Roshan Shriwastav
Roshan Shriwastav writes and edits the 77 guides on Dubai Yacht Cruise Club — practical answers about chartering in Dubai, written to be checked.
Writer and editor, guides
LinkedIn profile(opens in a new tab)What the guides are for
Roshan Shriwastav writes and edits the guides on this site — the library of practical answers about chartering on the Dubai coast that sits behind every page selling one. He has spent more than three years writing and managing content and growing social media audiences, which is the background this library is built on rather than a nautical one.
The brief for that library is narrower than it looks. A guide here is not allowed to repeat what a landing page already claims, it is not allowed to say a thing the fleet data does not support, and it is not allowed to end without answering the question in its own title. Prices come from the boats, distances and timings from the routes, and where an outside authority has published the rule — the National Center of Meteorology on a shamal, Dubai Municipality on swimming water, the RTA on getting to the Marina — the guide links to it rather than paraphrasing it.
What that produces is a library written to be checked rather than to rank, which is the only kind worth putting a name on.
The experience behind the library
Where the counts are concerned, every figure below is taken from the library at build time rather than written down, so it cannot drift from what the site actually publishes.
More than three years spent writing and editing, managing content, and growing social media audiences. That is an editorial background rather than a nautical one, which is why the guides are built the way the next section describes: nothing here is asserted from experience on the water, because that is not the experience on offer. What is on offer is a library that checks its own claims.
- Experience
- More than three years
- Works in
- Writing and editing · Content management · Growing social media audiences
- Articles published
- 77
- Topics covered
- 8
- Publishing schedule
- Three a week, Mon / Wed / Fri
- Written for
- Dubai Yacht Cruise Club
How a guide here is allowed to be wrong, and how it is not
Five rules. None of them is a preference — each one fails the build, which is why the library holds to them across sixty articles rather than across the first ten.
Enforced at build time
- One page, one query. Every article owns exactly one primary keyword and no article may claim a phrase a landing page already sells on. A library that competes with the pages it feeds sends traffic up and enquiries down, so the check runs over all 312 planned articles rather than the ones written so far.
- A link is only as live as its target. An article may only link to another article that is published by the time it is. Without that rule a guide going out in October ships a dead link on the day it is newest and most crawled.
- No date the site cannot support. A rendered date is clamped between the day the domain was registered and the day the build ran, so no page claims to predate the business or to have been written tomorrow.
- No number the fleet data does not hold. Prices, guest counts, minimum hours and boat lengths come from one source. A guide cannot state a rate by typing one.
- No proof we do not have. Trade licence, insurer, berth, rating and reviews are empty in the codebase and the components that would show them render nothing. An invented review is a fabrication with somebody's name on it, and a plausible licence number is worse than a blank.
Where a fact comes from when it is not ours
Weather, water quality, licensing and transport are not this company's to assert. Where an authority has published the rule, the guide links to the authority.
A charter operator writing that the sea is safe to swim in is an operator with an interest in the answer. Dubai Municipality tests the water and publishes the result, so the guide that covers swimming points there instead — and if the Municipality changes its position, the guide is wrong in a way a reader can discover rather than in a way only we could.
The same applies to the National Center of Meteorology on a shamal and on what a forecast actually says about a cancelled charter, to the RTA on getting to the Marina, and to u.ae on what the law requires of a boat licence. These are the questions where being trusted matters more than being read.
Where no authority has published anything, the guide says what we know and how we know it. What a two-hour sunset charter feels like minute by minute is not sourceable and is not presented as though it were.
If something here is wrong
The useful thing about a library written to be checked is that it can be. If a price has moved, a rule has changed or a route has closed, the correction is welcome and the article is edited rather than quietly left.
Send it on WhatsApp to +971 55 712 2080 with the page it is on. There is no comment form to moderate and no address that bounces — one channel, answered by the people who can actually change the page.
A corrected article keeps its URL and its publication date and gains an updated date, which is the visible half of the same change: an engine that cached the old claim can see that something moved, and a reader can see when.
The last six guides
Newest first. The full library, sorted by topic, is on the guides index.
- The Madinat Jumeirah Waterways and Souk MadinatMadinat Jumeirah is a resort complex behind the Burj Al Arab built around roughly three kilometres of artificial waterways, with wooden abras running through them.
- Solo Yacht Charter in Dubai: Can You Book a Boat Alone?Yes.
- Book a Dubai Yacht From Overseas: The Whole ProcessBook a Dubai yacht from overseas the same way you would locally: send the date, the headcount and the timing, pay a 25 percent deposit by card or transfer, and receive the berth pin the day before.
- The Dubai Fitness Challenge on the WaterfrontThe Dubai Fitness Challenge runs for thirty days from late October and asks residents for thirty minutes of activity a day.
- Yacht Speed in Knots: How Fast Does a Charter Go?A charter yacht in Dubai cruises at about 10 knots, which is roughly 18 km/h.
- An Overnight Yacht Experience in Dubai: A Night at AnchorAn overnight yacht experience in Dubai runs about 6pm to 10am and costs from AED 14,000 on a 62ft sleeping six.
A question the guides do not answer
If something here is wrong, out of date, or missing the case you are actually in, say so — it is the fastest way an article gets better.
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