Continuing with our series of posts that address things that people write to us about, and probably a lot of stuff you don’t need or never wanted to know either. Let me now address the issue of phone communications and Internet access while on a chartered yacht or catamaran in the BVI. People are divided…
If you are planning a special event in Miami, Miami Beach or Fort Lauderdale or, basically, from Palm Beach Southwards you should seriously consider one of our special party yachts for your event. We have boats of all sizes and shapes with capacity from 2 guests to 500. The best of South Florida is always…
If you have not chartered a yacht before, here’s a handy-dandy primer, or chartering guide 101, for your first charter experience. The idea of chartering a yacht, whether it be in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean or other exotic destinations, may seem a little daunting if it’s your first time. Here’s how to make it simple. For starters,…
Gulets are some of the most amazingly comfortable boats anywhere in the world. The word Gulet gave birth to the French “Golette” and the Spanish “Goleta”, the Italian Gulletta, and probably the English “Cutter”. There has been some discussion among academics as to whose loanword it really is, but it’s really unimportant where the word…
We have been lucky to take a trip with our friends aboard the sailing catamaran COOL CHANGE about chartering in the Grenadine Islands in the South Eastern Caribbean (Windward Islands). We are happy to reproduce the article here. Thank you guys very much for all this valuable first hand information. Booking Charters in the Grenadines…
A honeymoon or Luna de Miel as they say in Spanish should be memorable, exciting and romantic. Made up of all those little moments that last a lifetime in your memories. How to achieve that? Well, one idea that comes to mind is to take a trip on a private charter yacht in the Caribbean…
This is an update on the 2013 BVI Yacht Charter Show. Forgive us for being a little smug but now that the official results are in and it turns out that we did pick most of the Charter Yacht Society’s winners and runners-up of last weeks charter yacht show in Nanny Cay, Tortola. Here are…
This show is a delight as always. Extremely well organized, thanks to the committee headed by Sara Sebastian; thanks, as always, Sara. This show is definitely da bomb for us medium and smaller booking agents because of the substantial mega-yacht presence. It allows us to view and talk to the crews of yachts that we would normally…
The Best in Class awards were pretty accurate in our view. We are very proud to have such wonderful yachts to offer to our prize yacht charterers. Best Monohull sailing yacht was awarded to BLUE PASSION a lovely new 2010 Beneteau with all the bells and whistles, Chef / First Mate Vanessa is a…
We made our annual pilgrimage to the Tortola charter yacht show last week. Highlight of our trip however was the pre-show fam trip we were invited on by Voyage Yacht Charters – spent 2 days on a lovely Voyage 58′ catamaran with a new crew. Ate waaay too much and enjoyed it waaay too much…!!…