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01/11/25 Sat.  Everyone is watching typhoon Tino forming in the Philippine Sea with the possibility it will head our way and hit Palawan.

03/11/25 Mon. It looks almost certain that Tino will make landfall in the north of Palawan, it has already caused a great deal of damage in Cebu. Divers checked our mooring and we doubled up our mooring lines. We hoisted the dinghy and lashed it down on deck and took down any awnings that may catch the wind. During the evening, the winds accelerated and we started to pitch up and down in the waves from the SW.

04/11/25 Tues. We had hardly any sleep last night, visibility was down to about twenty yards in torrential rain, the waves were approx. 1 metre high and we were pitching a great deal.  Some boats dragged, colliding with other boats and two were severely damaged, the mast coming down on one. By late afternoon, the worst had passed and things started to calm down.

06/11/25 Thurs. Now another typhoon is coming, this one is very big but the tracking shows it a little further north and looks like it will hit Luzon above Manila.

08/11/25 Sat. We went over to John's boat today to help with an engine problem.  His newly overhauled stbd engine will not start. neither I nor his mechanic James can figure out the problem at the moment.

09/11/25 Sun.  Over on John's boat again today.  Still no luck with the engine,  ran a compression test and reset the valve tappet clearance.  Injector timing is, in my opinion, out by a long way - perhaps I will have a look tomorrow when James is away on another job! Typhoon Uwan is now at the eastern coast of Luzon and the winds here are increasing, so it looks like tonight could be another sleepless one.

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