What you should expect on your sailing adventure Itineraries / Packages Sample itineraries: From a ½ day to a week long live aboard we can work with you to fashion a memorable sailing experience around the Florida Keys or in the Bahamian Exumas. Space for 1 to 6 people, Capt. Steve and "Admiral" Kathy aboard, no sailing experience needed. 4 hour sample sail: If you are in the Keys for a short stay you have to get away from land to experience the quiet beauty on the water. These trips are based in Marathon. Bring your own food and drinks. 8 hour day sailing trips: Leaving from Key Largo, Marathon or Key West we'll take you out for a sail to snorkel the reefs, going were no "cattle boat" can go. These trips give you a bit more time to relax and see a different side to the Keys. Bring your own food/drinks. 2 days & 1 night (10am to 4 pm next day): Allows you to experience a bit of the live aboard life where after spending a day sailing/snorkeling/kicking back we anchor out in a quiet cove for dinner as the sun sets or dinghy into one of the many great restaurants. We can provision for this trip or you can bring your own food/drinks. 3 days & 2 nights: Allows enough time to travel up and down the Keys a bit and to explore some of the many bays, mangroves and reefs. Depending on your interests we can concentrate on getting away from it all by anchoring out or come into the many beautiful harbors. 5 days & 4 nights in the Florida Keys: With this much time we could start at Key Largo and take you down to Key West, stopping along the way to snorkel, bird watch, Relax! We can anchor out for three nights and spend one at a marina. Or we can sail form Key West to the Marquessas and then onto Fort Jefferson. Regardless of where you'd like to start or end this trip it allows plenty of time to get a taste of the live aboard life. 5 days and 4 nights in the Exumas, Bahamas: Explore the absolutely beautiful Exumas Land and Sea Park or hang out with hundreds of other live aboards in Elizabeth Harbor, Georgetown. If a stay at Emerald Bay is more to your liking we can stop there, or we can pursue the many little anchorages giving you peace and quiet surrounded by the Blue, clear waters of the Bahamas.
Prices: DAYSAILING TRIPS (Up to six passengers) *Full day-maximum of 8 hours, bring your own food and drinks $850 PRIVATE CRUISING PACKAGES: *3 days & 2 nights: $2550 includes 1-2 people, $300 for each additional person. Includes on board provisions (see sample menus), linens and towels. *5 days & 4 nights in the Florida Keys: $4250 includes 1-2 people, $500 for each additional person. Includes on board provisions (see sample menus), linens and towels. *5 days & 4 nights in the Exumas, Bahamas: $6,500 includes 1-2 people, $1,000 for each additional person. Includes on board provisions (see sample menus), linens and towels. SAMPLE MENUS The day's activities might indicate lighter fare on occasion but dinner is usually the main meal. Breakfast might be an egg dish (green chili quiche, omelet's, frittata, egg in a frame, scrambled, fried, French toast, etc.) or pancakes (multi-grain, potato, whole wheat, buttermilk or scotch) with some sort of meat (bacon, sausages, ham,), fresh fruit, and beverage. Or maybe you'd prefer a smoothie, apple slices and nut butter and a bowl of oatmeal. Lunches usually consist of sandwiches, salads, and/or soup, fruit, beverage, cookies. (For example; Mexican Chicken soup, quesadillas, grapes, cranberry/chocolate chip cookies, beverage, or maybe grilled Italian sausages and hot dogs, baked beans, deviled eggs, potato salad and melon wedges) Being on the water seems to stimulate the appetite so munchies also make an appearance to take the edge off your hunger. They might include but are not limited to nuts, chips, crackers, string cheese, sushi, fruit and crudités. When we're anchored for the night, you can relax and drink rum punch and nibble on rosemary walnuts. Dinner always includes a nice green salad and fresh fruit offering. One night might be spicy shrimp, crusty French bread, onion pie and chocolate dream cake, and another might be tuna stroganoff and rice or chicken and biscuits, or grilled chicken breasts, grilled mahi mahi or grouper. Please let us know if you have any strong likes or dislikes so that we can accommodate them when provisioning the boat and planning the menus.
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