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Hi Peter, I have lived in Singapore for 11 years and have made at least 30 trips thru the Indonesian Island on my own and friends boats. I had no problems what so ever. There is approx 150 boats on the darwin / bali / langkawi rally this year... http://darwinbalilangkawi.com/ no life threatening problems... a few stolen fishing rods and outboards perhaps so in someways there are similarities to the ICW... You can also have a look on the ssca website to see what problems boaters face http://ssca.org/cgi-bin/pagegen.pl?pg=home&title=Home Peter you wrote "I am sick of the press distorting the known dangers, and I'm sick of dreamers not doing their bloody homework." on this part i totally agree with you. BTW register your EPIRB with the Australia Govt if cruising in S/E Asia http://beacons.amsa.gov.au/Buying_and_registering/index.asp Cheers John Seahorse 52 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs