CaptainJay said:

You have invested thousands of dollars in your vacation. The time to travel here and get to the boat. Investing a few hours at the dock getting to know your home for the next week to ten days can be invaluable to the quality of your trip. Know where the equipment is and have at least a fundamental knowledge of how that equipment works or if it works. Most of the issues in this thread while typical by themselves on a five year old charter boat could likely have been handled by the companies staff prior to departure if the time where allowed to do that.

Yes in a perfect world you would show up to a Bristol boat everything working perfect and sail on in perfect harmony. A lot of us in the industry try to to preform to that level but even the good companies have a bad charter from time to time.


As a company we (CYOA) have always believed in a thorough briefing and check out sail with each client tailored to the boat that the client is on. Knowing how to clear a sea water strainer or change an impeller are fairly important skills for every charter guest. No we don't expect the guests to be full blown marine technicians and all of the companies have systems set up to handle chase calls when necessary but sometimes a little self help goes a long way.