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KEY FEATURES...
| Top end, owner managed, small BVI bareboat charter company – currently running 30 monohull and multihull sailing vessels, well priced - excellent pride fleet of Bavaria yachts 31-46’ built 2004-08; other types include Beneteau, Jeanneau, Island Spirit (Cats), Lagoon & Bahia (Cats); watersports equipment and toys, rendezvous diving, sailing instruction, skippers, cooks available. Good BVI bareboat experience. |
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Review
Added Value with Horizon Yacht Charters
If you book with Horizon Yacht Charters you will receive the Horizon Yacht Charters Discount Card giving discounts and special services at recommended venues within your cruising area.
Horizon Yacht Charters is a small, top end BVI yacht charter company known for its high standards and good level of service. It has a number of good quality yachts on its books, but the thing that sets it apart is the additional service that the company offers. In addition to the simple charter, they draw on their extensive knowledge of the BVI to tailor-make your holiday to your exact requirements, whether it be restaurant bookings or wedding arrangements. Horizon Yacht Charters are also an authorised dealer for Bavaria Yachts and approved agents for Fountaine Pajot catamarans and offer yachts for private purchase or for charter management placement.
Based in Nanny Cay Marina, a few miles west of Road Town, the company is owned and operated by Andrew Thompson and Sylvia Driver, who between them bring together around 30 years of experience of the yachting business in the BVI. In their time they have seen the industry grow from modest beginnings into a multi-million dollar business dominated by a number of international players. They have chosen to break the mould by staying small and offering a personal service that can’t be matched by the bigger companies.
Horizon feels that sailors get more out of a charter with a company that is operated by people with genuine enthusiasm and they use their knowledge in all sorts of areas of the BVI to tailor things specifically to your requirements. From the first time you contact them until the moment you return from your charter, one member of staff will be dedicated to your arrangements. In addition to all the aspects of the charter they are able to help with air travel and hotel accommodation. Their aim is to ensure that you will never be made to feel one of the crowd.
Your briefing will be personalised, rather than in a crowd with other sailors, and they will provision according to your detailed preferences. Horizon Yacht Charters’ good quality fleet has been purposefully structured in line with this, in order to offer a quality of service that larger companies cannot match. They can arrange extras such as scuba or windsurfing equipment and they can also help you with other additional requests. You might want to get married on a deserted beach, learn to dive or go parasailing. They can tailor-make it for you.
Sylvia has been in the hotel and yacht charter business in the BVI since the mid Eighties. She and her husband Will owned a successful charter company previously in the BVI some years ago. After a break working in the financial department of a large charter company, Sylvia decided it was time to get back to the hands on of yacht charter again.
Andrew has a diverse background in the marine industry. After several years on large, private yachts in the Mediterranean and then having his own boat business in the UK, Andrew moved to the BVI in 1995. For a while he worked for well-known charter companies in both the technical and customer service departments. Gradually he realised that he wanted to offer charter guests something more, but found that he was confined by procedures and systems of the larger companies. Andrew has a particular interest in racing and can talk for hours (given half a chance!) on the pros and cons of racing boats, rigs and sails… It is this enthusiasm and their local knowledge which mean that he and the rest of the staff at Horizon are able to make sure that their yachts are in first-class condition for each charter and that the customer is happy.
Horizon Yacht Charters is a small but trusty BVI yacht charter company, right up there among the best in the wide choice on offer. It does not have the international profile of the companies with their worldwide fleets, but as a BVI based specialist they can offer more a more tailored service. Interestingly, many of their yachts are smarter than the production-line yachts of the larger fleets, but HYC are not more expensive than the big operators.
YACHT SALES...
Horizon Yacht Charters is an authorised dealer for Bavaria Yachts and an approved agent for Fountaine Pajot catamarans. If you would like to own a yacht and put it out for charter at the times when you are not using it, then Horizon can enable the purchase and by arrangement they can include the yachts in their fleet. They obviously work with Bavaria Yachts, but they do take other brands of yachts as well.
CATS WANTED...
