Barry and I drive back from the marina in Krabi to the boat on Lanta. 

We sail from Lanta at 4AM heading for the Butan islands, 60nm to the south. 

A great sail is had! 

While I’m on Lanta Island in Thailand we receive news that the King of Thailand has died. Barry and I attempt to check out of Thailand on our way sailing to Malaysia, only to find immigration and custom offices are closed. We get into see the harbor master, but will that bit of paper be enough for us to complete checkout at Ko Lipe? 

Dear Patrons, 

Here’s the latest vlog from Thailand. In this video I travel with Yan from Krabi to Phi Phi to Lanta Old Town. We sail along with Liz and Jamie from @followtheboat and enjoy some fun adventures together. 

As is announced in the video, I will be out sailing until mid-January, 2017. During that time I hope to bring you lots more vlog content on a regular basis. 

Someone asked if I was planning to develop any games along the way… problem is, I left my PC (development) laptop back in Shanghai, since I was only planning for this to be a 2-week sailing trip. My MacBook Air (which I’m using now, and on which I edit videos) is 5 years old and doesn’t have the capacity to do meaningful development work plus video editing. So… a bit crippled at the moment, but hoping to order a new MacBook Pro at end of October, which would put me back in a position to both edit videos and work on some small game projects. 

Someone else asked about further promoting my Patreon channel. Until I am releasing more regular content I’m going to keep the existence of this channel pretty quiet. I figure it’ll make more sense when/if I decide to move to the boat full-time, and can commit to more regular content updates. I only plan to charge for video posts when I think the video is fun/interesting enough to warrant such.

In the meantime, I appreciate the support from those of you who are supporting me. I like to think of you as my little inner circle, so feel free to send comments and feedback – knowing that I’ll read and reply to everything.