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Bruce, have you spoken with Áron again?

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On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:21:58 -0500, "Ernest Scribbler"
wrote:

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Bruce, have you spoken with Áron again?

No I haven't. He sailed off to somewhere.

I am in a marina at the north end of Phuket and most of the "anchor
out" boats stay in Chalong Bay, at the south end.

When I met him he was having some work done on the rudder post and I
suspect that as soon as he got some work done he went to Halloing.
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

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Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

I am in a marina at the north end of Phuket and most of the "anchor
out" boats stay in Chalong Bay, at the south end.


Man! She DOES have you isolated way up there! That a long way from the
girls on the beaches at Patong! There isn't hardly any civilization
showing up on Google Earth at the marina!

Which boat's yours? Nice yachts on the face dock...(c;

Doesn't look like you could get in much "trouble" in the jungle...hee hee.

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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:24:23 +0700, Bruce In Bangkok
wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:21:58 -0500, "Ernest Scribbler"
wrote:

http://www.meder.hu/

Bruce, have you spoken with Áron again?

No I haven't. He sailed off to somewhere.

I am in a marina at the north end of Phuket and most of the "anchor
out" boats stay in Chalong Bay, at the south end.

When I met him he was having some work done on the rudder post and I
suspect that as soon as he got some work done he went to Halloing.
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Typo: should read got the work done he went to Chalong.
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:00:15 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

I am in a marina at the north end of Phuket and most of the "anchor
out" boats stay in Chalong Bay, at the south end.


Man! She DOES have you isolated way up there! That a long way from the
girls on the beaches at Patong! There isn't hardly any civilization
showing up on Google Earth at the marina!

Which boat's yours? Nice yachts on the face dock...(c;

Doesn't look like you could get in much "trouble" in the jungle...hee hee.

The island is about 40 km long so it isn't a long trip. But I don't go
to Patang anyway. It is a real tourist trap and anything that they
have there I can get elsewhere cheaper. Or I could if I could.....

The jetties are A,B,C,D,E, from the South. I'm on C dock, the fourth
boat from the seaward end on the south side of the jetty. White canopy
on the front and a green tarpaulin aft of the mast.

This marina is the only one where yachts of any size can tie up so we
get some fairly nice boats here. I think that 12 foot draft boats, and
maybe even a bit deeper, can get up the channel at high tide.

The marina is off the highway to the mainland and you're correct there
isn't much but po' folks up here. Mostly Moslem and mostly share
croppers, fishermen and folks making outlandish wages working on
yachts.

I recently saw a help wanted sign for a local house builder -
unskilled workers 250-300 baht a day. The people who come around
saying, "wash your boat, Mister" want 500 baht.

Being a grouchy old man who speaks Thai and having a rather outspoken
Thai wife, the only people who stop by my boat are newbes who don't
know me :-)

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

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Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

Being a grouchy old man who speaks Thai and having a rather outspoken
Thai wife, the only people who stop by my boat are newbes who don't
know me :-)



Yeah, I can make out a little green from the tarp from way up in space.
Amazing technology, space photography.

When I was a sailor, our ship pulled into Naples, Italy and sat there
for 4 months servicing the fleet (destroyer tender, a floating
shipyard).

One of the guys I hung with was name Contino and his Italian parents
spoke Italian in the home, so he was right at home in Naples.

It was great fun. Here we were in our US Navy sailor uniforms sticking
out like sore thumbs in any bar/restaurant/store. Italians, especially
bar girls, would start making some derogatory remark about American pigs
or such in Italian. He'd let them go on and on for a while as they
worked it off their chests, then he'd speak to them in perfect Italian
and tell them exactly what he thought of them. The astonished look on
their faces as they ran away embarrassed was simply priceless....

We bought a lot of "stuff" in Naples with his help haggling over price.

Around the world in a 19' boat...
 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:04:20 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

Being a grouchy old man who speaks Thai and having a rather outspoken
Thai wife, the only people who stop by my boat are newbes who don't
know me :-)



Yeah, I can make out a little green from the tarp from way up in space.
Amazing technology, space photography.

When I was a sailor, our ship pulled into Naples, Italy and sat there
for 4 months servicing the fleet (destroyer tender, a floating
shipyard).

One of the guys I hung with was name Contino and his Italian parents
spoke Italian in the home, so he was right at home in Naples.

It was great fun. Here we were in our US Navy sailor uniforms sticking
out like sore thumbs in any bar/restaurant/store. Italians, especially
bar girls, would start making some derogatory remark about American pigs
or such in Italian. He'd let them go on and on for a while as they
worked it off their chests, then he'd speak to them in perfect Italian
and tell them exactly what he thought of them. The astonished look on
their faces as they ran away embarrassed was simply priceless....

We bought a lot of "stuff" in Naples with his help haggling over price.

I had a collage mate who's name was Pietro Pietro-Paula, from
somewhere in N. Italy. It was amazing the number of little Italian
restaurants where Italian was still spoken he could find in Miami.
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

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Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

I had a collage mate who's name was Pietro Pietro-Paula, from
somewhere in N. Italy. It was amazing the number of little Italian
restaurants where Italian was still spoken he could find in Miami.
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)



The New York ghetto Italians all moved to Miami that could, especially the
Mafia people. Hell, the Mafia were the ones who BUILT THE PLACE, just like
Las Vegas!