On 11th March 2013, we picked up a mooring in Ao Chalong, Phuket. It was a 3 day sail from Port Dickson, covering 350 nautical miles. Unfortunately we had no wind and the sea was flat so we had to motor about a third of the way.
We love Thailand. You can get almost anything here (much like Malaysia). Food is good and cheap. People are friendly. We spent almost 2 weeks here, repaired our dinghy and made a new cover for our sail drive at Cholomark which cost us $530 AUD. A little pricey but the workmanship was pretty good.
We finally departed Phuket for Maldives on 23rd...