Schooner Ixdos – Phuket – Thailand

December 2009

July 2009

British International School – Creativity, Action, Service – 2009

Deck-house June 2009

May 2009

April 2009

January to March 2009

Cheers ahoy! Look-out ready

CAS sanding

Cockpit finished

Poop painting finished

OB’s wheel

Go sailors go!

BIS Team – March 2009


Stern with hatch

Cockpit

Deck-house starboard deck

Clinic hatch

Field trip

Clinic bilges

The Schooner Christian Foundation is a charity with the objective of building a small ship capable of carrying a mobile mother and child health clinic to island peoples lacking such a facility. An additional objective is to carry equipment for drilling for water with the intention of providing sustainable drinking water systems wherever needed.

The Schooner Ixdos is being built by the foundation in Phuket and has been designed as a sailing ship with an auxiliary engine. In the forward section, space has been allocated for a clinic with overhead access to allow stretcher cases to be lowered. 6 double cabins will accommodate a professional team to crew the ship and staff the clinic.

Building was originally funded privately. After the Asian tsunami the need became quite apparent and donations were accepted in order to speed up construction. The ship is now more than half built and funds are sought in order to finish building and to become operational.

Thanks to the kind and continued support of the congregation of St. Mary’s, Trimley, Suffolk, England, the Brothers of St Andrew, All Saints Watsonville, California, our friends from California and New York, the PTA of the British International School, Phuket, the parents of children I teach in Phuket, and brothers and sisters from the House of the Lord, Phuket, we have continued to work steadily through the summer holidays and have made more progress. Especial thanks to Dan Letton who came for his summer holiday in 2008 and worked relentlessly to provide us with flooring in the bilges to enable us to carry medical stores, general stores, and anchor cable. We have received the last delivery of steel which has been cut. We can now complete our engine room and install the engine. We are ready to install two stainless steel water tanks. We have prepared and painted the poop and the deck-house.

Thank you indeed for your thoughts, prayers and contributions. Our huge leap in faith has been sustained by your enthusiasm and we anticipate with excitement the eventual launching of Schooner Ixdos.

With Love

Patrick

Schooner Ixdos – August 2009

Patrick Vickers
P.O. Box 315,
A. Muang,
Phuket P.O.,
Phuket 83000
Thailand
Tel: +66 (0) 84 176 1832
pat @ mission-ship.com