After a few days delay waiting for the weather to quieten down, we departed Sutera Harbour Marina at Kota Kinabalu just before 10:00 this morning. We motored the short distance of 13.5 nautical miles to anchor in a small bay protected from the swell near Sapangar Bay, 06 deg 05.085N, 116 deg 06.016E. The water here is relatively clean compared to a couple of sections we crossed inside Sapangar Island where there was a lot of floating rubbish, seaweed and spilt diesel... yeuk. When the engine gave a bit of a surge we suspected the worst and after anchoring Jon dived on the prop and removed a long piece of 4cm rope! At least it hadn't jammed the prop or caused any damage.
