Reviews

Charter Dates: 02/16/2024 - 02/24/2024
Name on Your Reservation: David Cox
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Bella Fortuna
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. Check out was smooth. Check in was even better.
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?
All but the water generating system by Parker Hannifin. It did not work and on check in we were informed it was a problem with the units on all 464.
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Yes
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Yes

Charter Dates: 01/18/2024-01/26/2024

Name on Your Reservation: David Stalfort
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Tabula Rasa
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, the Moorings staff was very professional. The facilities on shore were first class.
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
Yes, several people help us.
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
Yes. The Moorings Tech staff were very responsive to the list of minor issues that we found, even during our voyage.
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Very well equipped and we had a professional chef on board.
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Yes. The hatches and generator/ AC worked great. However three of the five of us developed allergies - perhaps from mold or mildew in the boat.
Additional comments about the charter company and yacht you chartered?
The Mooring staff was great. The boat was well equipped and in great shape.
Cruising Area

Did you like the area you chartered in?
Absolutely!

Charter Dates: 01/22/2024-01/29/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Michael Mouland
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Christine
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?
Moorings staff was very informative about local travel arrangements and sailing destinations.
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
Yes. We had a quick checkout and a rundown of how to reset various breakers and equipment. One breaker for the generator was difficult to find as it had not been covered in the checkout. We had to call tech support at the base for instructions on accessing it
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
The boat interior was clean and ready to go. The port bilge had not been flushed/cleaned and resulted in a smelly boat. The auto bilge pump turned out to be faulty and we cleaned and flushed the bilge with seawater and pumped out the bilge with the manual pump. Some other items were noted as needing maintenance, such as the cup wind instrument atop the mast. Otherwise the rigging, sails, and lines were in excellent shape.
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Yes. The galley and cooking supplies were great. There was a very well-equipped bbq set.
Was the yacht well ventilated?
Due to a faulty bilge pump a bad odour permeated the boat until the bilge was rinsed with seawater ( see above).
Additional comments about the charter company and yacht you chartered?
We would choose Moorings again. The company runs a great operation. Its base facilities are super and the staff is helpful and plentiful.

Charter Dates: 01/19/2024-01/28/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Alexander Uslontsev
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Sea Rock
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
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?
We had to buy our own SIM card and a wifi router. I would expect that internet connectivity on the boat would be included into the charter or be available as easily paid option.

Minor issues
- Could not rent Starlink
- Count not rent guitar
Cruising Area

Did you like the area you chartered in?
Yes

Charter Dates: 01/04/2024-01/12/2024

Name on Your Reservation: John Armstrong
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: LUCY ANNA
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!
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
I would say yes BUT.
In my opinion the person that does the familiarization with the boat for a new captain on a boat he has not taken out before should be a person with actual captain experience to be able to answer specific real life questions about its operation. Example would be knowing the fuel burn and speed expected to allow a new captain to plan according to real world experience with that boat.
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
Yes. It was a nearly new boat only out 3 times.
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
Yes
Was the yacht well ventilated?
No - it was fine but the design of this particular boat leaves something to be desired in this area. There are no ports for ventilation in the main cabin and the ports in the sleeping quarters have to be closed while underway due to spray and the front saloon door must be closed underway. This means that one must either run the AC or get by with only the rear sliding doors which don't actually ventilate the cabin underway. Its a design issue with this boat.
Additional comments about the charter company and yacht you chartered?
We loved the very usable spaces on the Leopard 46! The flybridge turned out to be where we ate every meal as the enclosures on the flight bridge made that very usable space. Please note that the pre-sales info showed the boats with a coffee table in the Saloon area not a table top. The boat came with a folding table there which made that area also possible for meals which we used also. A coffee table there would have been a real downer and that is what we were told to expect. Delighted it turned out to be a usable table.

The sleeping cabins and heads on this particular boat were not our favorites compared to others we've chartered. But again the common areas were really nice and we used all of them.

The inside helm station was very uncomfortable and I could not imagine using in a bumpy crossing. This was due to the back rest position.

The Ray Marine System of controlling the lights and equipment via the touch screen was cute but quite annoying over time to use. Would prefer if there was an app so one could control from phone or just manual switches. There were many a time we went to the flybridge and had to go back down to turn on the flybridge equipment first from the screen and then had to wait for the system to boot.

The davit system is unsafe on this boat. The moorings should not order these boats with a winch line davit. The pulleys and winch are undersized and were strained and would skip gears and its going to break (have had that happen to us before). The mfg has a beautiful lift system that should be the standard. I won't charter this boat with that davit system again if I have an option for a lift.

All the staff at the Moorings were great and heads and shoulders above the other companies we've used. Super high marks for the Moorings team!

Charter Dates: 01/06/2024-01/13/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Steve Banks
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Crispy
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?
Fairly good
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: 12/17/2023-12/24/2024

Name on Your Reservation: Alfred BONAHOOM
Boat Name: Olegado
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, very friendly, and really a very nice base by the Moorings in Grenada.
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, it was brand new.
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 moorings is doing it right

Charter Dates: 11/03/2023-11/11/2023

Name on Your Reservation: Michael P Ferris
Are you the Lead Charterer or a Guest? Lead Charterer
Boat Name: Believe
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?
The Mooring staff were exceptional.
Did the staff do a good job familiarizing you with the yacht and its equipment?
Very thorough briefing.
Was the yacht clean and in good working condition?
No problems with the yacht. Everything clean and in good working order.
Was the yacht's cooking and cleaning equipment sufficient?
No problems
Was the yacht well ventilated?
A/C was extremely effective. The boat ventilated well when opened up.
Additional comments about the charter company and yacht you chartered?
The Moorings is a top rated company in my opinion. Every need was cheerfully met.
The yacht, Leopard 50, is the best sailing catamaran we have chartered. It points well and sails closer to the wind than other cats. The sail plan is efficiently laid out and easy to manage,