sail445 said:
Give me a break.
Sailing the VI should not be about the Capt but about being with your friends exploring and enjoying the bueaty of the islands.
I'm guessing that post needs blue font or something as surely you jest. About a dozen years ago we put a boat in charter with TMM. Barney at TMM set us up with Simon Wood who was their instructional skipper at the time for 5 days. We had a blast. It has resulted in a close friendship with Simon and Heather. Nearly every trip down we find Time to get together for a day on the water or a dinner out.
A friend here locally in the states did my wife a huge favor and would not accept his fee for the service. So we arranged a trip for them and another couple on our boat with Simon at no expense. They too became fast friends with Simon, took the ASA courses through TMM with Simon and for many years have chartered bareboat cats from TMM a couple times a year. Always like us they will nearly always meet up with Simon to go diving or have dinner. Another life long friendship because of the happenstance of having the right skipper that first visit.
Simon quit doing charters several years ago and he and Heather have a day charter business Caribbean Image Tours BVI that was rated the top BVI daytrip in the Islands last year. R
The personality of a charter skipper is all important. It can make that first adventure the first of a new found passion or the trip from hell.
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