How to Set Sail - Day Trip to Koh Yao Yai in Phuket Thailand With New Friends.
How do you get your sailboat ready for a day trip? We, and a group of friends, take off on a quick day trip to Koh Yao Yai in Phuket Thailand. We prepare the boat prior to leaving, check everything and raise the anchor to set off for the day. Good group of people for this weeks adventure. We are joined by Dean and Macus from Seychelles. Both just did an Indian Ocean crossing on a Bali 4.3 and then had to quarantine in Phuket for 14 days. Dean is a delivery captain with over 2 decades of sailing experience. It was a pleasure to have him aboard to teach us and to pick his brain. Macus was his engineer on the delivery crossing. It was his first major delivery and his first delivery was across the Indian Ocean! Kyle is from South Africa and is learning just like we are. He got stuck in Phuket during Covid and was originally here for marine training in the yachting industry. Finally Yen joins us, rather we join him on his newly purchased Fountaine Pajot Bahia 46. Yen, while also a noobie to sailing, has had the opportunity to get his boat out on the water and gain some experience sailing since purchasing it. Koh Yao Yai are 3 rock formations just off the island between the world famous Phi Phi islands and Phuket. While one formation is only a few meters tall, the other two go straight up out of the water and have a lot of green on them to create a stunning setting. Yen gets some stunning aerial views with the drone as I struggled to keep reception with mine and have problems landing it back on the boat for the first time. BTW, if you catch a drone, turn it upside down, it will automatically turn itself off....thanks Yen! Probably the single best thing about entering our sailing life has been all the new people we have meet. It is also very nice to have such a huge diversity of cultures. Learning the world is not only about going places and seeing them for yourself, but also talking to the people that are from there. As always, thank you for taking 20 minutes out of your day to watch.
