Boat description

MS Pretty Tombilli has all the facilities you need for your surf boat charter of the Southern Atolls. She has a dining area with expresso machine, bar & sundeck; and TV, DVD & VCD players. The extra bonus is the video & photo editing station.  They also have internet facilities and designated smoking & non smoking areas for your comfort.  For anyone interested in diving, Tombilli has all the facilities and equipment for you to venture beneath the surface to check out the other world under the waves.

Accommodation
The TOMBILLI offers 6 double cabins for a maximum of 12 guests. Each cabin has it's own bathroom/toilet with warm and cold fresh water. 4 cabins hold a double bed and a single bed - they are perfect for families or surf groups. When TOMBILLI was reconditioned, the air conditioning was left out on purpose. Instead TOMBILLI has  7 windows for each cabin. These windows give a very bright and comfortable atmosphere and plenty of fresh air.

Captain & Crew
Tombilli‘s captain, crew and experienced surf guide - with detailed knowledge of the area, will make your surf charter the trip of a lifetime.

Inclusions

• Return Male to Laamu internal flights
• Return Laamu airport to boat transfers
• All accommodation on the boat for the duration of your trip
• All meals
• Surf guiding

Plenty of food to go round on Tombilli,  most meals are prepared by our experienced chef in a local style. The Maldivian cuisine is very tasty and often based on rice with fish and seasoned with curry sauces or hot spices.
For vegetarians we will make special arrangements. Please let us know in advance of your trip.

Packages

Trip (D) - 6 nights/7 Days LAAMU + THAA
Normal price : AU$1940 Earlybird price : AU$1740

Depart Male in the morning for a short 45 minute scenic flight to Laamu Atoll. You will be picked up from the local airport with a refreshing welcome fruit cocktail. Then wasting no time to get you to the boat and lift the anchor to head off to one of the nearby spots. It may only take 30 minutes and you will enjoy world class tropical surf. The mission is to maximize surf time so the schedule of next days really depends on you and the weather conditions. Normally you will surf some of the 7 different spots in the Laamu Atoll first.

You will head off either to the Thaa Atoll afterwards. The Thaa Atoll is rarely surfed due to its secluded location. Tombilli will travel to the Thaa Atoll only if the weather allows.

After a few days in Thaa you return to the Laamu Atoll where you can finish your last day with another unforgettable surf session.

Trip (E) - 13 nights/14 Days LAAMU + GAAFU DHAALU Atoll or visa versa
Normal price : AU$3580 Earlybird price : AU$3130

After your first night on Male you will fly down to Laamu Atoll where you will arrive after a 45 min scenic flight on a Sunday morning. The friendly crew of TOMBILLI will wait for you directly at the local airport. With a fresh fruit juice in your hand anchors are lifted and your boat heads off to the one of 7 main spots that the Atoll offers.

You will enjoy your first full day of surfing in crystal clear water and world class surf! After a few days of surfing the area you will head down south and cross the one and a half degree channel during the night. This crossing, can get quite rough, so bring your seasickness tablets if you suffer.

Next morning you will find yourself on another dream break in Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll. The Atoll offers about 10-15 main breaks and some other less known spots.

With the local knowledge of the experienced surf guide you will spend the remainder of the trip exploring perfect and unforgettable surf spots! After 14 full days of surfing in empty breaks you will be dropped off at the local airport of the Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll and flown back to Male.

Trip (F) - 6nights/7 Days GAAFU DHAALU Atoll
Normal price : AU$1940 Earlybird price : AU$1740

You are picked up on a Sunday morning at the local airport in the Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll after a spectacular 60 minute flight from Male.

Anchors are lifted immediately and you head off to one of the main 10-15 breaks or to some of the other less known spots. The Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll offers the greatest variety of all atolls and most diverse breaks. You will find everything from mellow long board waves to the hollowest barrels you can imagine. Depending on the wind direction the experienced surf guide will find spots for you that are working best at the time. Most days you will surf up to 6 hours or even longer if you can handle it!

After 7 days of the best surf of your life, they will drop you off at the Gaafu Dhaalu airport and you will be flown back to Male.

Specifications

Length: 28 m
Width: 7 m

- 2 generator (Deutz & Onan) desalination with 2,8 tons of fresh water per day
- 2 Bauer electro compressors, 380 l/min NRC – Nitrox compressor
- Power station 220Volt
- Oxygen
- dinghy wth 40 hp outboard motor
- GPS – Phone – E-Mail – Echolot – Radio
- 2 game fishing gear
- out door shower
- Bar with alcoholic baverages
- video and photo editing station

Rental Gear:

8 Scuba Diving Sets
1 UW-housing w/w.o. Sony PC 120E digital camera
1 UW-housing w/w.o. Sony 1000E 3chip digital camera
Frogman UW-lights with LED
Daylight lamps from Multitec
3 x Multitec UW-Scooter "Scout"

Luxury is not its concept but it offers the following amenities:
- hot fresh water
- electric BAUER compressor
- NRC NITROX facility
- Espresso machine (very important)
- MULTITEC underwater scooter
- Digital underwater housings and cameras, usw

Facilities Onboard:

Sundeck
Dining Area
Bar
Smoking & Non Smoking Area
First Aid
Onboard Games
Television / DVD & VCD players
Video & Photo Camera, Editing Station
Internet & Mobile Phones
Watermaker: 2 x Sea Recovery 1500 AF giving 1500 gal/day each
Air Conditioning: Frigomar Water Chillers 156000 BTU/h


