Boarded by Thai authorities - sailing SE Asia 

Boarded by Thai authorities - sailing SE Asia
We F@#Ked up! Not once but twice.
We have been sailing our floating home along the beautiful coast of Thailand getting to know the country better, immersing ourselves in the culture by signing our sailing teens up to a Muay Thai, kick boxing class.
We have been enjoying the freedom of travelling around the many tropical islands, on hired mopeds.
However, while traversing Phuket, the boys unfortunately crashed their moped, ending up under a truck and injuring themselves in the process.
The police were called.
Having heard terrible stories about Thai police dealing with tourists harshly, we spent several tense minutes believing they would throw the book at us. However, the reality was quite different.
Fast forward a few days and an incredibly stupid decision on our part, made while pulling up a mooring line, resulted in us once more rubbing shoulders and causing friction with the the water authorities in Phang Nga Bay.
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BACK STORY
In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob rowed a tiny 7m (22 foot) plywood boat 2,500 miles from Tenerife (Canary Islands) to Barbados (Caribbean). It took six weeks for Rob and rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, to complete winning the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.
Skip forward to 2014 and, married with three children, Rob and his wife Rachel purchased Javelot, a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Rob's 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel's non existent sailing knowledge, We set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know their boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn (then 13), Declan (then 11) and Ivan (then 8), in tow. Through trial and error we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
The plan? To sail around the world.
Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we hope to retrace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed. www.brothernumberone.co.nz
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