If you’re new to sailing or you’re thinking about chartering my friend Ikay and I gave a presentation on how to go from new sailor to charter boat skipper; you can watch a recording of this talk here. If you’re merely trying to fulfill a charter company’s requirements to skipper a charter read on. Simple […]
CBI to BVI – From Dinghy Sailor to Bareboat Charter Skipper
These are the slides and a video of the presentation used at Community Boating (CBI) to guide new sailors onto the path to becoming bareboat charter skippers. The slides were made for dinghy sailors, specifically those from CBI, but will be enlightening for any sailors who haven’t yet skippered a bareboat charter or two. Here […]
Grenadines Bareboat Adventure 2016
Team Yacht Sauce just hosted the world premiere of SavvySalt’s latest video. To put the “world” in “world premiere” I’d better share it before I partake fully in the festivities… without further ado: Grenadines Logistics Our research told us that we were in for a lot of tradewinds sailing that would be impacted by the […]
Dollars and Cents: How much does Bareboat Chartering Cost?
Updated 16-Oct-2019 I was surprised to find that bareboat chartering is a very economical way to vacation IF you’re willing to vacation with a boatload of your (soon to be) closest friends. Your accommodations always have unlimited access to the worlds largest infinity pool! Money Saving Tips Of course you have to be conscientious about […]
Bareboat Provisioning
The midday sun is beating down on me as I maneuver this wheelbarrow through a mob that is the line for the dockside convenience store. I give up finding a way through and carry the wheelbarrow overhead through the crowd and onto the narrow street. I find my crew unloading groceries from a cab into […]
Winter Break: Bareboat Antigua and Barbuda
Eight days in paradise with 16 of my closest friends. Watching this video makes me feel like I’m back aboard our catamaran sailing the Caribbean trades. Seasickness warning: I tried to capture the feel of sailing a boat in open water in the trades in the first few minutes; a friend or two have reported […]
Barbuda Passage Plan vs. Reality
Due to provisioning delays and a charter briefing recommendation against overnighting in Dickenson Bay given the prevailing swells we wound up leaving for Barbuda from Five Islands Harbor so the passage would be about 5nm longer than anticipated. Barbuda was the most ambitious passage of the trip so some planning had gone into it. Want […]
Antigua Bareboat Day by Day
Join us for 9 days and 8 nights chartering in Antigua. Day One – Saturday: All 17 of us made it to the Sunsail base around 4pm. Even though the boats weren’t technically ready until 6pm we were allowed to move gear aboard. Shere Khan was the 50’ monohull carrying 9 souls and Teranga III […]