Hua Hin Forum

Good luck! I will certainly be down when you are up and running. Are you likely to be able to be in a position to store private craft (if you are I might well resurrect my interest in buyinig a 2nd hand Hobie!). I have just returned from the beach sailing my Laser and met an Ozzie gent interested i...

That's great news.... I'll be down to see you as soon as I get there. At 6'2 and 220, the Laser is a little " tender " for me. I know the water is shallow, but any possibility of storing a Star class keelboat... It draws about 36 38 inches.. Hi Roderick I was intending to buy a small crui...

I'm 61 yrs and hadn't sailed a Laser for 35 years but after a few capsizes it soon came back. Came 9th in the Thai National Championships last month!

Good luck! I will certainly be down when you are up and running. Are you likely to be able to be in a position to store private craft (if you are I might well resurrect my interest in buyinig a 2nd hand Hobie!). I am trying to contact the owner of the plot behind mine as it is derelict and I could ...

STEVE G wrote:

...and would repeat the comment that Thai wives are not drawn to bobbing about getting sunburnt.

Show them this picture of HM the King sailing a Finn dinghy in the 1960's.

Actually the King is sailing an International OK that he built himself.

I noticed the same thing. Last year I bought myself a second hand Laser from Varuna in Pattaya and an Optimist for my son from a company in Bangkok. I entered the Hua Hin Regatta last August and again this May. Fabulous organisation by the Royal Thai Navy and the Yacht Racing Association of Thailand...