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HDRIDER

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lovelomsak Gold Member

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I am no authority on this but I have sailed boats for years raced and cruised and just spent a lot of time on the water. It has been my experience that hardly nothing other than a collision between boats or hitting an object that is attached to the ground will damage a boat. I have sailed over logs and not a scratch. Every time I read one of these stories my blood boils. The owners abuse these jetskis running them up on the beach, then blame the tourist renting them.

Damage to the prop is the only area I can think of that any damage could occur while boat is underway and goes over something.

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I am no authority on this but I have sailed boats for years raced and cruised and just spent a lot of time on the water. It has been my experience that hardly nothing other than a collision between boats or hitting an object that is attached to the ground will damage a boat. I have sailed over logs and not a scratch. Every time I read one of these stories my blood boils. The owners abuse these jetskis running them up on the beach, then blame the tourist renting them.

Damage to the prop is the only area I can think of that any damage could occur while boat is underway and goes over something.

I've owned 2 jetski's over the years, worked on them myself a bit. Thad doesn't make me an authority either, but FYI jetskis don't have a propeller. They have an impeller. (hence the "jet" part of jet ski) which is enclosed inside the Jet ski. Very hard to damage unless dome debris was sucked in. I managed to do this once.

Usually in these scams the jet ski scum will claim some previous fiberglass damage is new damage. Fiberglass is very cheap to repair and a 500 baht job will often be met with a 5,000 or 10,000 baht cash demands and threats.

The beachings you see the jet ski operators do not only rubs paint and fiberglass off the bottom, is also sucks sand into the impeller chamber which "sandblasts" the impeller anytime you are in less than about 20-30cm of water with the engine running. Sand can also get into the cooling system this way. Even if the engine is shut off before they hit the beach, sand will accumulate in the impeller chamber, then the same sandblasting happens once they start it again. In both cases, damage is cumulative, and occurs over time.

"Thai men walking past the incident also joined in on the attack."

How typical. In any most counties this would read, "The attack ended when two men walking passed intervened and stopped it.)

Hope they catch these guys. Sad to say though it's more likely the same thing will happen that happened with Mr. Anwar in Phuket when the Tuk tuk driver beat him up. (See my avatar) The beach scum will just counter charge, the farang will have to pay a bribe, er..sorry, a "fine" to get out of jail then leave the country. Final score, one battered farang a little lighter in the wallet, some cops and beach scum a little heavier in the wallet, and back to scamming the tourists as usual for the beach scum.

Do yourself a favor, don't rent jet ski's in Thailand, anywhere, and don't use tuk tuk's in Phuket.

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maipenrai2010 Explorer Member

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I would politely inquire "yes sir, how much sir?" and then proceed to be escorted to my hotel (or any 3+ star hotel in the vicinity) to get the ripoff scum's money from my safe. I would joke around and back slap the entire walk to the hotel so as not to arouse any suspicions. Once safely there, I would walk straight into the manager's closed office and then contact police, tourist police, PDN, some Thai friends who aren't associated to naughty nightlife in anyway, and anyone else who would listen not connected to the jet ski business. At least I highly doubt I will be assaulted in the hotel lobby or in the safety of the manager's closed door office with all the CCTV cameras.

Like cockroaches, once the glare of the cam lights are shining, problems seem to vanish. Nobody up to no good enjoys evidence. I get this tip from a mate who is a WS tourist police officer. I asked him about the various paraphernalia hanging on the officers' belts (flashlights, cuffs, clubs, etc.). He only carries a camera and whenever there's a fracas, he opens the camera with flash activated and starts snapping away. Those up to no good react to the flash and scatter. Raising your voice, he claims, does little to help because Thais are impervious to loud noises as we all know.

Bottom line, do not get hot. Get into any decent hotel and seek protection first. You will probably find the safety needed and can then opt to leave Pattaya, and/or sleep in another part of town, and avoid that part of the beach for the next 20 years. :)

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