The Moorings & Sunsail have added 78 new yachts to their BVI fleet, boosting their total to 254 vessels just in time for peak Caribbean sailing season. Discover the enhancements made to ensure an unparalleled charter experience.
What’s to know before you book and go on a charter yacht vacation? Here are seven of the most frequently asked questions and the answers:
Learn to sail programs are popular throughout the Caribbean. Learn to powerboat courses are fewer. However, they are available, either for those whose desire is recreational for chartering more confidently or helming their own vessel or for those whose aim is professional, like driving dive boats, go-fast day charter vessels or ferries or even start…
The Exumas. This island chain allows for uncrowded cruising and enjoying the laid-back Bahamian charm
The number one reason my husband and I chartered for over twenty years was because we chased a sense of freedom that we found on the water.
\There’s nothing like taking the helm of a boat, even if it’s not your own and it’s only chartered for a week. Bareboat charters, those yachting vacations where guests are in total control of the vessel including skippering and cheffing, are a must-do for many. In fact, bareboat chartering reported five straight years of growth…
Travelopia Yachts, world’s premier yacht charter business to popular brands The Moorings, Sunsail and Footloose, investment in charter products
We ask the Experts about all of the factors that go into the cost of chartering a yacht. Where do you want to go? Do you want Crew? How big? Sail or Power?
The Sunsail 464 (Lagoon 46) and Sunsail 424 (Lagoon 42) are two new additions to the Sunsail charter fleet this year. The Clearwater, Florida-headquartered company, known as a world leader in the luxury charter industry, has added these yachts as part of the company’s commitment to provide guests and owners alike outstanding charter options. The…
Cruise in company. See the world. Leave the planning to someone else. This is what several Florida-based sail charter companies offer on a flotilla vacation. These types of sailing adventures aren’t new. In fact, one of the world’s first took place in 1972 when Steve and Doris Colgate, owners of the Fort Meyers, FL-headquartered Offshore…
Sunsail, a leader in luxury yacht charters, expands its fleet with the addition of Lagoon catamarans. These spacious and feature-rich models offer an unparalleled level of comfort and performance for your next Caribbean adventure.
On the morning of our last sailing day the sun climbs over Elbow Cay in the Abacos, waking me in my berth aboard Tropical Escape II, a Sunsail 444 catamaran we’d chartered out of Marsh Harbour almost a week ago. The boat swings on her mooring, revealing pastel-painted historic Cape Cod homes nestled in a…
The Moorings and Sunsail reopened operations in St. Martin in February, just four months after the Caribbean’s record-breaking hurricane activity and just in time for the sold-out St. Maarten Heineken Regatta. Both brands are operating from their new charter base location at Marina Fort Louis, in the island’s French capital of Marigot, which will house…
Monday 1015 hours. Nelson’s Dockyard, English Harbour, Antigua. “Winds perfect, fifteen knots,” Sunsail staffer Chris Donahue says at the skipper briefing, held in a two-centuries-old building. Blue Voyage, a Sunsail Jenneau 41, is just as perfect as the winds. Perfect for anticipated seas (“Expect waves up to two meters,” warns Donahue), perfect for our…
Benoit Meesmaecker may well have earned copyright on the Heineken Light Caribbean Open Laser Championships after winning it so many times. If not, he has certainly made it his own, and his presence every year comes with that air of authority top sailors seem to have. He just happens to be in a higher league,…
As an official stopover partner of the 2014-2015 Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover, the only North American stopover from May 5 – 17, 2015; Sunsail has launched the Live Your Dreams trip giveaway that gives adventurers a chance to win a vacation of a lifetime (without the sub-zero temperatures experienced in the VOR). While the…
You don’t need to BYOB (bring your own boat) or hope for an invite to crew in order to get a front row seat racing in the Caribbean’s biggest and most exciting regattas. There are several great opportunities to charter. These include everything from renting an entire boat to signing on for a crew slot….
An early morning rain shower served as the wake-up call for the ninth edition of the Golden Rock Regatta (GRR) held November 13 to 18. Although the skies had cleared in time for the start of the first race – an exhilarating 19-mile beat from Philipsburg, St. Maarten to Gustavia, St. Barths – some of…
So you’ve finally decided to cast off, tired of prowling Caribbean docks with a bad case of nautical envy. You haven’t sold the house to sail into the sunset but at least you’ve committed both time and budget to a charter. Now where do you go? Who do you book it with? Do you have…
So this sailor walks into a bar, plunks down his money, and says, “One Bequia Blast.” Makes sense to the sailor (me). The bar sports a whale’s jawbone for an entrance arch and stools made from whale vertebrae. And it reclines beside the harbour at Port Elizabeth on Bequia in St. Vincent and the Grenadines….