2024 is going to be a full-frontal assault on my free, global owners-weeks with Dream Yacht Charter. What better way to honour this commitment with a 14 day cruise in the British Virgin Islands. To maximize my free weeks for 2024, I only used 1 high season week, gaining 1…
Back from a recent sail out of Pula, Croatia, on our catamaran 'No Shoes', I was again pleased to see how well the catamaran was looked after by Davor and his Crew from Dream Yacht Charter. We arrived on a last minute booking and the boat was in-between charters. Meaning…
Yachts return to base at the end of a busy season. That means 9 months of constant use by potentially 36 different skippers with varying level of experience, hauling families with little hands or groups of party lovers. Things break. How does DYC stay on top of the never ending…
'No Shoes' was commissioned at the beginning of the 2019 for its 66 months contract as a bare boat with Dream Yacht Charter under the 'DreamEasy' contract based in Pula, Croatia. This 44' Helia, the last of its kind built, was now the responsibility of DYC's base manager Davor and…
Exactly 1 year after our last trip to COVID stricken, locked-down Australia and our fantastic sail on my favourite in the local DYC fleet, SV 'Traviata', the place was open for business again. This time around we got allocated a 2019 Catana Bali 4.1. This is a 2 year old…
Through July 2020, we have had the pleasure of a 20-day sailing trip onboard the bareboat catamaran ‘ No Shoes ’ – a 2019 Fountain Pajot Helia 44 Evolution – across the North Adriatic in both Croatia and Italy. The catamaran is in charter with Dream Yacht Charter, based in…
Almost exactly 2 years to date, I was back on 'Traviata', a bareboat catamaran with Dream Yacht Charter in Australia. How did she handle the last 2 years? Our annual trip to the Whitsunday Islands in North-Eastern Australia was not what you consider ordinary this time around.We planned to catch…
When you get invited to a 70th birthday on Hamilton Island the only sensible thing to do is extend the event and go sailing the Whitsundays. This is what I did in November last year, along with my wife, daughter and her boyfriend. We have spent many sailing holidays in…