Horizon Yacht Charters report that the demand for 4 cabin catamarans is extremely high and they are looking for brand name cats 38’ – 50’ 0 – 3 years old. If you are considering placing your multihull into charter service, or if you are considering investing in a catamaran, the company would like to hear from you. |
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Base
Horizon Yacht Charters is based at Nanny Cay on the southern shore of Tortola, about three miles west of Road Town, the capital of the BVI. The area has a fully equipped marina with berths for 180 yachts, a boat repair facility and chandlery and a number of other services including a restaurant and bar, which is often a hub of activity for yachties on shore for a while. There is also a hotel and a small shopping mall on the waterfront, from which you can provision your yacht if you do not want to head off to the supermarkets in Road Town. |
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Fleet
Horizon Yacht Charters’ fleet runs at around 30 monohulls and multihulls for bareboat and crewed charters. It is divided into three sectors.
As agents for Bavaria Yachts they have a number of yachts from this prestigious yard, which form their Bavaria Fleet. Some are owned by the company, but most are managed by them (many were also originally commissioned by Horizon) on behalf of clients who want to keep a yacht in the Caribbean. The Commodore Fleet is made up mostly of Bavaria yachts that are less than five years old, as with the majority of their fleet. Other makes of yachts under five years old which come under the Commodore Fleet include Beneteau and Jeanneau monohull yachts. The Catamaran Fleet includes Lagoon, Island Spirit and Bahia cats which are also less than five years old.
They also take on a number of yachts that are more than five years old but which are well maintained and still in good condition. They include 3 Bavarias and a Beneteau 49. These yachts form their Club Fleet.
All yachts come with rigid inflatables and outboards, biminis, BBQ, CD, GPS, linen, towels, safety & galley equipment. A range of watersports equipment can be hired. |
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Rates
| Season | Low | Mid | High | Low/Mid | Low | | | 10 Jul- 31 Oct 2007 10 nts for price of 7 | 01 Nov- 17 Dec 2007 & 05 Jan- 30 Jan 2008 | 18 Dec- 04 Jan 2007-08 & 31 Jan- 16 Apr 2008 | 17 Apr- 09 Jul 2008 | 10 Jul- 31 Oct 2008 10 nts for price of 7 | | COMMODORE FLEET | | Bavaria 31 (2C/1H) 2008 | 1595 | 1995 | 2295 | 1795 | 1595 | | Bavaria 33 (2C/1H) 2008 | 2095 | 2595 | 2895 | 2295 | 2095 | | Bavaria 33 (2C/1H) 2006 | 1895 | 2395 | 2695 | 2095 | 1895 | | Bavaria 36 (2C/1H) 2005 | 2295 | 2795 | 3095 | 2595 | 2395 | | Bavaria 37 (3C/1H) 2008 | 2595 | 2995 | 3395 | 2795 | 2595 | | Bavaria 39 (3C/2H) 2007 | 2695 | 3395 | 3795 | 2895 | 2695 | | Bavaria 41 (3C/2H) 2004 | 2595 | 3395 | 3795 | 2895 | 2695 | | Bavaria 42 (3C/2H) 2005 | 2995 | 4095 | 4495 | 3395 | 2995 | | Bavaria 44 (3C/2H) 2004 | 2995 | 4195 | 4595 | 3495 | 3095 | | Bavaria 46 (3C/2H) 2006/07 # | 3295 | 4395 | 4795 | 3695 | 3295 | | Bavaria 46 (4C/2H) 2005 | 3595 | 4695 | 5095 | 3995 | 3595 | | Beneteau 323 (2C/1H) 2006 | 1595 | 2095 | 2395 | 1895 | 1695 | | Jeanneau 42DS (2C/2H/AC) 2007 | n/a | 4995 | 5395 | 4295 | 3795 | | Jeanneau 43DS (2C/2H/A/C) 2004** | n/a | 4795 | 5195 | 4095 | n/a | | Jeanneau SO49 (4C/4H/AC) 2005 | 4595 | 5795 | 6895 | 4995 | 4595 | | Beneteau 523 (5C/5H) 2007 | 5295 | 6695 | 7995* | 5895 | 5395 | | Beneteau 523 (5C/5H/AC) 2008 | n/a | 7295 | 8495* | 6495 | 5895 | | Jeanneau 54DS (3C/3H/AC) 2004 | 4895 | | |
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