Swaggie's wanderings
| Vessel Name: | Sir Swagman |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Seeker 42 |
| Hailing Port: | Pittwater, Sydney |
10 October 2013 | Na Jomtien, Thailand
Last Leg
The early start was moved to a late in the day one, calculating arrival times etc seemed to make this sensible. The weighing anchor again was problematic, taking some time to get fully raised and stowed with jamming in the hawse pipe the issue. The chain was twisted and jumping off the gypsy causing [...]
07 October 2013 | Koh Samui
Island Time
Koh Samui is a bigger island than I expected, not that I am sure what I expected, just that the expectation was smaller as far as islands go. We had anchored at the first spot that afforded some shelter and a chance for rest, but it meant that we would be on the ‘wrong’ side of the island for the [...]
06 October 2013 | Koh Samui
Gulf Wars
Now I know there were two Bushes that had done this before us, but they had the benefit of doing it from a nice comfortable, stable office. In one case having nothing more taxing to decide than how many is a Brazilian and whether a nucular device was called for, or in fact would work, if pronounced and [...]
03 October 2013 | Redang to Samui
Paradise Left and Lost
Raising the anchor proved to be a problem, we had been in such calm water that it had not thrown itself 'flat' in the well, so piled up and jammed in about every place possible on the way back in. Rob and I provided an immense amount of amusement to the fishermen as we tried to correct this. Eventually [...]
02 October 2013 | Redang
Handy Andys
The genset started leaking water into the boat, tracked down to an end plate on the heat exchanger that had cracked. We jury-rigged another plate out of some spare stainless I had lying around and used a new gasket that was in the spares kit. It worked, so the drinks could be kept cold again! It seemed [...]
01 October 2013 | Redang
Illegal Eagles
Now, I realise those keen enough to follow these ramblings closely (and perhaps you need to get out more, if that is truly the case) would note that we had checked out of More Lazier and were now going to stop at another part of the country, technically not permitted, in fact legally not permitted. Given [...]
Gulf Wars
This was the worst sailing to date, brutal conditions that hurt the boat and us a little, bruises being our trophy from moving about. Finally we got under the shelter of the island and started making decent speed, headed for the nearest anchorage and mucked about in pitch-black 3am conditions, using the radar, to find a good spot to drop the pick. Identifying a dredge and other types of boats nearby we found the spot, let go the anchor and slept. Waking up it was amusing to find what we thought were different boats were in fact combinations of fishing boats rafted up all around. Time to fix things, yet again.....
