The 6th edition of The Goa International Boat Show (GIBS), on the prestigious IBI International Calendar sets sail from 15-17 January ‘2010 at Goa, India.
GIBS is India’s Oldest & Only on-water luxury lifestyles show, featuring over 200 International & Indian brands. The current edition has booked space of over 30,000 sq.ft. making it the largest industry platform, supported by the Government & States, Chambers of Commerce, Trade Associations, Industry Media, related business & professional organisations, etc.
GIBS has now become a household name for any player in the Boating, Water Liesure …

Homi Manekshaw shares with us his experiences of his voyage to Goa for a yacht delivery & throws light on some lessons learnt! Here goes…

On Sat 31st Jan I joined the yacht along with Gp. Capt. Bhattacharya, Col. Sameer and Tindal Ashok.  All others went back to join up with their normal day-to day callings. My brief was to sail the boat and deliver her safely at her home port – Goa. Since it was a week end we spent the time visiting the places of interest at Murud Janjira …

Dreaming about owning a yacht?? Well, this is something that most of us well-heeled Indians would be doing nowadays !
What’s next?!…’What do I do with my yacht?’? Most of us would just not want our precious water-ladies to be sitting pretty in the harbor and getting ’sun-tanned’.

Most yacht-owners would want to take their yachts for a regular spin with their friends or associates…some would take it one step ahead and get thrilled with watersports at the back of their boat.
BUT one of the most sought after ‘things-to-do’ for owners …

Sober sunshine, a calm fishing jetty, small waves hitting a silent beach-shore, boats scattered in red and white…sounds like the perfect setting for your beach-home considering that all this in Goa!
But that was the perfect setting for Ava Marine’s shipyard..a multi-crore facility that has an integrated Italian factory and is home to India’s very own speed-boat (that is comparable in terms of form and function to what international players offer).
Team GIIRA was lucky to be invited by Ava Marine’s Maneck and Firoze Contractor to have a detailed look at their …

Three German Navy Ships were on a goodwill visit to Kochi,India from April 05 to 08. Following that India and Germany three-day Naval exercise was held at the Arabian sea from 8th to 10th April 2008. An Indo-German Defence Cooperation Agreement in this context was signed in 2006..
Over 700 personnel from the German Task Force comprising the Federal German Ship (FGS) Hamburg, which is an air-defence ship, frigate FGS Koeln, and FGS Berlin, which is a replenishment tanker, participated in the exercise from the German side.The training ships “INS Tir” …