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Re: 1st time charter
[Re: txjustin]
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04/01/2015 01:52 PM
04/01/2015 01:52 PM
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Since you're starting from scratch...
Recommend you take a few classes.
One thing that is underestimated, IMHO, is the amount you need to know about cruising boats. There are a lot of moving parts, subsystems. You will be the hotelier during your cruise. You will be responsible for fuel, water, electricity, and refrigeration for everyone, as well as keeping the mechanical systems running. You'll also be the weatherman and doctor. It's very helpful to be mechanically inclined, or take a course focused in this area. It's also helpful to know first aid. If you don't, a class would be good. It's also good to know weather. Again, there are classes.
Once you do a few courses the next step would be a cabin charter on a boat with a captain, and then next you should charter with a captain, ideally with the organization you would do a bareboat charter with the next year.
It all could take 3-4 years doing it part-time in 2-3 week stints per year.
If you have much more free time it could be done in 6-12 months.
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Re: 1st time charter
[Re: txjustin]
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04/01/2015 02:45 PM
04/01/2015 02:45 PM
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I managed to get myself invited to the BVI to sail a couple of times, and loved it so much that I took "Colgate Learn to Sail" and "Colgate Learn to Bareboat." I also took a local Coast Guard safety course. Next time I came to the BVI, my friend listed me as a co-charterer. When I sought to charter on my own the fifth time, I literally submitted a sailing resume which included prior sails, copies of my certificates, and copies of my previous invoices with that company. Sailing a 45 foot monohull is not a lot different than sailing a 18' learning sailboat, but as others have noted, it's all the other stuff - anchoring (although not as common in the BVI now), diesel engines, marine radios, marine heads, etc). But if you can find somebody to sail with once in the BVI, you will learn more than you can imagine just by doing so under supervision. And you will be hooked!
"If we weren't all crazy we would go insane!"
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