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About Us
SEAL Superyachts is a professional yacht support Agency, providing assistance to visiting Superyachts
throughout Asia and the Indian Ocean since 1991. Seal Superyachts has been honored with Asia's
top Yachting Award for 'Best Yacht Management Services' at the prestigious Christofle Asia Boating
Awards.
SEAL Superyachts office in Thailand is the founding member of the Seal Superyachts group. The co-
founder of Seal Superyachts, Adam Frost, had been working in the yachting industry for 25 years,
based in Thailand, Myanmar and throughout Southeast Asia. He is also a co-founder of SEAL, a
pioneering liveaboard Diving and Sailing company. Running this company has given Adam many
years of experience; sailing and exploring the remote island Archipelagos of Southeast Asia. This
knowledge is core to Adams competency in acting as agent for the world’s largest Superyachts.
Today Adam is the Managing Director of Seal Superyachts Company, and the Group Managing
Director of the Seal Superyachrs group of companies.
Our Staff are a mix of experienced Europeans, balanced with a team of very capable Thai
administrative staff. Together we provide in-depth yachting experience, local knowledge, important
connections in Thailand and the capability to handle any request or problem in timely and
professional manner.
SEAL SUPERYACHTS – ASIA’S LEADING SUPERYACHT SUPPORT NETWORK is the premier Superyacht
Support Agent in Asia. Servicing the World’s largest Superyacht for over twenty two years, our
coverage of dedicated offices spans from the Seychelles through to Eastern Indonesia. All of our
offices are manned by highly experienced local marine specific professionals. We are Asia’s most
experienced and oldest established yacht Agency!
Our Clients
M/Y Destiny of Langkawi
M/Y Diana
M/Y Double Haven
M/Y Dream Seeker
M/Y Elandess
M/Y Evergreen
M/Y Fifty One
M/Y Fortuna
M/Y Freesia
M/Y Indies Trader
M/Y Lady
M/Y Lady Christine
M/Y Lamdamar
M/Y Latitude
M/Y Le Grand Bleu
M/Y Maid Marian II
M/Y Melreni
M/Y Meridian
M/Y Montigne
M/Y Mosaique
M/Y Naturale D
M/Y Newcastle Explorer
M/Y Northern Sun
M/Y Obsessions
M/Y Pelorus
M/Y Princess Valentina
M/Y Puteri Sipadan
M/Y Queen M
M/Y Rasselas
M/Y Santandrea
M/Y Sea Shaw
M/Y Sequel P
M/Y Silver Zwei
M/Y Simpson S
M/Y Sonia
M/Y Stella Fierra
M/Y Taipan III
M/Y Talisman C
M/Y Tatoosh
M/Y Tige'dor
M/Y Titan
M/Y Van Triumph
M/Y Vava
M/Y Verman
M/Y White Cloud
M/Y White Rabbit
M/Y YTL Princess
Motor Yachts
M/Y A Khaliq
M/Y Amevi
M/Y Amevi Surprise
M/Y Ambrosia
M/Y Antarctica
M/Y Anna
M/Y Antipodean
M/Y Arkley
M/Y Arctic P
M/Y Aviva
M/Y Battered Bull
M/Y Big Fish
M/Y Bleu De Nimes
M/Y Braveheart
M/Y Calliope
M/Y Coy Koi
Sailing Yachts
S/Y Adesso
S/Y Adix
S/Y Anakena
S/Y Aphrodite 2
S/Y Avalon
S/Y Beagle Star
S/Y Blue Leopard
S/Y Cardinale
S/Y Ciliam
S/Y Diamonds are forever
S/Y Divine Decadence
S/Y Django Too
S/Y Queen of Andaman
S/Y Saudade
S/Y Seljm
S/Y Shamoun
S/Y Starr Trail
S/Y Surama
S/Y Sylvia
S/Y Tammer II
S/Y Twizzle
S/Y Vaiera
S/Y Wendy Lynn
S/Y Yanneke Too
S/Y Enterprise
S/Y Hetairos
S/Y Hyperion
S/Y Imagine
S/Y Liberty
S/Y Maria Christina
S/Y Magdullus Terzo
S/Y Mermaid
S/Y Naos
S/Y No Logic
S/Y Perseus
S/Y Philanderer
Services We Provide
We provide a cost effective solution for yacht owners and
Captains who wish to bring their yacht to Thailand and
Burma. Our team will handle all local administrative
protocols. We are at hand to assist with all services
required from a busy crew.
