COLONA II takes a maximum of 6 guests, which are accommodated in 3 comfortable 2 bed cabins. There are 2 toilet/showers. The yacht is air-conditioned throughout. The cozy cockpit offers shade for the sun and shelter for the odd tropical shower.

When you taste the results of Kim’s cooking, both Thai and European, you understand why Freddy married her in the first place. Should you be desperate to lose weight, we cannot recommend this boat!

Coffee, tea, cold drinking water and snacks are there for you at all times. Soft drinks, beer and imported wines are available on board.

Spacious aft 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 disturbing noise to the guests at all. Custom made swimladder facilitates entry to the yacht and a 3,50m RIB tender does the same for drift dives. There is ample A/C 110 & 220 volt power for charging strobes and torches, a rinsing bin is on the aft deck to flush your UW camera. Diving is for certified divers only, normally no courses are taught on board.

TECHNICAL DATA

• 60 ft ( 18 m) steel cutter ketch
• builder Perry Yachts, Great Britain
• beam 4,20 m (14 ft) draught 2.50m ( 8ft)
• working sails ,main, mizzen, staysail genoa sqm, chute sqm
• engine Ford 120hp,generator Perkins 15 KVA, shaft generator 11 KVA
• water capacity 2 tons, fuel 2 tons
• electronics : GPS, fishfinder, radar, VHF, SSB, autopilot
• air-conditioned throughout
• 3 x 2 person guestcabins
• 2x toilet /shower

DIVING

• 8 x 12 liter (83 qft) aluminum tanks INT connections
• silent 210 ltr/min Bauer compressors
• dedicated dive benches
• 3,50 RIB tender with 10 HP outboard
• custom made diveladder

S/Y Colona II and his captain

Norwegian 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 together twice.

Chartering started in 1977 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, then literally consisting of one hut on the beach, now a bustling dive resort, famous worldwide. COLONA II was probably the first yacht ever to enable divers to take out trips to Southern Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, and Djibouti as well as being the first to dive many of the sites that are now world-famous.
Chilst undertaking his circumnavigations 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 live-aboards 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 he and Kim have been making sailing-and divingtrips since then.
Many of their old guests as well as new ones have been taken to the finest places on the Andaman sea.
Keen underwaterphotographer himself, a considerable number among Freddy & Kim’s guests are well known from the various diving publications.