This is the message from our good sailor neighbour, Jeff Harris. I cut and paste from his email unto here.
His yacht name is : Rapscallion
On behalf of the Glenmarie Cove people, I would say it is the experience of it that is the most valuable of all and who knows, in the near future, you will be just whre you wanted. And you might even captains a team of 100% GC in another event.
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Hello All
I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who sent me the cared with good wishes prior to the race.
Cathy and I are now back in Glenmarie Cove and I just spent the day recovering from an at times exciting, enjoyable, frustrating, tiring but extremely satisfying sailing experience. The following from Asianyachting web site sums it up well:
Well what a marathon. Only sailors with allot of stamina on and off the water should compete on the Raja Muda Regatta. Sailing through the night, finishing in the early hours off the morning, consuming copious quantities of alcohol, raging around the night clubs at the stopovers, then going out and race again with little or no sleep for a week is why this event is called the "Most challenging regatta in Asia". This behaviour is normal on the International sailing scene and anyone looking for a Asian holiday with a difference, where they can get involved with some sailing activities should not go past Malaysia as the Raja Muda Regatta beckons each November. World cruisers are especially welcome as the island hopping nature of the regatta was specially designed with them in mind, to showcase the west coast islands and enjoy some good ole Malaysian hospitality.
The Rapscallion went well, the team were great (despite the combined age!), no major mess ups, nothing got broken and we placed seventh overall in class out of ten boats. Not a momentous result but the fun of the whole thing left everyone happy at the end and the parties made the event, particularly as Cathy and two other wives joined us. We didn't make the night clubs - those were left for the youngsters. Our tactical decisions in the passage races, always partly experience and partly luck, didn't work out quite right. After the first night we thought we had done well, at dawn lots of boats were behind and only a couple with higher handicaps could be seen in front, then with twenty minutes to go till the line the wind totally died and the tide took us swiftly sideways. We finished a painful two and a half hours later, while watching slower boats catch up as they found some wind closer to the shore. Second race, almost a repeat, although the no wind event happened a bit earlier. The Penang to Langkawi leg was fast and furious towards the end with 25 - 30 knots of breeze on the beam. All of the harbour races were pretty close but our competition was just a bit faster. Having said that we were against an out and out racing yacht and two others that had bought in professional crew. Hey ho! To add to all this we tried our luck in the trishaw race in Penang, not shure who won that one as the rules seemed to go out of the window!
A few pics are attached.
Jeff
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