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[11 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Kayaking Camps In Full Swing During Monsoon

Althougth there is absolutely no sign of the monsoons starting anytime soon but, as per the sailing schedule all the boats, yachts, and other vessels have been safely nested in their yards, docks etc and will only return in Sept after the monsoons.
Q. So what can a Landlubber do next??
A. Kayaking!!!
Kayaking is probably one of the easiest sports to learn and become pretty good in short time. Infact its even great for non swimmers as most of the times kayaking is conducted in inbound well protected lakes with minimum possibility …

[13 Feb 2009 | Comments Off | ]
Any boat, One destination – ALIBAUG

It isn’t everyday that one spots a corporate head honcho speeding away in his boat to work. Bombay Times was pleasantly surprised to capture Sameer Nerurkar, Managing Director of Samira Habitats, doing just that the other day. Samira is a leading lifestyle and infrastructure brand that is redefining Alibag into a preferred luxury destination and offers this bay area lifestyle to the discerning few.

Aptly so Samira Habitats has become synonymous with the Samira Mumbai International Boat Show 2009 (SMIBS) that’s slated from February 20 to 22. Speaking on the unbelievable …

[9 Jan 2009 | No Comment | ]
Viva Santorini…

Greece is one of the yachting havens of the world with some of the finest sailing destinations available in abundance there.

Most comprising of beautiful coastal villages and archipelagos Greece draws up another fine World’s Best Sailing Destination contender in SANTORINI – and is truly the most breath-taking sailing destinations that we have covered (Images will give you proof).
In fact we have covered this sailing destination earlier, and there is so much more to know about it (and so much more to love about it), that we had to talk about …

[26 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
The Cruising Caribbeans…

Away from the world of the Mediterranean and the Asian sailing destinations comes a fresh change with the beautiful Caribbean Islands.
The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which enclose the sea), and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America.

Situated largely on the Caribbean Plate, the region comprises more than 7,000 islands, islets, reefs, and cays. These islands, called the West Indies, generally form …

[28 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
Sailing Destinations : The Enchanted Galapagos Islands

For many fans of Darwinism, Galapagos Islands mean the hot-bed of activity where Charles Darwin himself was able to script his Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection.
Now that is precisely not the reason why we are covering them on our blog…but those who are well traveled you would know that Galapagos is one of the most beautiful holiday destinations in the world.

It is infact an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator, 972 km west of continental Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean.
The Galápagos archipelago has a population of around …