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[Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>]

for Paula and others interested ... this is my dad's quick recollection.  
i might get more details from him later on.
--s

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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:22:09 -0600
From: jgreene
Subject: RE: Adventure Awaits (fwd)

The company we did ours with is called The Moorings...we still have
info... basically we leased a fully equipped 50' sailboat for a week.

in our case [one of the group] was a qualified captain so the rest of us 
were crew (the company would only lease out to a qualified person)...but 
we picked out a menu (they then bought the food and delivered to boat the 
morning we were leaving); we packed the food in, loaded our gear, then 
sailed around the British Virgin Islands anywhere we wanted to go, stopped 
when we wanted to stop, anchored over in a different place each night, 
some days sailed all day, some days visited an island and the "sights" and
had lunch...all on our own timetable

...cost probably $1500-2000 per person for the week (I think this included 
flight costs to BVI)...

you can do the same trip with a captain and cook but of coarse that adds 
to cost (I'm not sure how much, I may have some cost info at home...will 
check and advise)...highly recommend the concept.


-----Original Message-----
From: Sil Greene 
Subject: Re: Adventure Awaits (fwd)


Hey mom & dad,

A friend of mine sent the message below to me (and others) ... it
sounded like what you guys did with Janice & Ed a few years ago (and 
Captain Charlie? was that his name?).

Can you provide any details on what your trip consisted of, what sort 
of costs per person were involved, etc?  If you still have contact info 
for the boat you chartered that'd be helpful too.

Thanks,
--Sil

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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:48:41 -0500
From: childers.paula
Subject: Re: Adventure Awaits


Speaking of adventure... ;-)

No seriously, I want to ask a weird question (or three) on this here
Friday afternoon. Have any of you ever chartered a boat, preferably a
sailboat, in Georgia or Florida?  Know any captains or small companies
that run such? And any idea of how much such a thing would cost???

Here's what I'm thinking of:  Small-to-medium-sized boat (with crew,
since I don't know how to sail!), full (basic OK) facilities for living
and bunking at least 5 (3 paying travelers, and the boat crew), sailing
from Miami, ambling around the Keys and Caribbean for a week or so
around Spring Break time.  [We are oh SO not the cruise ship types.]
Plan would be to visit out-of-the-way places and experience true low-key
ocean/island life, with probably some hiking on various islands and
perhaps some snorkeling and critter-watching.

Since this would prevent the need for plane tickets, hotel rooms, and
rental cars, we could collectively drop a fair amount on it, but I have
no idea if our "fair amount" is anywhere near *their* "fair amount."

Pretty odd questions for a bunch of IRC'ing, PHP'ing, cluster-debating,
pasty-faced geeks in North Carolina, but you never know. ;-)

Paula