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November 22, 2005
An important day
Today is a really important one. A NewsAsia TV interview (their footprint reaches all the way to Dubai) followed by a meeting with the committee of the prestigious Singapore Royal Yacht Club to talk about the possibility of storing Moksha there until the next leg kicks off in May.
There aren't too many loose pieces of land knocking around Singapore that we can just plonk her, and certainly no grass roots boat clubs like the Bayview Yacht club (San Francisco) or Dinah Beach Yacht club (Darwin, Australia) that will take us in with a smile and a beer for handshake as welcome. Everything here is hard-nosed, efficient, and the bottom line is money. No room for scroungers, which I guess rules out Expedition 360!
In fact every single square inch of space seems taken on this tiny island. So just finding 8 cubic metres to plant her tiny frame I can see being a challenge. Fingers crossed for the meeting today. The email I had back from the committee just a few hours (not weeks like anywhere else) from sending in my initial proposal sounded like they're were open to the idea 'in principle'. So we'll see.
Moksha is currently being shipped from Dili, East Timor courtesy of Perkins Shipping out of Darwin, and should be here this Sunday 27th. It'll be good to see the old girl again after yet another extended period of isolation in a storage shed in some far-flung corner of the earth. I feel the expedition will also be complete again with her bring up the rear and being part of the family again.
Posted on November 22, 2005 8:37 AM