Surf Breaks

LAAMU

Spots are spread from the south facing coastline along the east facing up to the north east corner where waves wrap around. As a result you will find spots protected from all wind directions except a rare straight easterly breeze.
"Spot 01"
Right which needs large easterly swell but very well protected from southerly winds.
"Spot 02" Left+Right
Left: Very fast and hollow, sometimes closing out, well protected from westerly to northerly winds.
Right: works only in large swells. Fun Wave, Longboarders and shortboarders will have a good time.
"Spot 03" Right
Fast and shallow take off section, barelling, spitting, perfect wave with a soft ending.
"Spot 04" Left
Fun clean wave playground. When big it’s a perfect lefthander.
"Spot 05" Right
First surfed by Callahans 1996 boat trip with Pat O'Connell and Satoshi Sekino, Yin Yang got epic during Oxbow seaplane trip in June 2004. Yin Yang is a long and typical outside -typical reef corner right in a pass. Outside is a mellow wall, often cross shore, with safe rides in deep water. Then, the wave bends in the corner, mush out for a while, then wraps into one of the most critical sections in the Maldives. Inside section can be long and tubular, guys getting barreled 3 times but it can be fairly heavy too on pretty uneven reef, producing potential intimidating barrels on the first bend.


THAA

The Thaa Atoll picks up a lot of straight south to south east swell and may be even bigger than spots on east facing coastlines of other atolls. Due to its secluded location it is almost guaranteed that you will not even spot another surf charter during your stay. The spots are well protected from North to North west winds. Conditions may be fickle with other wind directions. Our operators will choose this Atoll only in very stable weather conditions.
"Spot 01" Right
Needs bigger swells as it is more protected. Can get fast and hollow, shallow sections. If it is on the rides can be pretty long.
"Spot 02" Right + Left
Powerful waves with fast, hollow walls that can produce some awesome barrels. Catches more swell than other spots in this area but is less protected to winds. When it’s on it can give you the surf of your lifetime.
"Spot 03"
Similar set up like Spot 02 but less shallow.
"Spot 04" Left
Speedy, shallow left that can produce some firing waves. When it’s on it can provide some greenroom time.


GAAFU DHAALU
It is said that the Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll (also named Huvadhoo Atoll) offers the best conditions of the Maldives. It works best in March, April and September to November. It picks up more swell than any other Atoll in the Maldives and from every direction. The Gaafu Dhaalu offers the greatest quantity and variety of spots. To almost every island on the outside of the atoll you will find one or two breaks attached. There is everything from barreling and hollow walls to soft and never ending playful waves. May to August can be fickle as the wind turns more southerly and may affect some of the south facing spots, although our operators have not yet experienced these conditions, they operate in the Laamu/Thaa/Meemu region during May to the first half of August just to be on the safe side for you.
"Kaededhdhoo or Airports" Right
Is fun when the swell is large. As it is on the west side of the atoll it doesn’t receive as much swell as the other breaks. Lucky Punters will score good at Airports with a strong S-SW swell and NE wind.
"Beacons" or "Barracuda Point" Right
2 hrs away from the airport, at the first southern reef pass. Touted as the Maldives’ gutsiest wave, Beacons powerful rights tube onto a shallow, unforgiving reef. SW swells will break down the reef, but a SE swell will create peaks slamming straight onto close-out sections of coral. Beacons is flanked by an unnamed left across the channel, which has its days in a big swell and tends to go unridden.
"Dhigulaabadhoo/ Castaways" Left
Across the channel from beacons, they call it dhiraagu after the phone company in the Maldives as the island is shaped like a phone. A sort of fat ride on the takeoff and if the swell direction is right can link up with another section on the inside where it produces a bit more speed and power, needs same wind as beacons and can be surfed on all tides. Plenty of marine life around here common to see whale sharks.
"Blue Bowls" or "Voodoos" Right
Blue Bowls is the most flexible right, tucked inside the pass and protected from SW-W Winds. More of a point style wave, it has good a length of ride and nice bowly sections for performance moves. All swells, all tides and all sizes.
"Gani Point" or "Five Islands" Right
Five Islands is another righthander that breaks hard and hollow on the shallow reef inside. The outside section encourages deep takeoffs into racy walls and handles the biggest swells at all tides.
"Booga Reef" or "Two Ways" Right+Left
Left and righthander - with the right usually coming up better but it needs a big swell to hit its protected position, making it at favourite with intermediates. Fun, peeling, long walls with a bit of depth to the water.
"Love Charms" Left
Are actually several reliable lefts, which can handle E winds and any size of swell. Low tide is the best when it is small, soft and broken into two distinct sections. Bigger swells morph into a long, hollow wall, with protected pockets.
"Rockets" or "Tiger Stripes" Left
Named after the narrow gouges in the reef that give a striped effect, Tigers has some real growling left in a strong swell. Tricky take offs into a long speedy wall before committing to an inside tube section that wraps and peters out in the channel. Unimpressive when small, it always seems to be bigger than everywhere else. All tides, all variations of S Swells and any N Wind.
"KH"
KH is almost east coast and the two distinct take off spots link together in bigger swell and tide conditions.
"Koodhoo and Viligili" Right+Left
East facing spots. Very well protected from dominant westerly winds.

Prices for all the above trip options on TOMBILLI do not include international flights, as international flight prices are determined by point of departure, availability and exchange rates at time of booking.

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