The day before yesterday, we began the long, tedious process of moving the 60-foot 'gentleman's motor yacht', the TS60, designed by Albert Nazarov, towards its launch.
The first stage was loading the vessel onto a custom-built steel cradle supported by 50 small wheels so that it could be moved, very slowly and carefully, out of the covered yard near Jomtien. From there it was to be trailered the few miles to the coast to a crane waiting to lift it into the sea.
The moving of finished vessels from our yard along the busy Sukhumvit Highway has become, for locals, annoyingly commonplace. Sometimes, traffic has been backed up for 40 miles or more behind wider, heavier yachts, prompting complaints to the local police chief from as far away as Bangkok.
I expect the TS60's overland journey to be uneventful – but it's likely to be yet another show-stopper!
The first stage was loading the vessel onto a custom-built steel cradle supported by 50 small wheels so that it could be moved, very slowly and carefully, out of the covered yard near Jomtien. From there it was to be trailered the few miles to the coast to a crane waiting to lift it into the sea.
The moving of finished vessels from our yard along the busy Sukhumvit Highway has become, for locals, annoyingly commonplace. Sometimes, traffic has been backed up for 40 miles or more behind wider, heavier yachts, prompting complaints to the local police chief from as far away as Bangkok.
I expect the TS60's overland journey to be uneventful – but it's likely to be yet another show-stopper!
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