Sailing Thailand INFO Forum Hello everybody, welcome to our new Sailing Thailand INFO platform for sailors, holiday sailors, scuba divers and marine enthusiasts who are planing to or did sail the waters of Thailand. Indeed, we have here one of the most beautiful marine environments, abundance of islands and marine parks, coral reefs, beaches and [...]
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Study online for your sailing course The internet is more widely available nowadays. Every second person is using some sort of a pad or a tab or any other mobile internet capable device on the go. Time is money so lets not waste any of it. Here we found a good example how to manage [...]
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Sailing Course on board Sailing courses are available in Thailand in various different forms. Some are on a daily bases and others accommodate the student aboard the training yacht. To earn a beginners license as the Competent Crew it is not a prerequisite to live aboard the yacht. Still, the question is: what is actually [...]
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Yes, when we hear the words “Last Minute” for most people it combines some thing like getting stuff discounted. And we can ‘t resist this particular attraction which comes along with the sound of the two words because it suggests subliminally to our brain: “STOP, here we can SAVE” even though we will spend in [...]
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Diving Liveaboard Thailand is certainly not the only place where excellent Live-aboard SCUBA diving is offered . First lets agree on a definition on what live-aboard is. A live-aboard service offers its guests to stay on board for one or more nights, unlike a day boat operation. This allows time to travel to more distant [...]
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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 [...]
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Mu Ko Surin National Marine Park Surin Island National Marine Park a paradise of thick jungle, fine white sandy beaches crystal-clear waters, and the most extensive coral reefs in Thailand. It is also home of the Moken Sea Gypsies. It is famous for it’s gorgeous, diverse and prolific shallow-water corals, and popular with live-aboard diving [...]
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Plastiki proves the power of ingenuity, imagination combined with some eco awareness with creator, environmental advocate and eco-adventurist David de Rothschild at the helm. Plastiki is a showcase of how waste can be used as a valuable resource. This modern vessel has been engineered from cutting edge materials and all available sustainable design technologies, the [...]
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And here we have again some upcoming enterprise exploiting the most gorgeous places on the planet. But this sailing excursion has pretty much everything what the modern budget traveler is asking for. Adventure, nature and fun. And it is done with the least possible ecological footprint you can think of. Well, this company operating of [...]
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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 [...]
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Ondoy/Ketsana Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 in suburban Cainta, east of Manila, Philippines. People wade in the chest deep floodwater. At least 103 people dead in the Philippines, the Thyphoon Ondoy causing floods in the capital, Manila, that forced thousands to evacuate their homes. It is expected that the storm is hitting the coast of Vietnam [...]
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Scuba Diving in Honduras Honduras is best known for its underwater riches, particularly its vantage point to the worlds second largest barrier reef. It has a well-deserved reputation as one of the best (and cheapest next to Koh Tao / Thailand) places to learn to dive or complete your dive-master training. Your dives will show [...]
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Save Koh Tao – Marine Conservation Receiving now for quite a while the news letters of the Save Koh Tao Marine Conservation I have to admit that I am impressed by the continues action brought up mainly by volunteers to help in regards to environmental issues on the small Island Koh Tao in the Gulf [...]
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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 [...]
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SY Sampai Jumpa collides with Ferry The Diving Liveaboard Vessel sunk on its journey from Koh Phuket to Koh Tao. It was colliding on Sunday morning the 24th of May 2009 with a Ferry, broke up and sunk on the east coast of Malaysia. The Crew, three Thais and an Irish Dive guide were rescued [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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: [...]
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The Ultimate Dive Shop Software Here we go. The ultimate package developed by Prodata to get your business under control. This software you can try out for 30 days. It is capable to manage your dive boats, your accommodation, everything you are hiring out from snorkel to motorbike and will give you an exact summery [...]
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