Hi Everyone,

  Just a quick note to say that Randal and I are now at the Royal Phuket Marina and will stay for about a week or so.  www.royalphuketmarina.com is the web address.  Our cruise here began with a stop at the fuel dock at Telaga Marina on Langkawi.  There was no one to catch our lines so I had to jump off the boat onto the dock, grab our lines with the boat hook and tie us up.  No problem.  That’s the short version.  Our second night anchoring at Rok Nok we caught a mooring ball;  but in the wind and swells the rope, probably intended for much lighter sailing boats broke at 11:30 pm.   Anchoring being impossible at that time we had to leave the anchorage and cruise all night to Phi Phi and anchor in the dark almost going aground. Whew!  That’s the short story.  We left there for Ao Chalong on Phuket where we had to climb up a pier because they had no real dinghy dock for yacht dinghies and we had to go ashore to check into Thailand.  That’s the short story.  The longer versions of these stories will come eventually with photos.  Our cruising weather has been good thankfully since we’ve had enough other adventures without bad weather.

Tomorrow we’ll start our touring of Phuket. 

Ru