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    Thai boats

    Recently, while visiting Pranburi, I was able to visit a small fishing village. Growing up in hillbilly land all we ever had was some fishing boats. The Thai fishing boats are just a bit different.



    I do not know anything about Thai boats, but for me they are fun to look at and dream...

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    I would get tangled up in the fishing nets.


    One of the bigger fishing boats.

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    Some fisherman heading back in after a long day. I was told that most of these guys are Burmese and never really leave the ship.


    Always working.

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    At least the police are always around.

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    Did you go to the other side of the river where they dry the squids, Hilly?

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    Back in the States I earned my living from boats - I worked as a Yacht Salesman, Sailing Instructor and Delivery Skipper. I've been working in offices and classrooms since I came to BKK. It's been a nice change, but I'm starting to miss the water!

    Thai boats are interesting. A lot of the fishing boats are built with atraditional frame on plank construction, rather than the western style plank on frame construction. Even though they have a superficial resemblence to western style boats, their constuction is totally different!

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    You'll have to explain the difference between the construction methods please Otherstuff.



    This one was being built on the other side of the river from where Hilly took his pictures.

    I have often wondered how well one of these boats would sail if it had a keel bolted on.
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    Traditionally, a lot of Asian boats were built starting with the keels & stems, but no ribs or stringers. Planks were then added using short wooden pegs as edge-nails. After the hull was complete, ribs and some other frame members would be added for extra strenght.

    That pic looks more like modern construction where the frame is built first and the planks are added as a skin afterwards.

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    Do you mean like this?


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    Here's a link that explains the different construction techniques a bit more clearly:
    http://www.naga-pelangi.de/Naga_2/english/index_e.htm
    It's about Malay boats, not Thai boats, but a friend who spent a lot of time in southern Thailand about 20 years back said he saw boats being built like this.

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    Here in Ban Phe, we get lots of Cambodian and Burmese workers on the fishing boats. Most of them are illegal immigrants l am sure. The police don't really bother with them. The Thais found the fishing industry too much like hard work and largely got out if it years ago, at least in this area.

    At the end of our soi, there is a little soi, where there must be close on 25 karaoke bars, l have never stopped to count them all. Most of these cater to the fishers, coming off the boats. They start strolling up the soi about 4 PM, stagger back around 4 AM. They have no rights as such. This was brought home to me a couple of months ago on my walk to the shop one morning. l turned into the top of the soi, to see a trail of blood, and l mean a trail, this was an unbroken stream of blood, all the way down the soi, then across the main street and back down to the boat. Who ever was stabbed, wnet straight back to the boat, at that time of noght there was no way of finding any medical assistance anywhere, anyway. l never heard if the fisher lived or died, but from the amount of blood lost, he could have easily bled to death.

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    Ban Phe was a fairly good display on the Thai fishing industry. lt is at the aquarium, on the western end of the bay. Shows a few different styles of boats, and it is free to look at them.

    Going the other way, east about 3 kms out of town on the coast road, there is a little fishing village. It has about 100 of the open dory style boats. These are lacquered, not painted, so the grain of the woodwork shows through. Quite handsome craft. A few people have stopped by to have alook at them. One guy was an Ozzie boat builder, so he wanted to look at how they were built. Someone else quite recently was interested in seeing if a sail could be installed. lf so, they were going to put in an offer to buy one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bwana Brad
    Here in Ban Phe, we get lots of Cambodian and Burmese workers on the fishing boats. Most of them are illegal immigrants l am sure. The police don't really bother with them. The Thais found the fishing industry too much like hard work and largely got out if it years ago, at least in this area.
    When I worked offshore, we would occasionally be approached by fishing boats that had engine troubles, injured sailors or in one case was out of rice (bartered against fish). In several cases we helped medevac sailors, although only if there was a real emergency. The captains were without exception Thai, and i believe the majority of sailors were Thais. We did once have a boat literally dumping a Burmese guy on our platform with a rather nasty gash in his right hand. He couldn't speak a word of Thai or English, and we were reluctant to send him ashore (by crew boat) as we didn't know if he was an illegal worker (in which case we could face problems with the authorities).

    Only after calling an Australian-Burmese friend of mine were we able to establish that he in fact did have a work permit and even had an agent picking him up at the port when he got to shore.

    The number of fishing boats in the gulf is truely amazing. On any given night the horizon would be full of lights in all directions.
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    This thread is very interesting to me. I don't know much a bout boat construction, but they built some of the large wooden rice barges near my home. I once saw one of the workers diving below the boat with a coke bottle, so that he could find a leak in the hull. It took me a while to figure out that he was watching how the air bubbles moved.

    I want to get me a smaller dugout and a paddle. It is probably all I can afford. However, there are some small klongs in the area that I am dying to check out. We can't get a long tail boat down them. I'll probably spent the day exploring more remote areas.

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    A plastic kayak would probbaly be more sensible. Wood dries out when you take it out of water and the seams open up so it leaks like a sieve when you put it back in.

    I have seen quite a few places selling plastic rowing boats that are aimed at the prawn farm owners, they aren't very expensive.

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    ^What do those plastic boats sell for? I will try to find out on my end.

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    I honestly can't remember Hilly, it just registered in my mind that they were pretty cheap.

    The ones I saw were in Pranburi town, but there is another place selling them on the Petchkasem Road between Hua Hin and Cha Am. These are just blown plastic not fibreglass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hillbilly
    ^What do those plastic boats sell for? I will try to find out on my end.
    Yeah, I wanna know, too. Thanks for the tip. I will go with plastic. It will probably eben be lighter in case I have to carry it on land in parts. I think I might even be able to borrow a plastic boat from my former landlady. She lent it to me before when my house was flooded. I had to paddle to the nearest road in the early morning. The local children loved it. They had never seen a farang paddling a boat before. Have you ever noticed that Thais often paddle using only one side? Next time, I will load my boat up with popcorn and sell it while I paddle down a small klong.

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    Hmmm... It still looks like I haven't mastered this photo in the post thing. Any suggestions?

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    OK, the directions look simple enough! Let's try this:




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    Next one you have to read is the picture resizing thread in the same section

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