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Subject: Re: [worldcruising] Bareboat Chartering - How much experience do you need?
From: Russ Swan (ruswan@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Aug 17 2001 - 04:04:24 EDT
Hi,
Like everything else I reckon you have to look around and see what the bareboat companies will accept in the way of experience.
If I was running such a company I think I might want to only attract experienced people too, and perhaps try to include a skipper with the inexperienced ones. I guess you might call it self protection...but then there are some dumb buggars out there too :)
Before I bought my first cruising sailboat I did a bareboat charter and was a bit concerned about whether they would let me take one of their boats out by myself. I'd only done an introductory lesson. But the bloke I dealt with admitted that I didn't sound or act like a dunce so he was happy to take me out for a test before the final decision to let me go solo. Obviously I wasn't a Gomer Pyle and off I went and subsequently got knocked down by a wind-bullet and rained on... but a great trip nontheless.
Be prepared for a test. They might call it an introductory sail but really it will be a test whether you have the proverbial common-dog brains or not. ... or just an educated idiot :)
Ring 'em up and chat to them... and why go all that way anyway. Don't you have something a bit closer to home for your first tryout?
Cheers,
Russ Swan
Lowana IV
Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: furriskey@XXX.XXX
To: worldcruising-X-yahoogroups.com@XXX.XXX
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 3:25 AM
Subject: [worldcruising] Bareboat Chartering - How much experience do you need?
Hello,
My dream is to one day have my own boat for cruising and maybe
living on - but to get a taste for it I'd like to charter this winter.
I have only done a basic keelboat sailing course, I have a friend
with much more experience who may come with me. I understand that
charter companies can provide a skipper - and even training, but I'm
curious as to what level of experience they usually require for
bareboat.
On the same note - can anyone recommend a good charter company? Are
the Virgin Islands a good place to go? Is a Benetau 510 a good boat ?
(I'd like to try a 50' boat.)
Sorry for all the questions in one post, but thanks in advance.
-e
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