Reviews

Charter Dates: 11/02/2024-11/10/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Alex Shearer
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Seas the Day
Charter Company & Yacht
Please answer the following questions pertaining to the charter company and the yacht you chartered.
Rating of Charter Company & Yacht: 4
Upon arrival and during your charter, were the staff of the charter company friendly and accommodating?
Yes. They did not all seem to be on the same page, but maybe that is just part of chartering a boat in the BVI.
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
Yes
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
Overall yes. There was a lot of mouse feces in one of the holds, the boat did not actually have a water maker, and one of the starter batteries went out mid charter. The dinghy was a bit under inflated and then pumps on board were not useful. But, overall the boat was great!
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
yes
Was the yacht well ventilated?
yes, AC is great

Charter Dates: 11/01/2024-11/09/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Paul schmidt
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Joy
Charter Company & Yacht
Please answer the following questions pertaining to the charter company and the yacht you chartered.
Rating of Charter Company & Yacht: 5
Upon arrival and during your charter, were the staff of the charter company friendly and accommodating?
Perfect
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
Yes
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
Yes
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Pan and sharper knives would be nice. Plastic nice cups, because of being outside.
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Yes
Additional comments about the charter company and yacht you chartered?
Night before on boat, issues with shore power. Great thing captain Rae helped me turn on generators thru what’s app. Otherwise bedrooms would have no air.

Charter dates: 10/23/2024-10/31/2024
Name on Your Reservation: Timothy Taylor
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Sail Mates
Charter Company & Yacht
Please answer the following questions pertaining to the charter company and the yacht you chartered.
Rating of Charter Company & Yacht: 5
Upon arrival and during your charter, were the staff of the charter company friendly and accommodating?
Yes
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
Yes
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
Yes. Nothing except a few minor things that really didn't impact our trip at all.
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Yes
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Yes
Additional comments about the charter company and yacht you chartered?
The Navigare crew in Nanny Cay are always on top of things. They do a good job getting the boats ready and responding to last minute issues.

Charter dates: 10/23/2024-10/31/2024
Name on Your Reservation: Timothy Taylor
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Kamots
Charter Company & Yacht
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Rating of Charter Company & Yacht: 5
Upon arrival and during your charter, were the staff of the charter company friendly and accommodating?
Yes
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
Yes
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
Yes
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Yes
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Yes

Charter Dates: 10/12/2024-10/19/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Daniel Noeth
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Golden hind
Charter Company & Yacht
Please answer the following questions pertaining to the charter company and the yacht you chartered.
Rating of Charter Company & Yacht: 5
Upon arrival and during your charter, were the staff of the charter company friendly and accommodating?
Yes
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
Yes
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
Yes, minus generator battery dieing twice and we had to keep swapping it for one of the engine batteries.
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Yes, but the charcoal grill is a pain to use if there is any wind.
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Yes

Charter Dates: 10/12/2024-10/19/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Mary Lou Noeth
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: On a whim
Charter Company & Yacht
Please answer the following questions pertaining to the charter company and the yacht you chartered.
Rating of Charter Company & Yacht: 5
Upon arrival and during your charter, were the staff of the charter company friendly and accommodating?
Very
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
Yes
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
Yes
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Yes except I wished I could have found a broom to sweep the kitchen.
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Yes
Additional comments about the charter company and yacht you chartered?
Navigare was excellent! Best so far. Would definitely use them again..on a whim was a beautiful yacht! Loved everything about it from full size refrigerator to the garage door opening the back up. Wonderful

Charter Dates: 09/21/2024-10/05/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Hyde
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Edoardo
Charter Company & Yacht
Please answer the following questions pertaining to the charter company and the yacht you chartered.
Rating of Charter Company & Yacht: 4
Upon arrival and during your charter, were the staff of the charter company friendly and accommodating?
yes. The chart briefing was excellent.
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
No. the person doing the boat checkout wanted to be finished before he started. He couldn't answer basic questions like 'where are the lifejackets?' (we found them on day 3) and on the checklist, he drew a line through all items as being present and then signed it and handed it to me to sign. We were finding items, up to the last day of the 2 week charter.
No one told us despite having problems with the dockside air conditioning that in fact, dockside air conditioning is not possible on this boat as it is wired as a single 50 amp service and all docks are running 30 amps. This would have saved me many hours of troubleshooting.
Roberto P. was very helpful everytime we had a question. The other 'Roberto' who did our boat briefing was a different story.
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
yes
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Fair. The coffee making situation was very undersized for 10 people/5 cabin boat. 1 tiny espresso kettle, 1 medium espresso kettle and a very small French press.
Was the yacht well ventilated?
yes
Additional comments about the charter company and yacht you chartered?
This is our second Moorings/Sailitalia charter and there is something lost in the translation.

Charter Dates: 09/21/2024-09/28/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Dawn Cameron
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: BARRAMUNDI III!
Charter Company & Yacht
Please answer the following questions pertaining to the charter company and the yacht you chartered.
Rating of Charter Company & Yacht: 4
Upon arrival and during your charter, were the staff of the charter company friendly and accommodating?
The charter company (Navigere) is wasn’t helpful at all, except giving me the contact details information for my skipper. The skipper was awesome (Barbara) and so thorough, safe and accommodating.
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
The charter company did not, but our skipper was awesome.
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
The yacht was worn but clean. The anchor was windlass started smoking and we had to hand crank the anchor up. This caused us to have to moo and dock for two plus days until it could be replaced. The sail design was very odd and the hoisting the mainsail was a huge pain.
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Sufficient but we weren’t allowed aboard until several hours past 5:00pm.
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Yes, for the season we went.

Charter Dates: 07/05/2024-07/13/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Chris Albrecht
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Kerry Lee
Charter Company & Yacht
Please answer the following questions pertaining to the charter company and the yacht you chartered.
Rating of Charter Company & Yacht: 5
Upon arrival and during your charter, were the staff of the charter company friendly and accommodating?
Yes, our flight was cancelled and so we arrived a day late and they did a great job getting us on our boat quickly.
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
They did this with our captain since we were late.
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
Yes, everything was great. We did have our navigation screen and they quickly came to us and replaced it. Then we encountered a bad storm which broke a part on the sail and again they quickly came and fixed it and never caused an issue with our trip.
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Yes
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Yes
Additional comments about the charter company and yacht you chartered?
Highly recommend both VI Sailing and Navigare.
The quick response of Navigare will make me choose their fleet every time.

Charter Dates: 07/16/2024-07/26/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Lucas R Bennazar
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Summer
Charter Company & Yacht
Please answer the following questions pertaining to the charter company and the yacht you chartered.
Rating of Charter Company & Yacht: 5
Upon arrival and during your charter, were the staff of the charter company friendly and accommodating?
A little bit crowded, but very friendly and fast briefing.
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
Yes, detailed informative briefing
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
Excellent, no problem at all.
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Perfect!
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Yes, AC worked perfectly during our whole trip
Additional comments about the charter company and yacht you chartered?
I’ve booked with couple different companies in the past, but Navigare do the best maintenance on their vessels. I booked Summer on 2021 and the difference wasn’t much on wear and tear.