charter yacht

...well the other two were business related and this is just chit chat.
I have blogged about two out of the three of our usual "treats" when we are off charter. Going to St Thomas shopping and having a town day in Roadtown. Does anyone know what the third "treat" is I have missed?
I can't wait to find out who knows that, it is "Maintenance" and guess what, that day has come around. All the boys have shown up back to work whether they wanted to or not and Bazza is in "tunnel vision" mode. As Brent said, when he saw his face this morning " talk to you about 8 tonight kerry, I see Bazza's face and I better go follow him around!"
They let Brent loose with a DRILL! No wonder he has a maniacal laugh on his face!! Apparently the heads in the aft of the yacht have 150% more power in the flushing mode of the heads then they used to. If the charters we have had later are anything to go on, this was a good thing!

I am not sure how the ROV made it here on Maintenance day....

We are getting a new trampoline put on the left side. We made it last fall, but decided not to put it on until we REALLY needed it. Apparently they cannot contact cement the old one any more, or it is getting close to the end of charter season when boys are still here to put on! You take your choice!!

Simeon made friends with one of the younger local boys yesterday, and they were feeding him sodas left and right (to his parent's dismay I bet!) Until a few hours of me listening to little feet run back and forth across the deck and climbing all over the boat and I think I said something like "enough, you can't keep him!" (Meanie I am!)

And this is just a picture of Simeon, as apparently i am just supposed to put up pictures of him for everyone's viewing pleasure!


Someone told me today that they thought he looked like Jesus! Simeon is many things but Jesus he is not! (He tells me to ** off regularly I think!) BUT I do have a funny Simeon story that some of you will find amusing.
Simeon is walking back from the store. He does that often here. A young lad comes up to him with paper and pen in hand and tells him he HAS to take it. Simeon, in his scottish way, refuses. The boy is very adamant. After going back and forth about this for a bit, Simeon takes the note, as apparently he did not have much choice. The boy said it was from a male...

Simeon starts reading and it says how this guy (who is about 20) watches him every day, and he has never sucked a male (you fill in the blank here) before and apparently, Simeon is the number one candidate for that! At the bottom of the page there is two boxes, one to circle yes, one to circle no...I will leave it to you to decide which one he circled... and leave you with that image tonight!

I had someone tell me in an email this weekend that my openings for next winter were "dismal". I guess that means I better do an entry saying what IS available.
We have great availability anywhere after August 5th up until December 19th of this year! AND the all inclusive charter price for 7 nights (except SCUBA) is $18,900. instead of $20,900 for fully crewed or $11,000 instead of $12,000. for our "a la carte" option. So that is not dismal! We will even put Thanksgiving in that category which is open.

We have a signed contract for Xmas Charter, but we are still waiting to receive the money.
We are open for New Years still (unheard of for us) from Dec 28th until Jan 4th.
Open: Between January 12th and January 29th

Then, yes it is a bit dismal. We have nothing in February. We are also full in March, except:
I have March 7th to 13th that has a hold on it, but no signed contract or deposit.
March 14th to 20th, we are waiting on deposit
March 29-April 5th, we are waiting on deposit.

IF you are confident of your dates and ready to send money, you can "challenge" any dates that have holds on them, then the party who is holding the yacht has 48 hours (during the business week) to either deposit the dates or lose them. You should be ready and willing to confirm the dates however, if you challenge them and they open up.

April 19th through 25th we have a cabin only sailing on. There is two cabins sold on it and 3 more are available!

We are then open between April 26th and May 15th.
We are open again May 24th the entire summer, except for as I just posted, Wreck Week, which is June 12th through 19th and it is available in any shape or form at the moment, you just have one more option on it! Note: IF we do sell a cabin on wreck week, then it will only be available for cabin bookings.
Typically the end of June and July is very popular with families here on Promenade, so if you are looking at any those dates, I would jump on them soon.