We are presently anchored at Koh Rang Yai, an island off the east coast of Phuket. Tomorrow we will move to Boat Lagoon Marina, just a couple of miles from here. Our 21st season of global cruising is now coming to an end.
This is only the second time during all these years that we are returning to a familiar place for our 3 months haul-out. The only time it has happened before was in 2004 when we returned to Deltaville in Virginia.
At the beginning of this season our plan was to end it in Turkey in the Mediterranean, where we started our international cruising in 1991, but the escalation of Somali piracy crashed that plan.
However, we are quite happy to be back in Phuket and, best of all, we know by previous experience most of the players in the shipyard and about things to do and not to do in Phuket in general. It is easy to return to a familiar place, see a previous blog.
We will now undertake the two major boat projects that we didn’t do last year: lay a new teak deck and pull out both masts for service.
Time for a vacation back home in Finland.