Category: Sailing in the Andaman Islands

“Closing the gate” at Number two beach on Havelock Island we followed Quintessa, Beach House, Smart Choice and Yantara north to the Homfrey Strait – Bali Hai’s second anchorage (apart from Port Blair) in the Andaman Islands.  After about a four hour motor on an uncannily calm sea, we arrived in Elphinstone Harbour at the…

With all the formalities completed, our wallets full of rupees and fruit and vegetables purchased, we departed Port Blair on Friday 3 February, heading for Havelock Island.  Following Yantara out of our anchorage at Port Blair We had been warned that the anchorage in Port Blair was very muddy so we raised the anchor to…

We were woken up at 6am by loud heavily amplified music from the shore (a long way off!). No it wasn’t a Bollywood musical number, nor a lovely Hindu mantra,  it was a 1950’s style marching band with a man “singing” in German although most of the lyrics appeared to be laughing “ha ha ha,…

It was fantastic to be back in India again – the colours, the traffic, the kind people – but Port Blair is like “India lite”. The traffic is much less hectic (but still anarchic), the place still has a buzz but there are far fewer people, it is much cleaner and there appears to be…

After a three day, three night trip from Phuket in Thailand we were thrilled to have finally anchored in Mangrove Bay in Port Blair on the Andaman Islands.  The anchorage in Mangrove Bay in Port Blair. The fishermen loved to come close to check us out  Having heard that it can take up to three…

It was great to be on an ocean passage again after sailing up and down the coast and through the islands of Malaysia and Thailand for the last year and a bit.  Farewell Phuket! The weather forecast was predicting almost non existent wind in the Andaman Sea for two days with around 15 knots from…