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I should start by telling you I'm very very cranky this morning. =
Yesterday I made our first remote post from the boat via sailmail and =
I know I screwed up the position and it's somewhere near nigeria. I =
put the latitude and longitude coordinates on two separate lines in =
the email so it misinterpreted it. I know it's near Nigeria because =
Geojoey emails be back confirming the coordinates as it interpreted =
them and also tells me the country I'm in or nearest to.
I guess the reason I'm really mad is because I wrote the software so I =
should know how to use it. The upside is that I am now a user of my =
software so when one of our users is at sea and posts remotely and =
screws up the coordinates, I now know exactly how frustrated they're =
going to be. I need to get this coordinate thing very very right.
Anyway, on to more interesting topics....
We spent the night last night in Ao Nang bay which is a small town =
with lots of tourist shops and restaurants. It was nice to get back on =
land after being on the boat for 48 hours straight. I don't think I've =
mentioned this, but Tao (the boat we're on) is a 38 ft Leopard cat. I =
believe the boat was originally designed for charter work, so it's =
very user friendly. We have 6 people on board at the moment. Mom, Dad, =
my little sister, her boyfriend Derek, and Kerry and I. There are 3 =
double cabins, so she's at capacity right now, but we all get on =
really well so no worries about being cramped or anything. There is =
actually plenty of space.
Ao Nang was pretty cool. We hit a nice pub playing some great blues =
and ran through the cocktail menu a few times and got seriously drunk. =
Then we hit the tourist stores and bought a bunch of fake designer =
sunglasses and went to an Irish pub and had bangers and mash. ...as =
you do in Thailand.
The number of expats here is quite amazing. On Kamala Beach near =
Patong in Phuket over 2000 Swedes were killed when the Tsunami came =
through. There are little pockets of expats everywhere.
We are currently en route to Ko Mai Phai (Bamboo Island) where the =
diving is supposed to be great and I'm hoping to catch a few more fish =
there. We're motoring with the foresail up to give the engines a bit =
of a boost. The sea is fairly flat - about a 1 meter swell running.
When I get to an internet connection I'll fix that messed up post =
that's making my route look like I traveled via Nigeria.
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