LianeLeTendre said:
I did a couple of deliveries from Guadeloupe to Tortola more than 20 years ago for a company that is no longer in business. I was amazed at how little was aboard those yachts.

I vowed I would never do it again. We didn't have any safety equipment except a life ring on that last boat! If I hadn't been too broke to buy a plane ticket back to Tortola, I would have told them to find someone else. We left Guadeloupe on a Sunday and the base manager there was annoyed that we had disturbed his day off. He couldn't have cared less if the boat was delivered safely or not.

The depth finder hadn't been hooked up, the radio didn't work and the mast light worked for a while and then didn't. We were boarded by the Coast Guard just before reaching Round Rock and were given all sorts of citations.