captnhoy

How quickly this has become YET another lets bash Thai Airways thread.

............ But stop the moaning, whinging and complainaing here as if Thai Airways personally owes YOU something!

I thought we were simply reporting. As consumers. NOT being duped by a so called promotion and lame proclamation to actually compete in the marketplace. Just calling them on their bs. They owe it too themselves and their employees to stay in business. They owe me nothing. I'll vote with my purchase.

Finally I decided to buy Lowrance, new HDS unit:

http://www.lowrance.com/en/Products/Marine...Specifications/

it is compatible with Navionics maps, so I ordered 31XG for Thailand.

Thanks to all for help!

There are SO many products to choose from, and places to buy from - perhaps you can say more about the price of this unit, where you are buying it (local shop? or internet?) and what about install?

Good for you - stepping up to research and making an informed decision.

The Thai helmsman cert you require for boating, Do they execpt over seas cert's as I have a NZ Boatmasters cert. and vhf licence

You'll find out soon enough. They don't give a hoot about your NZ certificate OR vhf license.

They accept cash. And be prepared to quote the actual 5500 baht price when they tell you it's 10,000 baht.

Here are some tips based on my own experience here.

You mentioned possibly bringing your current boat as household goods. Do that if you can. There is a tax free allowance for household items up to a certain amount. Find out what that is. Paying import duty on the boat you like could be better than buying a boat. It sounds like you know the boat and that you are satisfied with it. I'm not sure that boats overall are any cheaper here. Certainly not in Phuket with all the western brand names being imported.

For price comparisons, consider this - off the shelf marine electronics in Thailand are double the price of the same item in the western world. When you question that, the Thai dealer always pleads import and VAT. Those taxes combined are 15%. Not 100%.

The point is, if you've been thinking about upgrading that vhf or sounder, etc, etc, - do it before you come here and pay the real retail price.

As another point of reference, a friend of miine recently bought a 4 year old 2nd hand Zodiac rib center console with a 40 hp Johnson outboard. He paid 300,000 baht total and that included a trailer.

One of the main things that I would consider is how big a motor do I need and can I afford a 4 stroke outboard. I have not owned one but the stories of reliability and fuel economy never end.

I have a liveaboard trawler here in Phuket.

When searching for my dinghy I came acrossed a Thai builder of fiberglass boats in Chumporn. I did not buy from him but he makes some boats that might be worth considering.

Let us know how it goes.

If you didn't see the fight, the Thai woman was declared the winner. JFC, I don't know if I can watch ever again.

I was so incensed at this that my wife had to jai yen me. Cheatin barstewards!

I don't know wether to credit Thai culture refusing to allow a farang to win, or chalk it up to fighting is just plain crooked.

I hope it's the latter. I fear it's the first.

the judging between Thai and foreigner fights actually tends to be a lot fairer here in general compared with a lot of countries where the home fighter will get a bias. The reason is most pople in the crowd are betting on the fights and won't accept losing money on a bad decision, there were a lot of very angry people in the stadium yesterday that the Thai girl got the decision and all of them were Thai.

I appreciate your insight as I'm just the occaisional fan and rarely see them live. I did say that if I'd been there somebody would have probably punched ME i was so incensed by it. I later wondered if the outcome was about gambling.

The details that you share are encouraging - changing the results, suspending judges.

Thanks!

Sorry for the lack of reference detail. Like names, what channel etc. I did a search on sport news and came up with nothing on these results.

I watched Muay Thai on tv in Phuket on Sunday afternoon.

Pretty ordinary at first. Then I see that the next fight is a woman from Canada against a Thai woman.

I do stay tuned and watch the fight.

After round 1, the warm up round for everyone, this Canadian was winning big time. Big, hard connecting punches and quite a number of them. It may have been the 3rd round where the Thai woman was clearly saved by the bell. 10 or 15 more seconds and she would have lost to a KO imo. Several times in the fight she was nearly down, clearly dazed by the beating. Other than a kick now and then, she did little to the western opponent. The overall theme was her getting the shit kicked out of her

OK so what?

If you didn't see the fight, the Thai woman was declared the winner. JFC, I don't know if I can watch ever again.

I was so incensed at this that my wife had to jai yen me. Cheatin barstewards!

I don't know wether to credit Thai culture refusing to allow a farang to win, or chalk it up to fighting is just plain crooked.

I hope it's the latter. I fear it's the first.

a cunning linguist for sure!

I will note the two of them were almost the exact same age.

So maybe there were some V.N. war era joint experiences

and memories connecting them.

That's right - back when they were teenaged lovers

wind has been blowing so no reports.

slackjawchef: a daisy chain is a rig used to attract fish to you lure bait etc. It is a number of artificial squid/lures with the last one having a hook, some have hooks on each squid.

Like we would use a flasher for salmon trolling???

Could you please post a picture, of a daisy chain..... Are they rigged like herring jig. or in line... Do you use a downrigger??

Thanks

Since you make reference to salmon gear, a daisy chain looks much like a line of hootchies, usually strung out behind a "winged torpedo" - called a bird. The last lure in the line has the hook. This whole rig is topwater. I just tried it a couple of times recently with no results yet, but it's what the charter boats use here fishing out of Phuket.

Great Pics!

Good catchin too!

I've also found that if I'm not catching, sometimes I can trade a beverage for some fish from the locals.

I would like to join in and sent you a pm about that.

CH