S/Y Colona II
COLONA II takes a maximum of 6 guests, which are accommodated in three comfortable twin bed cabins. On board there are two toilets and two showers. The yacht is air-conditioned throughout. The cozy cockpit offers shade for the sun and shelter for the odd tropical shower.
The meals served onboard Colona II are excellent. There is coffee, tea, drinking water and snacks available for you at all times.
Soft drinks, beer and imported wines are available at an extra charge.
The spacious deck with well-organized dive benches provides ample place for kitting up and off and ensures that between dives no gear clutters the boat.
Colona’s compressor is electrically driven and as it is mounted down below in the bow, causes no disturbance to guests at all. A custom made swim ladder makes it easy access for entry and exit. Colona II also carries a 3,50m RIB tender. There is ample A/C 110 & 220 volt power for charging strobes and torches, a rinsing bin is on the deck to flush through your UW camera. Diving is for certified divers only. PADI courses are not taught on this boat.
Colona II is an excellant choice among friends and also with non divers.
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History of Colona II
Norwegian born Freddy Storheil and his faithful yacht COLONA II have been around for over 20 years. "Around" can be taken literally as they have circumnavigated the world twice together.
Chartering started back in 1977 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, with just one small hut on the beach for a dive school which is now a bustling dive resort. COLONA II was probably the first ever yacht to enable divers to take trips to Southern Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, and Djibouti as well as being the first to dive some of the now world famous dive sites.
Whilst undertaking his adventures Freddy has dived and sailed in places that would fill us all with envy: many of the Pacific islands, Maldives, Caribbean, Chagos, Red Sea etc. We are dealing with one experienced captain here!
Freddy, in the mean time has set up Colona Dive Club, a top quality dive center in Sharm El Sheikh which can offer all PADI courses as well as daytrips and liveaboards in the Northern Red Sea.
In 1993 he met his wife Kim and whilst visiting Thailand, her home country, he immediately fell in love with the place.
He sailed COLONA II here in 1995, and since then Kim and Freddy have been making sailing and diving trips. Many of their old guests as well as new ones have been taken to some of the finest places in the Andaman sea.
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