Phuket Patong bar girls & things to do and fun: Sailing Cruising & Boating

Charter a yacht and travel away.

To do this is simple but costs quite some money, the question here is do it dry or wet. There are plenty of boats, ships and cruisers on the market and the best is to take it on a wet lease if you don't already know the area around especially in the Phang Nga Bay and west-coast area.
On the island are several marinas, one is big enough for super-yachts, that is Yacht Haven Marina at the northern tip of the island.

Kings Cup Regatta starts at Kata Beach on Phuket's west coast.

Since the area is not as large many villages and beach resorts are around, it is easily possible to stop somewhere for dinner or whatever.

Although a white sandy beach is not easy to find the waterfronts are rather variants of yellow I really like both what I don't want is gravel and that's not here anyway. In south Thailand there is no much difference and in between are limestone boulders and sometimes granite but also rarely.

What makes cruising with the sail boat special interesting are the hundreds of islands in the Phang Nga Bay Krabi plus Trang Archipelago all the way down to the south west with the Tarutao Islands and back to the north along the Thailand west-coast until the border to Myanmar (Burma) at Ranong and Kawthaung the former Victoria Point of the British.

Within this part of the Indian Ocean better known as the Andaman Sea everything if quite ok thank's to the infrastructure the Thais have been building up in the past decades there are also no pirates around. If you are a bit skeptical and want to be on the absolute safe side between the Limestone Islands make a wet lease and sleep in the cities along the way.

The most popular for boating are longtail boats which are the "workhorses" on the water the main difference to the outboard speedster is they are more narrow built and have a totally different engine at the back which much more simple less powerful cost less and makes exponentially more noise since non has a muffler.

The reason is there is at least once per week a pirate story in the news.

Although the subject are almost always some commercial ships such as tankers and fisheries plenty of criminal activities are going on usually related to smuggling. Other subversive activities are made by the mad Islamist which are strongly strongly related to smuggling of diesel from Malaysia it's just similar to drug and people trafficking.

South Myanmar is a diving and sailing destination from Phuket since there is almost no touristic and cruising infrastructure, it only works when starting in Thailand. The area behind the border means north of Ranong / Kawthaung is a pristine one with around 1000 islands all the way up to Myeik.