Crystal Blues

Our January visit to India finished with a whistle-stop tour of the Golden Triangle in Rajashtan. We travelled by rail, air and road betwe...

Regular readers will notice the change in appearance of these pages.  We loved the look and feel of the old style, but have been forced to ...

Calangute Beach at sunset, where we dined each evening - very nice. Neil's Consulting work for Space Matrix takes him to India for ...

Christmas, New Year and now it is March.  What happened in between? Holiday Time Nai Harn Bay in Phuket is one of our favourite anc...

Orchid shopping (Photo SV Catchastar)   The Job List For cruisers, one of the big attractions of Phuket is the quality marine service...

Rebak Retirement Island! In early November Neil was busy working in India, so Ley filled her days with a typical Rebak Retirement Island ...

Lucky us! Silence I was off watch and woke to hear the engine being shut off.  I listened for the sheets  to be released and the m...

Wanting To Ship To Turkey? SV Skedaddle Again being loaded in the Maldives 2011 We have posted this on behalf of Pete and Kathy on SV...

And never sail with a woman onboard - well we won't go there.  So we broke all the old rules last Friday and were severely punished! ...

We had a B.O.A.T (bring out another thousand ) day, yesterday.  Fortunately these don't come around too often, but when they do they ar...

Celebrating 90 years Four Generations Ley's father, Ray Worrall, celebrated his 90th birthday on June 21, just a week after...

Back in December 2009 we commissioned Siam Cooling to upgrade our 240 volt refrigeration systems.  A new Hermetique compressor was insta...

View from Crystal Blues in the channel between Pulau Aur and Pulau Dayang Easter holidays offered us a few days away from Singapore, so...

A Different View View from the cockpit at dusk. This month the Singapore Yacht Show came to One Degree 15 Marina on Sentosa Island, ...

13 Roses Valentines Day and our wedding anniversary Valentines Day and our thirteenth wedding anniversary was celebrated Singapore st...