The month of June came and went without any particular happenings, routine maintenance was carried out, weekends some of the crew went hashi...

Visa voyage Departure 29/05/2008 at 0600hrs ship left Yacht Haven Marina in good weather. The sea was calm as can be, only some wind ripple...

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 ...

I arrived in the evening on 31st April by train and minivan from Bangkok to sign on m/y Kalizma, the van left me at the Yacht Haven Marina j...

Many times you see or hear of a yacht and you just wish you could work there, but sometimes the picture behind the scenes is not as rosy as ...

Cheers everyone, been away for some time now but I'm back again, not with a vengeance but just back. As some of you may know I had a...

Everyone might have heard of different Conventions and Standards etc. stipulating different rules of how a ship has to be built and managed.

This is my story how I started smoking and quit smoking.

Wonder how they managed this...

A few weeks ago I went out for my morning walk with my colleague Wendy. She had been hankering for days to walk on the beach and the idea wa...

Been awhile since the last time but I've been really busy starting up this yacht I'm working on. Currently we are doing a "shak...

Damn, last nite we had burglars in the house. One of my flatmates, Wendy, forgot to lock the doors and they had been marching right in the d...

Last week and this has not been good for our team here in Australia. Our Captain who was on a wine tasting session with our boss got nipped ...

Yesterday our boss came to inspect the ship he is building here in Australia. He had loads a meetings and finally settled down to discuss ma...

The weather has been awful for the last week, rain, rain and more rain. Haven't seen raining men but it sure is close. Well, enuff of th...

Greetings from Australia once more. Have been down under in Oz for a couple weeks now. Last Saturday I volunteered to be the designated driv...

Been now almost a week in Oz and seen and experienced a lot.

06.10.2006-05.04.2007 Chief officer m/y Titan  Titan in La Seyne-sur-Mer

26.05.2006 - 27.09.2006 Second Mate (Safety and medical Officer) m/v CMA CGM Capella CMA CGM Capella (photo courtesy of Ivan Meshkov/ Shipsp...

Deutsche Schoner cover

08.08.2005 - 20.12.2005 Marine Superintendent r/v Tonle Pandaw on Tonle Lake

George and Nikos

RMS Windsor Castle Later: SS Margarita L / Rita Ship of sheer beauty! ( Author’s collection) RMS Windsor Castle 1960 - 1977