Wind Powered Cargo Ships and Arriving in Malaysia
Off the AS Carelia at Port Klang in the early hours of 6 January, a US$300 port-agent bill, then the one-hour Komuter train into Kuala Lumpur.
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Tropical Storms and Piracy Warnings
A piracy warning faxed to the bridge off East Timor, a tropical storm in the Timor Sea, and the run down the Malacca Strait towards Port Klang.
A Rock n' Roll Christmas (of the non-musical variety)
Christmas aboard the AS Carelia: dinner on Christmas Eve in the crew's mess, then gale-force winds off the Whitsundays that threw us out of bed.
New Zealand
Auckland and Tauranga aboard a container ship: 24 hours in port, twenty crew, meals with the officers, and the Rena's oil still on the rocks.
The AS Carelia: A Freight Adventure
Boarding a container ship at Brisbane for 6,800 nautical miles to Malaysia — then the only vessel taking passengers from Australia to South East Asia.