Langkawi, Dinghies!

So this is what the Honwave dinghy looked like just before it got the heave ho. We managed to get ashore at Kuah, Langkawi's main town, but on the way back to SD the smaller of the two clamps popped off and we were in danger of sinking or at least getting very wet. We decided that we would have to buy the first available dinghy even if it did not meet all our requirements. After all the first requirement is to float.

At Royal Langkawi Yacht Club, Kuah, there is a Yacht Shop where Paul agreed to sell us a new RIB Quicksilver 2.6 metre inflatable dinghy. It was too long, and did not fold up, but at least it was water tight. Until we put it in the water. Yes, our new two thousand pound (nearly) dinghy was leaking water in two places. I fixed the first leak around the towing eye, but for the second leak, around the tube and transom, the dinghy had to be returned. Fortunately we were loaned a courtesy dinghy. At last we had a new all floating, non leaking, white, hypalon dinghy.