Mersoleil

Mersoleil is a 2010 Hylas cutter rigged monohull, an H46, built in Taiwan by Queen Long Marine. A bluewater cruiser through and through, she has carried Robbie and Bev more than 50,000nm around the world from 2011 to 2020. Mersoleil will be interviewing new owners in Ft. Lauderdale by spring 2020.

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Posted: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 - 22:20

I’m feeling a little better, but was no help on the water today and left Robbie to negotiate the hundreds of fishing boats nearly alone this morning before dawn. Each time we experience one of these

Posted: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 - 03:00

What happened to the update from Pangkor, where we were treated royally by James Khoo and his Pangkor Island Marina operations? I fell ill after only the first day of tours and festivities, spent

Posted: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 - 19:34

We've stopped for a few days at Port Dickson and have remained at anchor outside the marina to enjoy the privacy and a better breeze. Took a bus tour into Kuala Lampur yesterday, the capital of

Posted: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 - 22:12

Singapore is in the rearview mirror now and stopping there for two weeks was a marvelous choice! It's a not-to-be-missed destination and we marvel at the gutsy architecture, the kindness of the

Posted: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 - 15:53

We are loving Singapore. Arrived at Raffles Marina on 25th October and have been on the run nonstop. You know, we could sit on the boat and do emails and the other stuff of daily life.... but if we

Posted: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 - 19:48

One could run across a busy freeway. Or simply enter Singapore from the south as we did this morning. It would be much the same experience. With Manjit Singh preparing the paperwork and emailing it

Posted: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 - 19:36

It's a treat to be at Nongsa Point Marina. Several of our friends (but only a fraction of the rally group, a manageable number!) are here with us and we are enjoying shore power, delicious cuisine

Posted: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 - 19:30

After passing up an opportunity to stop overnight at the mouth of the Kumai River, Mersoleil turned right and sailed straight for Belitung, Teleg Kelayang, where amazing granite boulders decorate

Posted: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 - 21:03

Posted: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 - 03:00

This posting was delayed by a computer crash, another passage, watermaker failure and repair, and lack of Internet access..... Sorry for the wait. Well! The River tour up the Kumai and Sekonyer

Posted: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 - 19:38

Motoring up the Kumai River through Tanjung Puting National Park we just couldn't help feeling like we were part of a National Geographic filming session. I swear I could hear David Attenborough off

Posted: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 - 23:12

Yesterday we departed Karimunjawa after a wonderful, but brief, visit. More on that below. We sneaked off, only 15nm, to the NW to anchor off tiny uninhabited Pulau Kumbang and enjoy an evening of

Posted: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 - 14:40

21 September 2016 We passed a time zone, two days, two nights and about two hundred fishing boats between Kangean Island and Karimunjawa, where we arrived at 7:30 this morning. Actually, 6:30, as

Posted: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 - 16:41

OK, I was mistaken about the early morning departure, but we did leave Bali yesterday at 4PM. It made more sense to clear the coast in late afternoon daylight, sail open deep water all night, and

Posted: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 - 20:12

Mersoleil will depart Lovina , Bali tomorrow morning at o-dark-thirty. We'll head for Ketapang Bay, some 70nm N of here. Ketapang is not in our intended direction of travel but the charts show a huge

Posted: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 - 22:03

7 September 2016 We arrived this afternoon at Lovina Beach on the NW coast of Bali. Bali is a gorgeous island, stunning really, with its mountains, many of which are clearly volcanoes, rising

Posted: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 - 19:02

We'd like to be reporting to you that we arrived in Medana Bay and reunited with Sail Indonesia rally colleagues. but that's simply not how it happened. The trip to Medana Bay, sneaking up the west

Posted: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 - 00:18

As expected Mersoleil picked up speed on the downhill side after rounding the top of Lembongan. A breeze came along, too, and contributed to a 7-8kt run across the rest of Selat Lombok and we

Posted: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 - 17:33

Motoring back from Bali to Lombok across the Selat Lombok against a 5kt current... There's been no wind to help us and the south setting current is a constant here regardless of what the tides might

Posted: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 - 12:35

Selat Lombok, separating Bali from Lombok, is a busy place! Tankers and cargo ships pass north and south through here, ferries run constantly back and forth, this being the center of Indonesian

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