Using our services will give access to the freshest and
highest quality provisions, most experienced and qualified
local subcontractors, lowest rate bunkering, and a whole
host of other quality supplies.
Hiring us as your agent brings 25 years of local knowledge
and connections to your benefit.
Our agency fee includes:
The assistance of our SEAL Superyachts manager and his staff, seven
days a week. Emergency help outside office hours.
A Thai network GSM phone (you only pay for calls at cost).
The use of SEAL Superyachts Phuket Town office facilities for meetings or
conference calls.
Postal address/ Telephone/ Fax/ ADSL Internet Connection/ E-mail/
Photocopier
Monthly itemized accounting with no interest on an agreed credit limit.
SEAL Superyachts also provides the following key services:
Airline ticketing (International & Domestic)
Banking facilities (Cash to Master)
Chandlers
Charter Enquiries
Computer service, repairs & installation
Crew placement agency
Crew Uniforms
Cruise guides
Day - workers
Dive Guides
EPIRB, life – raft, safety equipment servicing
Florist Services
Freight Forwarding
Fuel and lube oil supply
Immigration, Customs, Harbor clearance
Laundry/ Dry-cleaning
Local internet connections (GPRS/3G)
Myanmar (Burma) entry permits
Professional Dive guides & Tour guides
Provisioning - International and local brands
Re-fit supplies
Traditional Thai dancers and bands
Vehicle hire
Seal Superyachts offers a bespoke provisioning service to Superyacht Chefs. With a
Determination to offer only the best quality fresh provisions, we have over the years put together
a group of trusted suppliers. We work closely with these companies, in order to complete orders
to the correct standard and meet delivery times.
We are able to supply a broad and diverse range of fresh vegetables, fruits, and berries from
countries across the globe. Selective Organic fruits, vegetables, and micro-herbs are now also
available through us.
We have quality meats such as Japanese or Australian Wagyu Grade 9, Venison, poultry Game
birds, Pate Negra hams, Italian Salamis and much more besides, available in stock. Or we can
order them and have them flown in through our international suppliers on short notice.
Seafood such as Black Cod, Scottish Salmon, live Atlantic Lobsters or Painted Crayfish, Fresh
Scallops and King Crab, Beluga Caviar are regularly on our clients order sheets.
We supply locally produced home-made Italian pastas, such as Tagliolini, Fettuccine, Rigatoni,
Ricotta and Ravioli. Our Bakers supply us with pre-baked croissants, selected breakfast pastries
and breads of most styles. Gluten free, Lactose free, Halal or Kosher produce is being
increasingly more asked for these days, and we are supplying as required.
For Interior supplies we have the most commonly asked for products in stock. Nespresso coffee
capsules, Haagan Dazs Ice Cream, still or sparkling mineral waters and branded cleaning/
washing products. Our team is well used to being asked to supply more unusual products and
items. In short there is little we are unable to supply these days.
Fresh flowers and floral table displays are something we handle for most of the yacht we look
after. We have an exceptionally talented Thai Florist, who works exclusively through Seal
Superyachts. He has now handled the floral requirements for most of the world’s largest yachts,
which have come through Phuket. We will arrange meetings between our florist and your Chief
Stewardess onboard, where specific requirements can be worked out and your requirements
met.
Quality Provisions and Supplies
Thailand – ประเทศไทย
Phuket, lying eight hundred and seventy kilometers south from
Bangkok, is Thailand's largest island, as well as being the country's
smallest province.
Today, Phuket is a vibrant, intrinsic and multi-cultural tourist
destination. Being approximately twenty-one km in width by forty-
eight km in length, the typical landscape of Phuket is one of
forested hills, coconut groves and rubber tree plantations. The
Islands coastline is dotted with numerous spectacular
beaches. The surrounding waters of the Andaman Sea contain
an incredible variety of marine life, which have become
renowned for offering world-class scuba diving. Phuket Island and
its thirty-two smaller islands form Phuket Province, giving a total
area of five hundred and seventy square kilometers.
