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Bareboat cruising in the British Virgin Islands
By Tina BorgattaPublished: October 01, 2009
For eight days, we lived on a boat and cruised the crystal waters of the Caribbean. We explored some islands where the population ranged anywhere from zero to 250. We swam with the exotic fish that lived below us. And we bathed in the rain that fell from the sky during daily tropical showers.
OK, so we didn’t really have to bathe in the rain. That was just for fun. And it really wasn’t just “a boat,” but rather a twin-engine 47-foot catamaran with four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a kitchen stocked with food and equipped with an oven, a stove, a
microwave and a coffee maker.
But it was a bareboat charter, meaning we crewed it ourselves – my husband, Art, and I, with another couple (the Marshalls: Tim, a respiratory therapist at CHOC, and Christi, an emergency room nurse at St. Joseph Hospital). We navigated from one island to the next on our own. Of course, it helped that all the islands were in our line of sight.
It was a wonderful adventure. We were able to make our way into bays where big cruise ships can’t, and we ventured to off-the-beaten-path towns where most visiting landlubbers wouldn’t think to go.
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OK, so we didn’t really have to bathe in the rain. That was just for fun. And it really wasn’t just “a boat,” but rather a twin-engine 47-foot catamaran with four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a kitchen stocked with food and equipped with an oven, a stove, a microwave and a coffee maker. But it was a bareboat charter, meaning we crewed it ourselves – my husband, Art, and I, with another couple (the Marshalls: Tim, a respiratory therapist at CHOC, and Christi, an emergency room nurse at St. Joseph Hospital). We navigated from one island to the next on our own. Of course, it helped that all the islands were in our line of sight. It was a wonderful adventure. We were able to make our way into bays where big cruise ships can’t, and we ventured to off-the-beaten-path towns where most visiting landlubbers wouldn’t think to go. |
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