Flashermac Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 PHETCHABURI : A Russian national was arrested Thursday after allegedly stealing a catamaran from Chon Buri's Sattahip district on Sunday. The man apparently did not know how to sail, as the stolen boat was found adrift off the coast of Phetchaburi, with the suspect on board, after running out of fuel, police said. Astrakhantcev Aetpaxahueb, 20, initially refused to surrender to maritime police from Prachuap Khiri Khan's Pran Buri district. He eventually relented however and and allegedly confessed to stealing the catamaran from Bang Sare beach in Chon Buri. It took officers a full hour to talk the suspect, who was hiding below deck, into surrendering, police said. Mr Aetpaxahueb allegedly told police he planned to motor to Indonesia and the Philippines but ran out of fuel about 12 nautical miles from shore. A fishing trawler spotted the stricken boat and reported it to authorities, police said. The boat's owner, Olec Ocorodov, who runs a yacht rental business in Sattahip, said he had anchored the stolen vessel a few metres from the beach and awoke on Sunday morning to find it missing. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/368315/russian-arrested-for-catamaran-theft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 Those Ruskies and all of that Vodka. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 Obviously put a lot of thought into it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 And obviously no navigational skills either, why would anyone sailing from Sattahip to Indonesia be only 12 NM off the Petchaburi coastline. It's been many years since I did navigation but even I with a simple sextant would not go that far wrong even after a bottle of Vodka, he was a "Hugger" as in hugging the coastline and keeping it in sight, he was lucky he ran out of fuel where he did christ knows how he intended to get from Indo to PI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted September 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 Which means he was going north to go south... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 Thats why a called him a "Hugger" Petchaburi is approx 30 NM North of Sattahip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted September 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 Going the long way around ... how much fuel did he think he had? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 If he was taking that route he should have stopped off at Koh Samet, I hear PTT have free fuel deposits available on the beach there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 Reminds me of this story from the hearing earlier this week http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408698/Polish-captain-ran-ship-aground-tried-sail-Scotland-Belgium--FORGOT-England-way.html You just cant make this up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 What a sailor. I remember sailing my boat to Koh Chang and my good old Thai captain seeing Koh Khram Yai off Sattahip and saying "Koh Chang?" Not quit there yet, Oh well the capitan didn't know what he got himself into and neither did I. Good old times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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