Well, it was too good to last.  A free (if dilapidated) marina berth walking distance from town.  The bad wiring finally set the lego pontoons alight; luckily extinguished just before the new 75 seat speed boat got caught. So I am quickly out of the place before anything else goes wrong and through the mangroves to Krabi Boat Lagoon Marina.  Where everything works but it is 25 kilometers from town.

I take on a Mexican crew.  No matter how much talking and messaging you never know until they are aboard.  I keep her for all of 48 hours, 47 too many!

Minor cosmetic work continues on the boat – just too much varnish to maintain. I feel like a holiday and want to go to Chaing Mai in northern Thailand.  The safe PH2.5 air index is a maximum of 50.  Chaing Mai is 183 as a result of crop and forest burning in Cambodia and Laos.

So I will have to think again…