Vacations are a major way families create memories that can be carried around like living, breathing slide shows inside our heads and come alive again in the retelling.
A lot of care and consideration is given to the timing, planning and budget for these annual events. Not too surprising, when one family member catches the sailing bug, they would want to share their love of sailing with the family, and it’s usually an easy sell to get them to come along. When asking a family if they would like to go to the caribbean for vacation, it’s not often you hear the response, “No thanks, we’d rather watch Dancing with the Stars.”
The budget is often a primary consideration when cruising with a family, as opposed to just a couple, or a single person. When done right, a sailing vacation can cost about the same as many other family vacation ideas.
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June is a good month to go to the Caribbean as the kids are out of school, the weather is good and rates are not yet at their peak. . . BVI in particular is arguably the best place to bring kids on a bareboat cruise. The distance between harbors and anchorages is short, there's swimming and snorkeling just about everywhere, and the sailing area is well sheltered from the big ocean waves that are encountered elsewhere. It's also a place where English is spoken, the currency is the U.S. dollar, and security is not an issue.
Be sure to check out our
BVI Sailing Vacations Slide show on Picasa for a look at some of our past sailing vacations, and if enough people are interested, we can put together a Group Sailing Vacation for everyone and you can take advantage of group rates.
The logistics will be similar to our
December BVI trips. We can fly out Thursday evening June 7 or 14 and arrive in Tortola early Friday afternoon to board the boats. Then we'll sail out Saturday morning to begin the week's bareboat cruise, finishing the following Saturday. That night we'll stay at the Mariner Inn at the charter base and fly home the next morning in order to get back to the Bay Area Sunday evening. The cost and what's included will be the same as the December trip. If you are qualified to skipper a boat and you know another family or two that’s interested in coming along, you can all split the cost of chartering the boat. Depending on how many people are coming, this could bring down the per person cost for the vacation even further.
So, what do you think? If you are interested, please contact me at bob@spinnakersailing.com so I can start putting it together while there is still time.
