Or, with the new cruising tax, you can be your own ferry! On an 8-day charter starting June 14 with a crew of 11, we paid $66 in BVI cruising fees, but $1,000 in round trip ferry fares. And we had to endure C&I in Road Town. After August 1, the cruising tax for that trip would be $528 for a BVI - based boat, plus the $1,000 in ferry fares, or roughly $1,500. Or, we could avoid the ferry and Road Town C&I by chartering out of St Thomas, and pay a BVI cruising tax of $1,408. While the captain sanely cleared the crew in and out at West End, they could spend the $100 "savings" on painkillers! I wonder if the BVI government realizes that it has just created an incentive for BVI-bound charterers to favor St Thomas bases over BVI bases, and to avoid the dreaded ferries? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" />