After having done the rounds in Phuket I one evening met a Malaysian chap that had been refurbishing a 10yr old second hand 45' Lagoon c...

Yacht Haven marina

​ In January ​​ having arrived with Boadicea to Thailand I was ashore one evening having a few refreshments and was standing on the street ...

After arrival Mumbai it was time for me to take some time off and on 17th I flew to Thailand and arrived just before midnight, it was half p...

This guy met his maker Dec 2008 in the Port Blair Market

After settling down after the cruise we started on our pending works: awnings, teak dk, interior, engine, MCA, stability, interior carpentry...

Departed Phuket on monday afternoon. The day before I did the immigration, Customs and Harbor Master clearance at Ao Chalong. It is an hours...

Earlier in November I was approached by Mr. Alistair Lawson from the British International School (BIS) if they could do a study visit onbo...

Our time in the Kingdom of Smiles was up again and it was time to exit the country. Once again we were on the way to Langkawi as we also h...

As many you may have read my previous posts, I will just cursorily go through what we did in October (which was not much) but still in hinds...

Screenshot of the Supercheap website

Later on in the evening we get down to Phuket town to see the finale of the Phuket vegetarian festival. The possessed Mah Song are going to ...

As agreed I interrupted my vacation to take Kalizma to Langkawi and back. The purpose was to get some movement on the engines and pick up st...

14th June was the International Marathon run at Laguna and Avnish arranged for voluntary crew to sign up. Me, Richard, Martula and Kalpana ...

Below are contractors and tips I find useful for any yacht visiting Phuket.

At home with all the "get well" flowers

End of last month and this has gone cooped up in port. The rain season seems to give up late this year as it has been raining cats and dogs ...

This month Kalizma did not move from her berth, we stayed put for ongoing maintenance works. We have upgraded the deck lighting, installed a...

05.07.2007 - 31.04.2008 m/y Silver Chief Officer/ Relief Captain (Running deck dept) After having been dismissed from Titan due to the sale ...