Koh Tao ‘Adopt a Reef’ Program

Adopting a reef on Koh Tao Thailand This year, the Save Koh Tao Group and The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) is implementing an ‘Adopt a Reef’ program to make local businesses or landowners responsible for the protection and maintenance of reef areas around the island. This program is aimed to combat threats [...]

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 [...]

A hitchhikers guide to the blue galaxy

It’s time to get ready for hitching a ride on a sailing yacht to the Maledives, Sri Lanka, Oman, Aden, the divers paradises of the Red Sea or even up to the Mediterranean Sea! We’re writing November 7th on planet earth. In the North Indian Ocean, the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand the [...]

Phuket Yacht Club & Topper Sail Phuket

Phuket Sunshine Village rides the Optimist Wave The Yacht Racing Association of Thailand has joined forces with Phuket Yacht Clubs Head Coach Jaray Tipsuk to open the world of sailing to more of Phukets disadvantaged children. After a short course in Optimist sailing as a young boy, Khun Jaray went on to the Optimist Worlds [...]

Kitecam and Sailing Yachts

Using a Kitecam while sailing This Guy is showing us how to get some awesome video footage of our own yacht while being actually under way. The result is quite impressive considering the huge difference in production costs. Not knowing exactly how much the setup for the Kitecam is it will be certainly  cheaper than [...]