We just got back from our first bareboat powercat charter - June 3-10. It was a fantastic trip & we have already booked again for next year.

We chartered out of the Moorings base out of Road City, Tortola (which was the company we used to do our powerboating course). The folks at Moorings were organized & communicative. Having never used any other company, I don’t have a good frame of reference, but they certainly answered all my questions quickly & clearly.

Our trip was entirely within the BVI (we are also US citizens). Half our party flew Delta into San Juan & then switched to Silver airlines for a direct flight to Tortola. The other half flew into St. Thomas & took Dolphin Water Taxi to meet up with us on Tortola. Next year we will all go through STT. Dolphin WT is super responsive & makes clearing customs very easy. Apparently, American Airlines is starting flights directly to Tortola (which won’t work for us, but might be a nice option).

No trip to the BVI is ever long enough, but 7 nights worked well for us. We hit most of the spots our group wanted to see.

Have a great trip!