Electric Yachts, Expanded Insurance & New Venue Energize 2025 USVI Charter Yacht Show
Electric catamarans, new travel insurance, and a Hilton hotel debut set the stage for the 2025 USVI Charter Yacht Show in St. Thomas.
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Problem: The Dirt Bag Boater
Often different parts of a diverse community don’t understand each other. These fault lines might be along ethnic, religious, or racial lines—and my life-long religion is boats. I love boats, love boaters, and love to sail—especially in the Caribbean. Many dirt dwellers don’t understand my passion (nor enjoy being called dirt dwellers) and thus, for…
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Pentesilla II’s Allison Shivone Wins Virgin Islands Charteryacht League Culinary Competition
She was the new kid on the block at the 42nd Annual Virgin Islands Charteryacht League Culinary Competition. Yet Allison Shivone, chef aboard the Privilege 48, Pentesilla II, with husband, Dan, as captain, remembered the words of a college professor as she took her dish to the judges. That is, ‘be true to yourself’. The mantra…
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Fall Yacht Show Culinary Contest
Think of coconut as an ingredient and coconut cream pie springs to mind. Yet the sixteen chefs competing in the Virgin Islands Charteryacht League’s (VICL) 2013 Fall Yacht Show Culinary Contest didn’t make the ordinary, they created the extraordinary. A panel of five judges, which included two professional chefs (one an award winning member of…
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Seven Top Yacht Charter Trends
A sampling of the responses from crewed brokerages and bareboat companies provides a peek at the hot trends in the Caribbean charter yacht industry. 1. Business is Looking Up for Charters! Business seems better, says Ann McHorney, founder and director of Select Yachts, in St. Maarten. “More repeats are popping up.” Dick Schoonover, manager of…
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2012 St. Thomas Fall VICL Charter Yacht Show
Made beautiful by crews rising before dawn and working late into the evening, the yachts on display at the 2012 Virgin Islands Charter Yacht Show, held at St. Thomas’ Yacht Haven Grande Marina, were certainly the cream of the crop, bedazzling visitors and media partners alike with their pristine bright work, guest amenities and sincere…
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Ten Top Caribbean Yacht Charter Trends
Much has changed in the charter world since Commander Nicholson cast off on his first crewed yacht charter in 1949 and Virgin Islands’ sailors followed suit less than a decade later by chartering their homes for $400 dollars a week for a party of four. Today, yacht chartering continues to evolve and it’s shaped both…
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Brokers Tour 48 Charter Boats at 2009 St Thomas VICL Yacht Show
November 10 to 12 saw one of the most successful showings of the St. Thomas Fall Yacht Show, which was presented by the Virgin Islands Charteryacht League (VICL)
