Yacht Haven Marina, Phuket , Thailand

We spent a few more days at Nai Harn anchorage and then went over to the eastern part of Ao Chalong bay and went ashore for dinner at one of the beach side dives. They had some live music and the place was packed. We are now back at Yachthaven for the past few days, doing cleaning and trying to resolve some of the same issues we had last time we were here.
The fridge is repaired and looks like it will be very durable and better than before.
The new cockpit table is almost ready and will be a very good addtion. We went into Phuket town on Tuesday and got lost in one of the original villages in Phuket town. The roads were nor designed for cars and getting out again was a bit difficult. We were looking for the Furuno dealer who had sent out my AIS unit to Bankok for repair. We did finally find him but when I fitted it, I found that it still didn't work. The tech came again yesterday and he could not get it to work either so he took it away again. I am asking for a replacement under warranty as it is less than a year old. We will have to see how that turns out.
We are having a new dodger, bimini and a full canvas awning made and the canvas guy has done his final measurements and a deposit has been paid. We should have the dodger fitted by early next week. We made some modifications to the original dodger which was designed to be retractable but as we never once in five years retracted it, we thought that a fixed dodger would work much better for us. I moved some struts around and I think the new set up will be a much stronger improvement.
The bow thruster has also been acting up again but with help of some other yachties and some new relays and switches it is again retracting as it should.

This is a short video taken from up the mast with a GoPro Hero 3 video camera. The resolution is amazing though I don't know if  the file will be converted and lose resolution when uploaded. I apologize for the amateurish editing but these DV editing programs are a bit tricky and I need to do a bit more work with it to get this right.

I have some more photos to put on as well.

The weather has been beastly hot as the season turns to the monsoon but we have had no rain yet.We will stay here for another few days until we get all the work finished and then cruise around Phrang Na Bay for a week or two and then go back to Langkawi in Malaysia.

Beach side bar in Ao Chalong

Lost in the Hong The streets were barely wide enough for a small car

sunrise Ao Chalong, Phuket

leaving Ao Chalong