Short sail on Mattox Creek with Karen around marker # 4 and back.home.
Century Club: AJ Batcheller
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Back to the dock without getting too wet.
First sail of the season on Mattox Creek
I guess I could count this as 5 days on the water, but I’ll put the first 4 days in my back pocket in the unlikely event I need to qualify for Century Club 2024. On Friday, March 29th a friend helped me take down my mast and on Saturday I put some spikes on the top of the mast to discourage the Osprey’s from perching on it. I don’t dislike Ospreys but last year in addition to using my boat as a lookout they also used it as a latrine. Sunday another friend helped me step the mast. Monday I used an amazing product called Roll Off that pretty easily helped me remove the Osprey dropping from the boat. I also put my 3.5 HP outboard back on, and it started in about 10 pulls. Today I finished getting the boat ready to sail and decided to take her out. Got maybe a ¼ mile from my dock when it started raining. Down with the sail and motored back home. Not the first sailing of the season that I wanted but I did get out.
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Karen taking a selfie on our Sampan ride.
Sampan.
Our rice barge captain.
Commercial vessel on Mekong River / Delta.
One of the few "normal" boats I've seen in Southeast Asia.
Boarding our modified rice barge.
We ride on a rice barge in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam then take a short ride on a Sampan.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Boarding our boat to see the floating village.
Our captain.
The floating village.
Floating church in the floating village.
We visit a floating village in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Our captain
Bow of our boat.
Passing under a bridge on the Mekong River
A view of the boats from the Pak Ou Cave
A fisherman on the Mekong.
Traditional wooden boat ride on Mekong River, Laos to Pak Ou Cave.
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Longtail Boat ride on Pa Sak River Thailand
Monday, February 12, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Dinner cruise on Chaophraya River
Our captain
Chaophraya River
Stupa on Chaophraya River. Photo is sideways because of a stupa tourist not knowing how to take pictures:)
Chaophraya River.
Dinner cruise on Chaophraya River, Bangkok, Thailand
Friday, February 9, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Longtail Speedboat ride on River Kwai, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
Getting into a Longtail Speedboat.
Longtail Speedboat ride on River Kwai, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
Longtail Speedboats are powered by a car engine attached to a stick that is also the steering mechanism.
Longtail Speedboat ride on River Kwai, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Our captain
Exploring a canal
Another photo of the canal
Another long-tailed boat. Note the car engine on the drive shaft that also operates as a ruder.
We took about an hour boat ride on the Choa Phraya River and canals on a long-tailed boat. Very interesting watercraft. Essentially a car engine on a stick. Lots of boat traffic on the river generating lots of chop.
Friday, December 1, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Pirate Ship Cruise
Note the seals on the buoy
Off Capetown
Pirate Ship
We took a 1 hour cruise on a Pirate Ship leaving and returing to Capetown.