Maiden Voyage From The Jungle

Today, we tackled the first stage in the launch of the biggest vessel in our company's ten-year history, towing the Albert Nazarov-designed TS60, now named The New Moon, to the one site deep enough to accommodate its launch (on a spring tide) – a local naval base! It was an extraordinarily complicated, long operation, involving a custom-built movable cradle with no less than 50 wheels, a heavy-load crane, a long, flat-bed low-loader trailer and several dozen personnel, some of whom were charged with lifting high voltage, overhead electricity wires away from the coachtop and deck with forked bamboo poles.
Moving an RB-built vessel to the sea always causes extended traffic delays on the busy Sukhumvit Highway to Bangkok and this was no exception – indeed, today was memorable for the chaos it caused! – although locals still managed to derive plenty of entertainment from the slow procession of the vessel and its support team.