Yap to Singapore

We had an average conditions and a good run on the Nordhavn 40 from the island of Yap - through the Philippines and on down the South China Sea to Singapore. We left Yap at 1300 hours Friday, January 11 and arrived in Singapore 1600, Thursday the 24th of January. This was a total of 13 days and 4 hours. We burned almost exactly 800 gallons of fuel with both the main engine and gen set combined. We had a new toy on board, air conditioning, and ran the gen set each night to run the AC system.

The run from Yap to Singapore:
Distance run 2235 NM form the East side of Yap to the West side of Singapore.
We ran a total of 13 days 4 hours - 316 hours
Burned 800 gallons of fuel
Had an average speed of 7.07 knots
Burned 2.53 gallons and hour (with the gen set running about 10 hours each day)
Arrived in Singapore with a 120 gallon reserve -- this fuel would take us 360 miles at
1400 rpms.

It was a great way to end our 8500nm journey and three months at sea. We pulled into the Raffles marina after getting lost in the Singapore straits, I thought I could find the Raffles Marina from memory only to find that the Island has grown to the West about a mile. There is a new section of reclaimed land jutting out into the Malacca Straits that was not there four years ago and was not reflected on the charts. This delayed our arrival a little but after a few near misses with super tankers we found the harbor and were met by Jim Leishman and crew. After a night of talking old soldier with the arriving crew and doing our part to keep the bartender busy, we spent a day and a half changing oil, restocking food, fueling and generally just preparing the 40 for the second leg. The last day at the Raffles marina was spent going over charts and just lazing around the pool telling stories of the first leg..... there are many stories.

The next morning I helped untie the Nordhavn, shook hands with Jim and crew, pushed them out of the slip and watched them steam down river and out of sight.

My adventure had come to an end and theirs had just begun.

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