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CHARTERING

NEWS and NOTES on SAILING-VACATION OPPORTUNITIES

CRUISING WORLD’S

Maine Cat Catamarans has

added a new light and fast Maine

Cat 38, Tintin, to its bareboat

fleet out of Great Abaco Island,

Bahamas. Offshore passages

of three to four days are avail-

able this June with Capt. Ralph

Drahos and his wife, Arlene, as

Tintin makes its way north for

the bareboat charter season in

midcoast Maine. Summer char-

ters out of Rockland, Maine,

run from July 9 to October 1 and

last a minimum of seven days. A

maximum of five people are per-

mitted; a 10 percent discount

is offered for additional weeks.

For details, contact the company

(mecat.com).

CREWED NEWS

This year, The Moorings

debuts various cabin layouts

for its flagship crewed cata-

maran, the Moorings 5800, in

the Seychelles in June and in

Croatia in August. The lux-

ury charter boat, which comes

with captain, chef and host,

can take eight to 10 guests. For

details about all cabin layouts

and maximum guest capacities

as well as destinations, visit the

company website (moorings

.com/5800).

Burma Boating offers crewed

charters aboard a fleet of classic

sailboats from 50 to more than

100 feet in length in Myanmar’s

Mergui Archipelago. The group

of 800 pristine islands is situ-

ated near the Thailand border

and only an hour away from

Bangkok. For details, contact the

company (burmaboating.com).

Zephyrus, a crewed 50-foot

Beneteau sloop that can

accommodate up to six guests,

offers U.S. citizens people-t o-

people exchange charters from

Key West to Cuba and back. For

details, contact Nicholson Yacht

Charters (yachtvacations.com).

PASSPORT RENEWAL

REMINDER

Since 2006, Americans have

been required by federal law to

show passports for returns via

air to the United States from

Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean

and Bermuda. The U.S. State

Department has issued a

reminder urging against renewal

procrastination. Applications

and renewals can take a month

or longer to process; make

sure you don’t inadvertently

ruin your sailing vacation. For

details on rules and regulations,

including whether driver’s

licenses and other forms of

identification are valid for

international travel, log on to

the passport section of the

federal government website

(passports.state.gov).

LEOPARD POWER

CAT ADDED IN

FLORIDA

True Love, a Leopard 37

power catamaran, has joined

Southwest Florida Yachts.

Based with the company’s

power fleet at Tarpon Point

Marina in Cape Coral, it’s

offered with discounts of 5

percent off in June, 10 per-

cent off in July, 12 percent off

in August and 15 percent off in

September. Charters must be

three days or longer and begin

and end in the month of the

promotion. For details, contact

the company (swfyachts.com).

— Elaine Lembo

COMPANIES

ADVERTISING THIS

MONTH

The Moorings

888-703-3176 p.113

Sunsail

800-797-5307 p.119

GoCats Charters*

800-592-1254 p.122

Kiracoulis

800-714-3471 p.125

Dream Yacht Charters

866-776-8256 p.121

Tortola Marine Management

Ltd.

800-633-0155 p.117

The Catamaran Company

800-262-0308 p.114-115

Footloose Sailing Charters

855-217-9217 p.126

Conch Charters Ltd.*

877-521-8939 p.116

Barefoot Yacht Charters*

784-456-9526 p.127

CYOA Yacht Charters

800-944-2962 p.123

Pro Valor Charters

866-776-8256 p.124

Sail Caribe

866-381-7609 p.123

Southwest Florida Yachts*

800-262-7939 p.125

Cruise Abaco

321-473-4423 p.124

Cruise Annapolis

443-949-9481 p.125

Harmony Yacht Vacations

888-542-2667 p.122

BROKERS

Ed Hamilton & Co.

800-621-7855 p.122

The Globe Sailor

646-453-6602 p.121

COURTESY OF NAVTOURS

*Also broker

This directory is a list of charter companies

advertising in this charter section; it is not

an endorsement by the editors. Classified

advertisers not listed. Listings are arranged

in fleet size order.

“Charter companies” listed maintain fleets

of bareboats and report that they maintain

chase boats/personnel, carry liability

insurance, return security deposits in 10

working days, deliver the boat contracted (or

same size, type, age, condition, or better),

supply MOB gear and offer pre-charter

briefings. “Brokers” are not affiliated with

any charter company; they book private or

company-owned boats, crewed or bareboat.

SUMMERTIME: SAIL LAKE CHAMPLAIN,

MIDCOAST MAINE

Navtours, which has monohulls and catamarans at its bases in the

Bahamas — George Town, Grand Exuma Island and Nassau — also

offers boats on Lake Champlain from a base in Plattsburgh, New

York, in summer. For details, contact the company (navtours.com).

Navtours now

offers bareboat

charters aboard

monohulls and

cats up to 40 feet

at its base on

Lake Champlain.