Tag:riverboat
The shack on the landing is a fuel depot for the longboats of the community. What I still fund curious is that ‘Slow Down’ is written in English. I only ever saw locals driving boats on the rivers. Maybe they determined ‘Melambatkan’ wouldn’t fit in large enough letters to be visible until it was too late. Or maybe they determined it was only English reading explorers that were speeding on the rivers.
Just like those bigger riverboats, the Soon Hong No. 7 carried a spare drive shaft and propeller. I still don’t know how they would have gone about changing that mid-river.
This is all well and good until a log escapes. You might not be able to see it in the image below, but at 100% you can see there is a cable that runs down the outside of both sides of the log raft. Dead center of the photo there are two men in a small boat trying to push a log that has slipped outside the cable back into the raft.
Three riverboats sit at the jetty near the mouth of the Batam Barang in Sarawak. With the survey over and the equipment shipped out from Kuala Belait, I had some leave accrued and decided to travel a little in the region. At high school I’d joined the school caving (spelunking) group. Every month or so a couple of the teachers would take 10 – 14 of us kids after school to explore caves in the Mendips – about an hours […]
