The plan was to stop by in Singapore. Which we ended up not doing. I would have loved to see the land where they turn garbage and waste into artificial land to build buildings on. What a sci-fi machine it must be that does that sort of thing. Anyways, we got to drive through Singapore strait which is one of the most trafficated straits in the world. It was 18 hours of traffic separation scheme where you had to be a little extra alert in the driving. Me and the captain were taking turns doing 6 hour watches. 6 hours on 6 hours off all the way to Hong Kong. One night at midnight when I came up to the bridge and I was given a handover of the watch from the captain. We were just by Singapores approach. Captain said that the boat in front of us is crazy. “He have been f*****g killing people tonight. He drove over at least three fishing boats”. I suppose he was exaggerating. There were boats everywhere and I had to navigate and maneuver with care in the dark for the next 6 hours. But it felt good and I did it well. The captain asked me in the morning if it was as bad as I thought. “Piece of cake”, I replied. But I must admit that it had kept me on my toes.

Once we got out from the strait and headed towards Hong Kong we got to know that there was a storm on its way. We had to deviate from our passage plan and head towards the Philippines to avoid the storm. We slowed down in order to save fuel. Something we had to do in order to make it last all the way to Hong Kong as we now had to go a much longer way. We managed to avoid the bad weather pretty well but we got to feel some waves anyway. One day we had wave heights up to around 4,5 meter which made the boat roll around a bit. But it was fine. At least we had normal steering now and could use the autopilot.