Brochures and articles from days gone past of the Charter Yacht Society and crewed yachts in the BVI
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This picture above was from the 1985 Boat show. Interesting to see what has changed!
1988 Sail Magazine. Crewed Charter Supplement. This is a 8 page PDF that has such tidbits in it as looking for your hairdryer, VCR, telephone on the yacht and that the guests should arrange to leave the boat for two hours a day as the captain has to among other things, perform routine maintenance on the engines!
Short newspaper article on the 20th anniversary BVI Boat Show in 2001
Another short article on the 20th anniversay show and another couple here.
All at Sea article on the 2003 Boat show
Limin Times cover on the 2003 Boat show
The BVI Takes to the Sea. Claudia Colli article in the BVI Welcome Magazine
Article about the Charter Yacht Society and why it was formed. PDF in two parts. 1 and 2
This 20 page PDF is a copy of the guide to crewed yacht vacations that the BVI Tourist Board put out in the early 90's. The style of the clothes, even now, (as well as the womens hair!) is quite interesting.
In 1989 CYBA (the Charter Yacht Brokers Association put out a brochure on chartering here. This PDF is some selected pages from it, including the few boats that are still around chartering here, including Wanderlust, Cuan Law, Promenade, Endless Summer and Highest Honour (which you will know as Lonestar now!) an interesting look at the boats.
1981 Pleasure Boat Industry Study by Ivor Jackson
in 1981 study on the Charter Yacht Industry was commissioned. This makes some interesting readin, as although it is 99 pages long, it does contain some fascinating trivia from back then and it is interesting to see what has changed and what has not. This is a large PDF file to download!
