Maybe? CYOA could add or double the fleet by adding great boats with watermakers on Puerto Rico. There are at least three fleets there now. Has anyone done the math with spending the first few days of a ten or more day charter in the SVI then making a long day sail to the North Sound when the ice aboard runs out. From North Sound or Anegada you could sail the BVI downwind until it was time to return to Puerto Rico. You would have to have crew who actually wants to sail. The distances would be long by BVI standards but the cruising norm in most of the other Carribean bases.
We always plan to take care of the boat ourselves when we leave the dock. Even if that means paying a local where we happen to be to deal with it. The "chase boat" is never part of our expectation. If one works out and delivers great. Otherwise we treat any issue just like we would on our own boat. I believe we will always charter the largest, newest boat we can find in a location where the flights will work for our dates. Like many others, we have not had a bad day on the water. I think starting a charter on Puerto Rico would work for us just as well as the charters we have started on St. Lucia and other islands.
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