Yacht Haven Marina
Jackamy
Paul & Derry Harper
Mon 20 Dec 2010 11:47
08:10.209N 098:20.430E
Monday 20th December
The anchor held all night until we picked it
up around 6 am to start to make our way along the coast. We had a good trip
round, it only took around 5 hours so we were at the marina by 11:00. The views
on the way were spectacular, we could see the sheer cliffs in Phang Nga Bay in
the distance and it all looked so inviting. It's a shame that we can't spend
more time sailing around the islands instead of being cooped up in a marina but
unfortunately we have a long list of jobs to be done. The list consists of
repairing the freezer, replacing the damaged teak, mending the fibre-glass,
varnishing the name plate and cockpit table, sorting out the mainsail and batons
as well as other odd jobs.
The island in Phang Nga
Bay
We were all a little on edge when entering
as there have been so many reports of people running aground on a number of
sandbanks. Thankfully we had no trouble and made our way into our berth in this
huge marina that has enough space for I think around 200 boats.
Phuket Yacht Haven
Marina
We've been here almost 2 weeks now as our
job list grew quite considerably and we haven't managed to see much other than
the marina. However, we did hire a car to drive down to Phuket Town to sort out
our Indian visa's and whilst we were down there the kids caught a ferry back to
Phi Phi to see two of Amy's friends from university who left Phuket the day we
arrived. Paul and myself did plan on doing a bit of sightseeing around the town
but soon discovered there wasn't all that much to see, so instead we got
cracking with our jobs. The kids arrived back a few days later and then helped
us with the jobs.
Health and safety
Amy and Jack off to the ferry
in a tuk-tuk
The marina staff have been fantastic with
us, as well as the staff at the only bar and restaurant close by. They have even
stayed open until the early hours of the morning on more than one occasion for
Amy and her friends. The tourism board laid on a welcome party for the whole
rally at the restaurant which was a great evening that ended in Thai 'stick
dancing'. Two women sit on the floor about 2 metres away from one
another with two bamboo sticks, they then move them simultaneously in and
out to the right and left to the music while two people dance in and
out of them. Amy had a go and after a minute or two of having her feet trapped
between the sticks she got the hang of it, just in time for the music to pick up
pace. It was great fun, to watch anyway!
The dancers
The stick dance
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