An idea for TCM.....

[petem]

How about shipping the boat over to the Carrib for the winter, Superyacht style? I'm guessing, £20k each way? Easily recouped from the odd charter. Then you wouldn't have to charter one of those saily things that you almost manage to sink each christmas.

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[tcm]

Re: Carib in a motorboat

I had thought of this. But then I though ner. Cos oh gawd, except from around anchorages, and in the protection of island groups such as the virgin islands and erm well that's it ....you are at the wrong end of a steady force 4 or 5 all day and all night. This is great in a saily boat - the wind is always always from the East, mebe NE mebbe SE - trade winds, see, so they ran businesses (er slave trade..) on it. But in a powerboat, the BVI ain't quite big enough for more than a weeks pootling about imho, and going anywhere else would be a bit of a rolling grind.

Motorboatywise you'd need to be either

1) in the BVI with a Trader boat (think Deleted User has done this) with aircon so you can shutthe doors against the mossies and after having dosed up on antihystamine and eating a load of garlic tablets and sleeping undr mossi nets. But it would be all a bit tame, the area too small, the sea a bit rolly outside BVI, and no discernabnle advantage over a saily boat really. Unlike lazy superflat calm days or evenings in med and UK, when har har no wind should have bort a powerboat - there is no such day in the winter caribean, ever.

2) in the BVI with monster 2 x 200 horsepower blam blam 24 foot dayboat and stay at the Peter Island Resort or simiklar. This is a bit more like it. Tee hee. Woosh. Could do the BVI in a day. Or even half a day.

3) in a very very big displacement superyacht.

So, fraid i will be bimbling around with the raggies again.

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[Deleted User YDKXO]

Re: Carib in a motorboat

Agree with you, a raggie boat is the best way to go in the BVI, preferably an effing big cat with loads of deck space and anchoring stability. We did charter a motor boat for our 2 week honeymoon and found we got too quickly to where we wanted to go so I started going 'round the outside' and, you're right, those constant trades work up a nice rolling sea but nothing untoward. Agree with you ref. Peter Island. What a fab spot. 2 weeks there + a whizzy speed boat would be another great way to see the islands
Definitely need aircon though. Our boat was supposed to have it but it wasnt working. I got slaughtered by mozzies on the first night. That + the heat + the painkillers made for not much honeymoon rumpy pumpy

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