2005
Merchant Navy
Leaves Sri Lanka as a deck rating on commercial vessels. The first long horizon.
Merchant Mariner - Super Yacht Industry
From Colombo 05 to the open ocean: twenty five years of stage lights, ship decks and stories worth telling.
Colombo 05,
Sri Lanka
30 March 1983
The eldest child of the family, raised on schoolyard rugby and cricket pitches. Before the ocean, there was a classroom, a scrum, and a sixteen-year-old selling books door to door.
Narahenpita, Sri LankaIsipathana College
Under-13 through XV rugby, three age-group cricket teams. The green-and-white shaped everything that followed.
First hustle, age 16
Door-to-door book seller, hotel potter at Tangerine Beach, factory floors. Work started early and never really stopped.
CINEC
A/Ls in 2002, then Colombo International Nautical and Engineering College, the first bearing set toward the sea.
Before the sea, the stage
The first ethnic fusion rock band in Sri Lanka. Drums first, everything else after.
- 1999
The Kreators form
Co-founds the band as percussionist in Sri Lanka's first ethnic fusion rock band.
- 2000
“Sri Lankan Mix”
The breakout song that put the band on the map.
- 2002
Animal Farm & TNL Onstage
Backing band for the stage play Animal Farm; finalists at TNL Onstage.
- 2010
Kreators Reborn
The band reforms in 2009 and releases the comeback album a year later.
Two decades on deck
2008
MY Amevi
Sixteen years aboard the private and charter yacht: deckhand to deck instructor across European waters.
2020
Senior Deck Instructor
Promoted to senior deck instructor, teaching water sports on some of the world's finest yachts.
2024
MY Brother Brancusi
Joins the expedition yacht and earns promotion to bosun during his probationary period.
2025
The 96-Metre
Steps aboard a 96-metre private and charter yacht. The voyage continues.
Stories from the water
Travel and water sports, filmed where the work happens, and a standing case that Sri Lanka's coasts belong on the world's water-sports map.
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Years at sea & on stage
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Superyachts served
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Album released
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Ventures co-founded
Moments from the voyage
Cliff edges in Malta, ski slopes, sea caves and Roman streets. A life logged one port at a time.
Ventures & advocacy
2022
Universal Green Solutions
Co-founded with entrepreneur Roshan Yaheya to develop waste-conversion machinery for a cleaner Sri Lanka.
Ongoing
Isipathana Online Information Center
CEO of the alma mater's online information hub, keeping the school community connected worldwide.
Advocacy
Henry Pedris Ground
A public voice for Isipathana College's custodianship of the ground for school rugby.
Advocacy
Water Sports Tourism
Championing water sports development as a growth engine for Sri Lankan tourism.