Sailing Vacations Archives

Bareboat Yacht Charter – Tonga or Tahiti?

January 23, 2017/by Grant Headifen

One of our NauticEd students (Doug) called us today asking where to go on a sailing vacation. In particular, he was asking about a Bareboat Yacht Charter in Tonga or Tahiti. He had been to the Caribbean plenty of times and was looking for something a little different.

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days – day 1

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

This is the start to a 10-day blog series sailing on a Lagoon 450 with the yacht charter company BVI Yacht Charters based in Road Town, British Virgin Islands. We used approximately the 10-day itinerary in the above google maps animation.

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days – day 2

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

This is Day 2 of our sailing trip in the British Virgin Islands with BVI Yacht Charters on a Lagoon 450. Needing a little hair of the dog from Willie T’s, the crew elected to sail to Jost Van Dyke island for our next stop over in White Bay where the famous Soggy Dollar bar […]

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days – day 3 and 4

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

This is day 3 and 4 of sailing in The BVI with BVI Yacht Charters on a Lagoon 450. DROP AND GIVE ME 20 yelled Jeff as we did mountain climbers, burpies, press ups and beach sprints for a morning workout. What a way to start a day and White Bay beach is the best […]

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days – day 5

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

At the north west end of Cane Garden bay is the water and fuel dock. To start the day. we topped off with water and fuel and headed out for a sail up the north side of Tortola. The At the dock I filmed a couple of videos that we will be including in our […]

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days – day 6

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

This is Day 6 of sailing in the BVI with BVI Yacht Charters for 10 days on a Lagoon 45 Catamaran In the morning we snorkeled the coral garden in the north east end of Savannah Bay for a second time. See day 5 for a quick underwater video of the coral. This area is […]

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days day 7

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

Come along for day 7 of our trip to the British Virgin Islands with BVI Yacht Charters of a Lagoon 45 Catamaran.

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days – day 8-9-10

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

This is days 8, 9, and 10 of our 10 day sailing vacation in the British Virgin Islands with BVI Yacht Charters on a Lagoon 45 Catamaran. Day 8 Some of the crew needed to leave early and so we sailed from the idyllic Cooper Island to Roadtown so that they could meet an 11:30 ferry. We […]

Bareboat Charter Athens Greece Day 1

July 6, 2016/by Grant Headifen

We chartered a Catamaran from the Moorings in May 2016. We have to preface the whole Bareboat Charter Athens Greece report with a big OMG.

Bareboat Charter Athens Day 2

July 6, 2016/by Grant Headifen

Bareboat Charter in Athens Greece with The Moorings Sunday Day 2 Aigina – Perdika – Hydra Our plan for the week was to get going early each day so as to explore on the way then make it into the stay over port early to explore further. Our first early explore was the village of […]