For yacht berthing in Phuket, we recommend the Yacht Haven
Marina, which is situated on the Northeast coast of Phuket. The
marina is within close proximity to the majestic limestone islands
of Phang Nga Bay. The Yacht Haven is Phuket’s best deep water
access marina. The marina is currently capable of taking yachts
of up to 80 meters in length, and 5-meter draft. There are plans
to greatly expand their Superyacht dock space and marina
facilities in the coming year or two.
Phuket
Phang Nga Bay is renowned for its one hundred or so monolithic
limestone karst islets. The area offers breath-taking scenery and is
classed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. One of the many
attractions in the itinerary of Phang Nga Bay would be sea-
kayaking amongst the many islands and caves, which open out to
reveal hidden 'Hongs' - open air lagoons with sheer limestone
walls. Visiting the traditional stilted Muslim fishing village of ‘Koh
Panyi’ for a fresh seafood lunch is also well worthwhile. Most
famous of all the highlights is James Bond Island, featured in ‘The
Man with the Golden Gun’. Six Senses Resort offers a wellness Spa
treatment at their exclusive five-star Island resort on Koh Yao Noi
Island.
Krabi Province, Sailing just an hour or so southeast from Phang Nga
is the Province of Krabi. Similar in many respects to Phang Nga
bay, Krabi also offers limestone islands of stunning degrees, but
added to this are some beautiful powder white beaches, with
crystal clear water for snorkeling and scuba diving. Krabi province
also offers good land excursions for guest wanting to explore. Tiger
Cave Temple, Hot Spring waterfall and the Emerald Pool are just
some of the natural attractions awaiting those with an
adventurous spirit. Within the coastal boundaries of Krabi province
lie some dream islands. Phi Phi Islands is probably the most
recognizable and beautiful of all, but further to the south are Lanta
Yai and Lanta Noi islands. Koh Lanta offers a couple of great dive
sites known as ‘Hin Daeng’ Red Rock, due to the profuseness of
the abundant Red soft corals growing there. Whale Sharks are
often spotted by divers at Hin Daeng.
Phang Nga and Krabi
The Similan Islands lie approximately 55Nm northwest of Phuket in the
Andaman Sea. In 1982, the 90 Sq.Nm reserve comprising the Similans
was declared a Marine National Park. In recent years this group of nine
small islands has become one of the leading attractions for scuba
divers to Thailand. It is rated as one of the top-ten dive sites in the
world. During the high season months, water clarity for divers can be
between 30-50 meters. Manta Rays, Whale sharks and other large
pelagic fish can all be found in residence around the islands. Other
attractions include pristine coral reefs, power white beaches, small
trekking excursions and snorkeling.
The Surin Islands, archipelago is a 95Sq.Nm Marine National Park,
located in the Andaman Sea, some 35Nm off of the Thai coast.
Belonging to Ranong Province, the park's five islands lie just a few miles
south of the Thai/Burma border. The two main islands, Koh Surin Nua
and Koh Surin Tai, are separated by a narrow strait of water, just one
hundred meters across. The islands have almost no flat ground beyond
small pockets of mangrove and stunning little beaches, nestled in
hidden coves. These two islands cover a land mass of 9sq.m. and
8sq.m. respectively. Again world-class diving is within easy reach
around the islands fringing reefs. Guests can go to the beach, swim,
snorkel, or look for monkeys and other local wildlife. A traditionally
nomadic Seafaring race of people called the ‘Moken’ Sea Gypsies,
make seasonal stilted thatch homes on a couple of the beaches. They
can be visited to buy sea shells or to just witness their very traditional
and rare way of life.
Similan and Surin Islands
The Gulf of Thailand offers some lovely cruising
opportunities, having many unspoiled and beautiful
tropical Islands scattered around the southern coast. Small
winding roadways through old Coconut Tree Plantations,
leading to golden beaches are typical of the type of
scene one would encounter whilst exploring Koh Samui,
Koh Pangan and Koh Tao Islands.
Koh Samui is the best known of the islands in the Gulf. It is
now well established as the main tourist island on the south
western part of the Gulf of Thailand. Good anchorages
can be found on the eastern and northern side of the
Island. Many local jetties make coming ashore easy by
tender. Samui is home to some prestigious hotel chains,
amongst these are the Six Senses, Four Seasons, and
Banyan Tree Resorts.
