Captain’s Blog
– Jan 2008
Ship’s News:
Kalizma spent the month of Jan in Yachthaven Marina
getting a whole load of work done on engines as well as the outer areas in
preparation for the sail out of Phuket.
We even had technicians down
from India, replaced Barasol ceiling and laid cabling for new Echosounders
and radar that will be fitted in the next docking
The yacht sailed for
Langkawi 1st week Feb to pick up our new jetskis and boats but ran into
immigration trouble (for some of the crew) and we decided to press on to
Singapore after fuelling.
While waiting for new the yacht will stay in
Raffles Marina using Scott Walker of Seal Singapore as the agents
There
has been a lot of crew changes with S.Saini off to UK to do exams,
Christine and Sophy leaving at the end of their contracts. Hardest of all
to digest is that Sasha Marker is also leaving after we get in to
Singapore
Captain’s News:
Spent the month playing
lots of golf in Phuket (once one leaves a port, a seaman never knows when
he can come back)
Decided to spend my birthday in Singapore with Joya
and go for the POLICE reunion concert (which was fabulous) Of course, the
golf gang decided to make it too as it was Paul’s birthday
Got back
into Phuket on the 5th of Feb and took the boat out for trials, completed
accounts and had a last farewell in Layan Gardens. Eddy, Jane and Paul
decided to come all the way to PhiPhi and get their boat to bring them
back while we pressed on to Singapore
Looking fwd to getting some news
once we get into Singapore so that we know where we will be based for the
rest of the year
Crew News:
Saini (the Bosn) has left for his annual
leave and then exams in UK. We wish him all the best
Christina and
Sophy have left the boat at the end of their contracts
We have hired
two Filipino stewardesses and one Filipino deckhand to take their place in
the meantime.
Vivek Singh is rejoining as Chief Engineer on our arrival
in Singapore
Of course, the hardest part will be letting go of Sasha
Marker, the Chief Stewardess, who is leaving us in Singapore. It will be
hard to replace her with all the work she does in addition to her normal
duties as Chief Stew. She is hard at work training the new Stews and
handing over to Jyothi who will take over as Ch.Stew.
Charter and Guests News:
We have had two enquiries
for charter, one in Singapore and one in Hongkong but we are waiting for
final positioning of the yacht before we decide/ accept
