| Title: | SAILING |
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| Created: | Wed Jul 01 1992 |
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Summer breezes lead to Autumn sneezes and send me to the south.
We have booked a charter through CYC in the Virgin Islands on a
Hylas 44 for the last two weeks in October. Anyone else going
to be down there at the same time? Any interest in a possible
rendezvous? Any information on Culebra out there? It seems to
be getting alot of press in the magazines lately. Has anyone out
there taken their own food with them especially meats versus
provisioning upon arrival?
Brian_who_is_unfortunately_wishing_away_his_summer
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| 917.1 | BUY IT YOURSELF! | GERBIL::PACL | Thu Jul 21 1988 13:48 | 12 | |
I'm not quite sure where you're chartering out of BVI or USVI but
the USVI is well equipped with supermarkets should you do your own
provisioning (Roadtown, Tortola much less so). Personally, I've
gone the route of provisioning packages on charters and been fairly
unimpressed. It's somewhat more expensive, you get some food that will
probably not be to all of your crew's taste, and you end up with
too little or too much of different items. In short, grocery shopping,
while a pain, is worth it to me but we take our food fairly seriously.
For a two week charter, you would probably want to make a mid-cruise
shooping trip.
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| 917.2 | What about buying here and taking it down? | P928S4::MCBRIDE | Thu Jul 21 1988 14:12 | 15 | |
We are going out of St. Thomas. The first time we went we had the
charter company do all of the provisioning for us. WHile the quality
of the food was good, the proportion of certain commodities was
very imbalanced ie we had no need for eight dozen eggs for 4 people
and 10 days. Last year we went with a different company and requested
split provisions and purchased the remainder of the stuff upon arrival.
This seemed to work out well. The only hassle was getting to and
from the store but the charterer provided a shuttle to and from
the store which minimized the pain. The question was really from one
of our crew who has been told that prices are outrageously expensive
and we would do well to deep freeze our meats here any take them
with us. Curious if anyone had tried this and what kind of experience
they had. I personally do not care for the idea of lugging a cooler
along with all of our other gear.
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| 917.3 | TWINS::RZESZUTKO | Tue Jul 26 1988 14:18 | 14 | ||
It's been about 7 yrs since I've been to Culebra, but, if memory
serves me correctly, it's about half way between Charlotte Amalie
in St. Thomas and Puerta Vahharta in Puerto Rico. It's a full
day's sail in between. Culebra is small, not much going on there. It's
language is Spanish; cobble-stone streets are very narrow and I saw
more burrows for transportation than cars. The area around the island
has reefs (not necessarily on the charts) that you need to be careful
of.
This was 7 years ago. Things may have changed.
chris
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