Living and owning a business in Thailand, CS style.

[MeMock]

Mate you are a good bobber.

You owned your own long tail? Now that is way cool

Just tell me when you run out of pics and stories as this is the best thread by far on teakdoor and I will start asking questions again.

[Captain Sensible]

I sure did own my own longtail.



It wasnt super quick like some of them but it did get along at quite a pace, especially when you were going with the flow. Downriver where the Kwai Noi and The Kwai Yai meet it can get pretty busy with longtails shooting back and forth. It seemed that there were just two speeds that Thai longtails drove at. Slow and flat out. They generally chose the latter though.

One day, while I had two gals on board, I didnt see one particular longtail in time and we nearly collided with it. We avoided that collision by a mere few feet but the wake from his boat almost sank us. My boat took so much water and was sitting very low in the water while I was madly bailing with a small bucket that had another boat come by and done the same thing it would have sunk us for sure. I would have been ok though coz, being Australian, I can swim. The two gals were both English and I later learned that neither of them could.
I was very careful to avoid the high traffic areas on the river from then on. Especially when I had totty on board.

Hey MeMock, jump in and ask me questions mate. Otherwise I will just go on adding bits as I remember them.