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Assalamualaikum,

Yup my seventh post for this blog, so for this time i want to share a little bit rare experience I got last weekend.

Do you ever heard wind surfing?? Well I just did an expedition for about 50 KM from ALAM to PD by using only laser wind surfing..

Why I called it rare ? cause after few years im here this is my third time sailing with laser. For some reason we couldn’t have a training to handle laser.

What is laser?

Laser is a sailboat, mainly used for wind surfing for sport and recreation. In a laser we have a sail, a boat, one set of boom (for the sail), rudder, tiller, and a centre board.

Okay a little bit knowledge on laser rope rigging.

For basic rigging we’ll used 6 different ropes. If I’m not mistaken 5 of them are rigged just to control the sail. Hahaha if im wrong you can just check up at the link at the bottom of my post to find out more.

Back to the expedition

As per plan, Cyclone Break club plan this expedition to the Rating students exposed them to kayaking from ALAM to Pulau Pokok Asam in Prt Dickson. But there was election day, so they took a leave and couldn’t join this expedition. So Bassyir and me left as participants. Not to forget our beloved instructor JJ Zanggi and some officers.

We started our journey at 3 afternoon on Friday at ALAM Boathouse. We faced some difficulties at the beginning mostly to find wind direction and to set our course. Hahahaha we keep on return to shore several times before we made it to sail to the sea.

We have head to the sea first before we can head the island. Guess what it went well and Alhamdulillah no capsized at all. We enjoyed the view between ships (tho we stayed on board for 12 months last year) hahaha.

Reaching the island another problem came. Ughhhh there no wind. I just steered the boat by current and wave. Very slow movement made me boring. But after all we made it reach the island thankful to Allah ease everything for us.

For went back to ALAM the trip was so challenging, because strong wind and high wave along the way.at first Bassyir steered the boat but we almost hit a fishing boat so I took over to save our boat. From there until 5km off ALAM jetty I was steered due to the weather and sea. Tiring but fun because the laser move fast tho I got some cuts but the speed make me happy hahahahaha. After that I hand over to Bassyir until boathouse.

I surprised with bassyir because it was first time to sail the laser and he managed it very. A round applause for him guys !!

It was so fun activities of course I really hope that more people will join activity like this.