It was with great relief and a little sorrow that we handed over ownership of the boat today at 2pm to her new owners, Sir Hersan and his friends at the Brunei Wind Surfing House. We are really genuinely happy to see her go to a good home with people from Brunei who will keep working on her and put her to good use. Tambasakan's new (Bruneian) name will be Cari Angin, meaning "Wind Seeker".
The fantastic news is, together with the sale of Tambasakan ($3000 Brunei dollars = US$2100), the amazing folks at the Royal Brunei Yacht Club raised another $1150 Brunei dollars for us which takes our total up to roughly US$10,000 - our target reached!!!!
We owe a huge debt of thanks to the members of Royal Brunei Yacht Club (Kay and Carolyn in particular) who have given us 120% hospitality and adopted both us and our cause - friends, hosts, sponsors, supporters and drinking partners... Wow. Thank you, and if you need any assistance sending in donations, please try the IDEA website at http://www.ideadeaf.org/sponsor_a_child/index.htm
In other news: we were given a tour of Brunei today, which happened by chance to be National Brunei Day. After attending the parade ground event where the Sultan oversees parading of all the official subjects, we got to see the various palacial grounds, mosques and water villages.. Lovely way to conclude our tour of duty here!
If plans continue on track we will be leaving Brunei in the morning. Our journey then goes like thus: Brunei - Labuan (ferry), Labuan - Kota Kinabalu (ferry), Kota Kinabalu - Sandakan (bus), Sandakan - Zambuanga (ferry), Zambuanga - Cebu (ferry), Cebu - Bohol (ferry).Keep that good will and good luck coming people!!!!
