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Old 09-03-2008, 05:41 PM   #1
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Afternoon folks,

i've posted a similar question on anther cruising site in the hopes that I can reach the widest knowledgeabl audience as possible, so apologies for those who have already seen this post. However, two friends of mine and I have taken the all-important first step of signing up for some RYA classes so we can get certificed, gain some valuable knowledge, and get our ambitious plan to sail the Caribbean, through the canal, and up the West Coast of the US in spring/summer/fall '09 off the ground. We shall be spending several weekends this fall sailing out of the South Coast of England (i'm sure the weather will be lovely come November...) in perparation.

While the plan has always been to buy a boat and sell on the otherside (or maybe just keep going to Hawaii and never look back...) as a back-up plan (assuming someone bails on the plan and our financial strength is diminished or the length of the intended trip is shortened dramatically) is there any way to bareboat charter for an extended period of time in the Caribbean? For example, if instead of buying a boat on the east coast of the US/in the Caribbean, we decide to charter a boat, is it possible and how much would it cost?

Lets assume:

-40 footish reasonably new (2002 or later 3 cabin/2 head) boat

-3 months (from Mar 1. to Jun 1.); what about 6 months?

-plan to sail all over the Caribbean (or at least as much as we can during that time period); i.e. no restrictions on where we can go.

Do people do this? Is it possible? Is it a financially viable option?

Any help is greatly appreciated

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-40 footish reasonably new (2002 or later 3 cabin/2 head) boat

-3 months (from Mar 1. to Jun 1.); what about 6 months?


-plan to sail all over the Caribbean (or at least as much as we can during that time period); i.e. no restrictions on where we can go.
For a start, I think you can get your answers on the charter option by Googling "Caribbean charter companies" - get it straight from the horse's mouth. Prices, area allowed and length of charter.

Then you can plan from there to investigate other options.

Good luck with what you can find.
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I've looked into this myself in the past, and couldn't find a charter company willing to reduce its rates for the long term. I found I could buy a used boat for about the same amount of money that 6 months of chartering would cost.

I thought it could work because I met a guy in Germany who had done something like that but it was a private charter, not through a charter company. He might have been lucky, and I think he found the boat through contacts in his local yacht club.

You know, taking a course isn't the same thing as getting experience by being on the water, and based on my own experience and thinking about some of the dumb things that I've done, I wouldn't let a rank beginner take my boat out of sight of land for several months no matter how much he paid me. You'd be smart to get some real experience on real boats first.

The Caribbean isn't for amatures.
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