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S/Y Jambo Liveaboard

Boasting some of the clearest waters in East Africa, the coastal regions close to the Kenya/Tanzania border and out to Pemba island offer some fantastic diving. Jambo is a 23 metre luxury sailing yacht, one of the best liveaboards on the coast of East Africa that offers a unique experience to the reefs off and around Pemba Island. Departing from the coastal town of Shimoni (you fly into Mombasa), Jambo sails regularly year round, although best diving conditions are from October through to April when the water is warm and clear. Built in 1990, accommodation consists of 5 air-conditioned cabins – 3 double and 2 twin berthed. With two masts she can open seven sails and when conditions are right this makes for an impressive way to travel between dive sites. The vessel boasts a spacious forward deck, a salon with library, music system, TV/video and dining area with well stocked bar. Suitable for both divers and their non-diving partners, for whom shore trips, snorkelling and other activities can be arranged. The crew of seven includes a creative chef who produces a delicious combination of both local and international dishes
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Diving

Diving around Pemba is generally drift diving and there are two tenders used for diver drop off and pick up. Three to four dives per day are planned along Pemba’s West Wall, Mesali Island or, conditions permitting, the dramatic East coast. Night dives are offered wherever possible. Warm tropical seas enriched with nutrients bought by current flowing from the Pacific Ocean support an astonishing variety of marine life; Pemba is at the western edge of the vast Indo-Pacific oceanic region and has many species of reef fish and coral. At present, the number of divers is small enough to ensure uncrowded dive sites. Around Fundu Gap, a narrow channel linking a tidal lagoon to the sea, see a large variety of fish life including surgeonfish, blue fin and big eye trevally. At Ras Miungani there is a well preserved steam freighter wreck – the SS Paraportiani – laying at 15 metres.The wall diving at Mtangani and Mchengazi offers strong oceanic current ideal for pelagic life; here sightings of hammerhead and reef sharks, trevally, tuna and barracuda are common.

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S/Y SANJEEDA Liveaboard

With two masts fashioned from whole tree trunks, long curved booms from which the sails hang, and carved sea eagle at her prow, Sanjeeda looks like a pirate galleon. Her stability high teak sides, diving and snorkelling facilities make her the ideal vessel. The 93ft teak kotiya dhow with it's elegant Portuguese-Style galleon stern, houses 6 cabins and 17 luxury berth. Available for private charters of short set date departures.

Sanjeeda feels exotic and she is exotic, being the only working Indian dhow, or kotiya, in the world. A 91ft vessel, with an elegant Portuguese-style galleon stern housing six solid wooden bunked cabins to hold friends and family, as well as crew quarters, a galley and library. The seven enormous hand-sewn Indian cotton sails well into the skies on two masts (51ft and 55ft) and two moveable permans (77ft and 65ft), and form a sea of creamy cloud. The deck, hewn from Indonesian teak by 25 Indian boat builders, gleams richly with linseed oil as the seven-man crew heave ropes and scramble up masts.

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