There has lately been a lot of coverage about piracy in modern days and I'd like to comment on it. Piracy to most laymen brings in mind ...

At home with all the "get well" flowers

Previously I posted a blog about Ships Organisation structure, in this blog I am giving some impressions of how small crews works. Every cre...

Ships have a rather militaristic organization structure going in "chain of command" principle, or in other words linear command. O...

On 12th Nov was the full moon of twelfth lunar month and Thailand celebrated Loy Krathong , it is a festival coming from the Hindu “Deepaval...

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 ...

As in previous blog it ended when we arrived to the drydock in Langkawi, which lasted 14th Aug to 18th Sept and was a very tiring affair for...

On our last Sunday I went with a colleague Captain out to the Singapore beer festival held at Fort Canning, one of the oldest areas in Singa...

When you contemplate working on a yacht or in general get involved in shipping you will hear the word certificate being mentioned in every c...

As told before we arrived at the Wavemaster floating pontoon on the 14th Aug for our drydocking. Once alongside our agent, Nick Coombes, set...

We departed Phuket on 12th of Aug for Langkawi. Weather was again fine, only when we got out of cover Ko Yao Yai did we get swell in from th...

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

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...