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January 4 - Royal Phuket Marina
Baraka waited for high tide, then threaded our way along the mangroves in a dredged channel. We had our track from last year, which was helpful. Much of the way there was less than 2 feet under the keel, and in one spot we read zero (with our prop wash stirring the silt up), but we slid in ok.Royal Phuket gave us a slip at the superyacht dock so we are nestled in with the big boys. Dave rewired our electrical cable to fit a huge 50 amp plug. One settled, we dug the bicycles out from the bilge, and re-assembled them. The shortcut to boat lagoon is closed off with barbed wire, so we have an easy 10 minute bike ride instead. We loaded the stinking mountain of dirty laundry on the handcart and strapped that to the back of a bike as a trailer. This worked badly - the handcart would develop a wobble side to side, oscillating wildly and eventually spill over. Oh well, good in theory.
Dave took our quadrant stop in to be rewelded, and the stanchion we bent leaving Rebak. Our autopilot is back, hopefully repaired.
