Gandiva in frames: the sails, the cabins, the deck

Three photographs show the boat from outside, all taken from above by drone, with no people in them. In the first, four sails stand against a dusk sky, which is the picture the whole site is built around. In the second, Gandiva sails beside a small island. In the third, the light is warm and her name is painted on the bow.

Count the masts. Two masts carry the canvas, and the sails are lit gold at their edges in the dusk frame. That is the backlit silhouette we talk about on the route pages: the sun behind the boat and the sails still up.

These photographs show what the boat looks like under sail. They do not show a guarantee. A sunset depends on the sky, and the captain decides the sequence of the stops, so the evening you sail may be grey. We cannot promise the colour in the frame, only that the boat is the one in it.

Arjuna comes first, because it is the one room with a bath under the window. The photographs show the double bed, the freestanding bathtub under the windows, the private balcony and the bathroom. The towels on the bed are folded into a swan, a detail that repeats in every cabin photograph.

Nakula and Sadewa follow, two upper-deck doubles with sea-view windows. Their pictures are close to identical, and that is the point: the two cabins are matched, and the two numbers on the doors are the only difference.

Bima is next, a lower-deck double, shown with its bathroom. The last is Yudhistira, the family cabin with one double bed and two single beds. Its photographs show the lower-deck setting, with a porthole where the upper cabins have a window.

The pictures are edited in a warm teak tone. On the day the wood can read cooler than it does here. Behind each door sit a private bathroom, air conditioning, a chiller and a safe box, none of which shows well in a photograph.

The indoor lounge has sofas and a bar, and the pictures show a large screen that carries karaoke. The screens in those photographs display a stock image, not a guest. Two further photographs show the saloon from another angle.

Outside, one photograph shows the dining table on deck, set for a meal, with sofa benches and a shade roof above. Another shows a rattan daybed on the upper deck, with the deck plaque in the corner of the frame. A third shows the bow deck, with a stand-up paddle board lying on it and life rings on the rail.

Read these as a floor plan in pictures. The lounge is for company. The deck table is where meals are laid, and the daybed and the sundecks are for the light, while the bow is where the paddle boards wait for the next swim.

Nothing in the set shows other guests or the crew. You cannot judge the company from a photograph.

Every photograph on this page comes from one of two places: the boat's own photo folder, which gave us the drone frames, and the boat's published photographs, which gave us the cabins and the interiors. Our team did not take them.

The night aerial of the beach dinner needs a note. It shows lanterns set in a circle on the sand and a table in the middle. It is a dinner we can arrange on request. We quote it in writing before it is added, and it is not part of any fare. The people in it are small and cannot be identified.

We left out the photographs that show identifiable people, and no photograph here names a guest.

If a photograph does not match what you find on board, tell us. We correct the page and the alt text, and we would rather correct it than defend it.