German sailor and daughter impressed with Thais after ocean rescue

 

Picture: video screenshot

 

TRANG: -- A German yachtsman caught in heavy seas after his boat developed engine trouble had nothing but praise for the Thai people who helped rescue him on Monday.

 

Jens Kroll, 50 and his daughter Thessa, 13, were on their way back from Satun to Krabi when the trouble began off the coast of Trang, reports tnamcot. 

 

He weighed anchor  and radioed for help. The seas were high and it was a scary experience.

 

A fishing trawler called Thanorm Thalee 8 came to his aid and towed him to shore where a repairman spent two hours trying to repair the engine to no avail.

 

Local authorities then arranged for a long tail boat to tow the Nuku Alofa vessel the rest of the way to its home base in Krabi.

 

Mr Kroll enthused about the help he and his daughter had received: "We are very happy with all the help we got in these difficult circumstances. The fishing vessel refused to accept any money for the tow despite me being willing to pay. And the repairman refused to charge us when he couldn't repair the engine.

 

"I would also like to thank the authorities for all their help in getting us back to base," he added.

 

Mr Kroll spend around six months of the year in Thailand and six months working in his native Germany.

 

Source: tnamcot

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-10-26

 

NICE! 

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Edited October 26, 20169 yr by ubonjoe
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Good to hear, you can be extremely vulnerable on a sailing vessel with no engine, close to shore with the wind in the wrong direction...

 

Well done Thailand...

Saved his kid and himself and he is impressed. Big of him.

Compliments to the Thanorm Thalee 8 !!

 

What I have problems with is how the authors always try to make it a nationalistic angle...

 

in america, It would report two people rescued with the last thing mentioning who they were. The author would not try to get the people to say how great Americans are..it all has to do here with a fragile self image and low self confidence....

Edited October 26, 20169 yr by cardinalblue

2 hours ago, Paruk said:

On a sailing boat getting in trouble because the motor fails? On a Hallberg-Rassy Ketch (as it looks like) where you can go around the world with? What about using your sails? Even better, check the weather forecast before you go! Nothing bad about the Thai to say indeed, very friendly and altruistic attitude! But that German better learns to sail or sell his boat to prevent others from getting in danger again because of his incompetence. BAD SEAMANSHIP!

 

Yup and buy a simple engine which you can fix yourself or any engineer can fix. He couldn't fix it after 2 hours trying, is that the engineers fault or the wrong motor to bring?

this is the type of story i like to see.  For those second guessing engine supply &lt;deleted&gt; is all i can say.  Someone has not been yachting.

What I have problems with is how the authors always try to make it a nationalistic angle...
 
in america, It would report two people rescued with the last thing mentioning who they were. The author would not try to get the people to say how great Americans are..it all has to do here with a fragile self image and low self confidence....

Ditto. Exactly.

Why wouldn't they be impressed? Did Thailand just launch their maritime rescue service or something? This story should get filed with the 'Taxi Returns Money Left in Cab' and all other pat-on-the-back reports.

The only worry is why the services didn't want their money? Perhaps the cameras were rolling? Go ahead and take it!

2 hours ago, Paruk said:

On a sailing boat getting in trouble because the motor fails? On a Hallberg-Rassy Ketch (as it looks like) where you can go around the world with? What about using your sails? Even better, check the weather forecast before you go! Nothing bad about the Thai to say indeed, very friendly and altruistic attitude! But that German better learns to sail or sell his boat to prevent others from getting in danger again because of his incompetence. BAD SEAMANSHIP!

 

Yes, this could well be a HR42, refurbished. They originally came with Volvo Penta engines.

Very seaworthy boats those, semi longkeeled.

 

Couldn't have been that much of a sea though, since there apparently were no problem with towing.

 

Still, pretty swell service extended by the Thais involved.

4 hours ago, Paruk said:

On a sailing boat getting in trouble because the motor fails? On a Hallberg-Rassy Ketch (as it looks like) where you can go around the world with? What about using your sails? Even better, check the weather forecast before you go! Nothing bad about the Thai to say indeed, very friendly and altruistic attitude! But that German better learns to sail or sell his boat to prevent others from getting in danger again because of his incompetence. BAD SEAMANSHIP!

And who are you to judge hes seamanship ? as far as I know (I guess) he sailed that ketch from Germany to Thailand years ago....!?!?!

Edited October 26, 20169 yr by off road pat

5 hours ago, melvinmelvin said:

 

Yes, this could well be a HR42, refurbished. They originally came with Volvo Penta engines.

Very seaworthy boats those, semi longkeeled.

 

Couldn't have been that much of a sea though, since there apparently were no problem with towing.

 

Still, pretty swell service extended by the Thais involved.

... was also asking myself, why he was trying to anchor instead heading for the open sea - a HR42 should easily manage rough sea

on the other hand, on a 42 feet ketch he was really "undermanned" with his -most likely- frightend daughter

 

 

- but that doesn't diminish the Thai giving help for nothing and no cure/no pay. Shows that even around pirate island Jungceylon there are some Thai showing the positive side of "Thainess" !

I've been helped a couple of times at Thai seas and my experiences vary from incredibly friendly to total rip offs. Without speaking fluent Thai it's just better to keep your engines very well serviced and check the weather reports.

Great in-depth interview indeed...