“Why couldn’t the turkey eat any Christmas dinner?”
“What do Snowmen like to do at the weekend?”
It took Elaine the entire day to complete the cleaning, while Roy ensured all our routes, tracks and waypoints were refined. It’s only on a yacht, though, that your cleaning chores are interrupted by the delightful sight of fish darting around in the water right outside the porthole of your head (aka bathroom)!
Our day ended in the best possible way; a wonderful photograph of Keenan and the family in the cockpit of the A320 he was about to fly from Phoenix to Detroit and the family were along for the ride. It was his last flight as a First Officer, since he starts his Captain training on New Year’s Eve; what a great way to bring in 2022! We are so very proud of him and his beautiful family! Congratulations sweetheart!
Yesterday Roy was up early to dinghy ashore for his walk, while Elaine took a well deserved break from everything, staying in bed for most of the morning.
After lunch, we decided to undertake another reconnaissance mission across Chalong Bay in search of the Phuket Yacht Club and to enquire as to whether or not we could use their dinghy dock, primarily as the best option we could find to complete our provisioning and get everything back to Paw Paw with the least amount of hassle. Thankfully they were very accommodating.
Then, while Roy cooked dinner, Elaine cleaned the helmstation, the only task she had planned for the day and, with that, completed all the detailed cleaning tasks before our departure. Fortunately Mother Nature ensured the decks were cleaned without any intervention required from ourselves!
Today, our day started with a nice long walk along the beach before breakfast and before Roy started a number of his regular maintenance activities, including cleaning the air-conditioning filters and closing the throughhulls, as well as checking the saildrive oil, engine oil, filters, etc, on both engines and running them as well as the generator to ensure everything was in working order.
However, after a rolly night at anchor, her early rise and her exercise walk, Elaine needed a morning nap before she could somewhat function for the day. Clearly all the activities of the past week had caught up with her. Regardless, she still managed to complete some of our departure documentation.
This evening, while Elaine remained onboard to weather her “off day”, Roy dinghied ashore for a frosty and to catch up with a few cruising friends.
Answers to the jokes: “Because he was stuffed!”
“Chill out!”
