Letter of protest from 1872

I had been invited to meet my friend Atul Gaikwad that lives close to Mumbai (at least when you look at the map) and this Saturday I decided...

Just last saturday, 3rd Jan, I had a fire onboard, it was very small and nobody was hurt, but nevertheless could have caused a total loss in...

So it was 31/12, the last day of the year. The day started as any other day here in Mumbai. It is sunny here now in winter time and reasonab...

   Cellular jail (source: Flickr on  Trawell  )

Taking a greenie on deck

We arrived Galle roads at 7am 18th Dec and I contacted the Port control. Port Control instructed us to proceed in and a naval patrol boarded...

Once alongside I met our agent Salim Jadwett and his nephew Ashraf that was the “action man”. Well, we started tackling the publicans and fi...

Here are some services I found good and reliable when I have been visiting Singapore. Map of Singapore marinas

Holy Cow

Smiling paan wala

Well, November brought big changes to our lives again. We had settled in comfortably in Phuket and then we suddenly had a guests arrival loo...

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

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...