Passion for Cruising

Underway at 7.45am, a lovely breeze 14kts true, 18kts over the sails, we are moving------yes at 8 to 9 kts. 50 miles to Lanta where we will overnight. It is so good to be afloat and have breeze with us. A good sail!! It is now the 3rd and we had a ten minute sail before getting caught in a fishing net stretched out for about 200 mtrs, but with only one buoy marking it. This usually means just a trap under the buoy, but no just under the surface were a row of tiny white floats attached to a fine gill net. We were held fast by the top line, so we spent a long time trying to free it all to no avail. Finally we had to cut that line and we were free. This is sad for the fisherman, but he should have proper floats that are visible!!!
The rest of the 60 miles to Tarutao we saw hundreds of bits of styrene foam and plastic bottles all attached to traps below, some have a tiny flag or bit of black plastic to show the position. We are supposed to see all these and miss them. This is not easy in any chop at all!! We managed to avoid all these and arrived at Tarutao to anchor down at 5pm. We were totally tired from watching every foot of water all day long. A nice quiet anchorage for the night, no one else at all.