Koh Pha Ngan, located a few miles north of Koh Samui, is
slightly smaller in size but less developed and more relaxed.
There are beautiful beaches all the way around the
islands, but the best bays can be found on the eastern
coast.
Koh Tao (Turtle Island), ten or so miles north from Koh Pha
Ngan is the small island of Koh Tao. Due to its remoteness,
it is hardly developed and very natural. Clear waters offer
good scuba diving and snorkeling amongst its rocky bays
and inlets. The island is an important breeding ground for
Hawksbill and Green Turtles.
Mu Ko Ang Thong National Park is an archipelago in the Gulf
of Thailand. It comprises of 42 Islands. Most of the islands
consist of limestone mountains 10 - 100 meters above sea
level. The park covers a total area of 102 sq.km of which
about 18sq.km is land mass.
Gulf of Thailand
Myanmar
Seal Superyachts has been providing professional yacht support
services in Burmese waters since 1997. This is from the very start
of when Burma's waters were opened up to private yacht visits.
In fact we are proudly justified in saying that we are the
pioneers of yachting in Burma. We were directly responsible for
negotiations with the government, persuading them to open
the Mergui Archipelago to eco-tourism and yachting. Before 97,
the islands had remained off limits since the end of the Second
World War.
Burma has some of the most beautiful sailing grounds in Asia,
and arguably the world. The southern islands of Burma's Mergui
Archipelago lie only one hundred and twenty nautical miles to
the north of Phuket and directly west of the Thai border town of
Ranong. There are approximately eight hundred pristine and
untouched islands opposite Burma's Tennasserim coast, forming
one of the last remaining untouched paradises on the planet.
Flora and fauna is prolific on the islands. Although impenetrable
jungle prevents sighting of larger mammals, their tracks are
plentiful above the high tide mark on the beaches of larger
islands. Macaque (pronounced ma-cak) monkeys and large
monitor lizards are seen frequently on the beaches and rocky
shorelines. The larger islands are believed to support a wide
variety of mammals and reptiles within the dense rain forests,
although no formal study has been done since the turn of the
century. Crocodiles have been seen, and there has even been
a suggestion that the rare Asian Rhinoceros might still survive on
the larger islands. There are literally hundreds of untouched
anchorages in this southern Mergui group.
The Mergui Archipelago
Seal Superyachts can arrange all the necessary government
permits required for yachts to visit the Mergui
Archipelago. The entry point in to the islands is through the
southernmost port in Myanmar called Kawthong (formally
known as Victoria Point). With all permits pre-arranged,
immigration clearances are completed within one hour on
arrival. After which your yacht will be free to continue
onward to explore the stunning islands of the Mergui
Archipelago.
Of the over eight hundred Islands which comprise the Mergui
Archipelago; there are only a hand-full which are off-
limits. This is due to some navy and army bases on the
islands. Apart from these, all other islands are open to
visit. You will be able to cruise and stop where you wish,
without hinderance from and government authority. The
area is extremely remote and virtually uninhabited. There are
a few fishing villages in the northern part of the archipelago,
but generally one can expect to see very little boat
traffic. The Moken Sea Gypsies can also be found in the
Mergui Archipelago; however they are shy and generally
prefer to stay away from any visiting yachts.
To visit the Mergui Archipelago is in fact a special
privilege. Very few places are left on this earth that are as
unspoiled and as natural as this place. The waters are clean
and abundant in marine life, whilst the forests are stocked will
flora and fauna. We highly recommend a visit to the Mergui
Archipelago as part of any yachts visit to Southeast Asia; it will
be the highlight of a cruise to this region.
Cruising the Islands
SEAL SUPERYACHTS Co., Ltd.
Mr. Adam Frost
A10 The Royal Place, 96/68 Praphuketkhew Road, Kathu, Phuket 83120 Thailand
[email protected] Skype: adam_frost
Mobile: +66 (0) 819796636, Office Tel: +66 (0)76 612655
WWW.SEAL-SUPERYACHTS.COM
Proudly serving the world’s Superyacht fleet throughout the Indian Ocean and Asia since 1991.