With the tropical depression working its way closer to the Sunda islands, winds were expected to strengthen and the sea state to be untenable if not safely tucked away inside a safe anchorage.
PREPARING A BOAT FOR HURRICANE SAILING
While the carpenters and stainless team work on the last details of our hard dodger, we’re busy fitting bolts, hoses and more bilge pumps inside our sailboat in an effort to minimise the damage that will happen if we broach in a typhoon during our passage across the Pacific to Alaska and Canada.