sorayacat
| Vessel Name: | SORAYA |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Offshore 42 |
| Hailing Port: | Australia |
| Crew: | Brian & Soraya |
25 August 2018
24 August 2018 | Marina Island. Lumut Malaysia
17 April 2018
02 April 2018 | Patong sunset with departing cruise ship
18 March 2018
22 January 2018 | Phuket
10 March 2017
01 February 2017
08 December 2016
24 November 2016 | Phuket
14 October 2016
03 October 2016
30 September 2016 | Chalong, Phuket
23 September 2016
15 September 2016
29 July 2016
13 July 2016
12 July 2016
31 March 2016
19 March 2016
Recent Blog Posts
25 August 2018
Exciting day - life in Malaysia
Well back in the water, after all the work Soraya looks like a million dollars.
24 August 2018 | Marina Island. Lumut Malaysia
Nothing is Free
We finally made it back to Lumut & Pankor Marina Island.
22 January 2018 | Phuket
New years sailing.
We started the new year by picking up our long time friend Julius from Patong.
Similan Islands Andaman sea. Thailand
01 February 2017
Hi all
Got 2 month visa for Thailand with 3 1/2 weeks to go end of February.
The nth east monsoon has finaly settled in, so it was off up the west coast.
Most of our cruising so far has alway had a time limit to the passage, so it a great relief to have most of the work done & now we travel at our leisure.
The trip up the coast (120nm) done in day passages of 20-40nm
stopped over night some times an extra night, if we liked the place.
All the passage planning is done on an average of 5kts which means that day tipping of 4 to 8 hrs.
We got all the way up to the Burmese border then came back to the Surin Islands which are only 2-3nm from the border.
The next stop being the Similan Islands being 50nm south of Surin islands, so a long day.
The ocean at these islands is so clean 98% as good as Cocos Island. The islands here are geologicly different from the mainland,
The water is deep right up to the shore in most places & too deep to anchor. Plus a lot of rock(40-60m)
Both these island groups are national park with no services at all, a couple of the the islands have tent accomodation but mostly they are uninhabited, except some Rangers.
The photo is from the Similan group.
It nice to see some fish in the water spectacular colours on many, but much of the coral is dead, must be bleaching from global warming.
How ever there is abundant marine life if only in the parks.
The Asia fish drought has finaly ended on the way up north caught
4 fish all Spanish makeral unfortunately the biggest one got away after I got it out of the water (a Fishermans tale of course it was the biggest one)
They were all caught in a 24hr period suspect something to do with currents & water temp.
Tonight we leave for Patong(Phuket) it a 55nm trip will leave some where between 9pm & midnight.
Trying to sail as much as possible but the wind is not being very co-operative.
The Flintoff family is all fit & well Soraya pretty well but is not 100%
That it for now hope this finds you all fit & healthy & not to many extra kilos from the xmas festivities.
Got 2 month visa for Thailand with 3 1/2 weeks to go end of February.
The nth east monsoon has finaly settled in, so it was off up the west coast.
Most of our cruising so far has alway had a time limit to the passage, so it a great relief to have most of the work done & now we travel at our leisure.
The trip up the coast (120nm) done in day passages of 20-40nm
stopped over night some times an extra night, if we liked the place.
All the passage planning is done on an average of 5kts which means that day tipping of 4 to 8 hrs.
We got all the way up to the Burmese border then came back to the Surin Islands which are only 2-3nm from the border.
The next stop being the Similan Islands being 50nm south of Surin islands, so a long day.
The ocean at these islands is so clean 98% as good as Cocos Island. The islands here are geologicly different from the mainland,
The water is deep right up to the shore in most places & too deep to anchor. Plus a lot of rock(40-60m)
Both these island groups are national park with no services at all, a couple of the the islands have tent accomodation but mostly they are uninhabited, except some Rangers.
The photo is from the Similan group.
It nice to see some fish in the water spectacular colours on many, but much of the coral is dead, must be bleaching from global warming.
How ever there is abundant marine life if only in the parks.
The Asia fish drought has finaly ended on the way up north caught
4 fish all Spanish makeral unfortunately the biggest one got away after I got it out of the water (a Fishermans tale of course it was the biggest one)
They were all caught in a 24hr period suspect something to do with currents & water temp.
Tonight we leave for Patong(Phuket) it a 55nm trip will leave some where between 9pm & midnight.
Trying to sail as much as possible but the wind is not being very co-operative.
The Flintoff family is all fit & well Soraya pretty well but is not 100%
That it for now hope this finds you all fit & healthy & not to many extra kilos from the xmas festivities.
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