Competent Crew Course / Ocean Hiker Course in Thailand

Competent Crew Course / Ocean Hiker Course
Here we have a quite interesting approach of ex-cruising sailors who started a Yacht Charter Company on Koh Tao in the Gulf of Thailand. Based on the Competent Crew Course outline of the RYA this experienced cruising sailors added quite a few aspects of blue-water sailing and named it [...]

Sawadee.com Regatta Samui 2009: June 1 – 6th

Regatta Samui 2009: June 1 – 6th

On the 1st of June the Sawadee.com Samui Regatta starts at 10.oo o’clock of Chaweng Beach in the east of Samui.  During the 5 Racing days sailing yachts and sailing boats of  the Racing Class, Premier Class, IRC, Bare Boat charter Class, Sport boats and Multihull Calss will compete [...]

Sailing and Diving around Koh Tao

Koh Tao is certainly one of the top world diving destinations. Not really because of the underwater world but because of the high turnover in students. One diving operation became PADI Dive Center Number One world wide by hitting the absolute yearly certification highscore in 2007.  So, where is the downside then? Perhaps overcrowded diveboats [...]

The 10 best destinations for 2009 by Lonely Planet

Koh Tao in the Gulf of Thailand is ranking on place 4 out of 10 World Wide

Lonely Planet’s annual list of emerging destinations and hip classics will be released this week – but we’ve got a sneak preview. This review about Lonley Planets ranking was published at timesonline last week. It is said that: “First [...]

Customer Reviews – Helpful or not?

At this stage of information technology most travelers getting their needed information from the Internet and not from their local travel agent. Why? Putting it quite frankly, our local travel agent and his sources of information seem to be a drop in the ocean compared to the vast sources we have right at our fingertips [...]