Charter: Where are the Best Places?
November 18, 2024
To answer that unanswerable question, the best is what you make of it.
To answer that unanswerable question, the best is what you make of it.
Crew on charter can surprise, exasperate, and entertain—sometimes all at once.
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The first day of any charter means a mountain of responsibilities for the skipper and extended periods of hurry-up-and-wait for the rest of the crew.
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Cape Charles, Virginia I’d been to Cape Charles many times by land before sailing in, and it was worth the wait to arrive by boat.
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It’s a well-accepted truth of offshore sailing that things get more dangerous the closer you get to land. An extension of that axiom in chartering
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You climb from your berth and start the stove for coffee, warming the cabin. You check your position, looking out the ports as the sun
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