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S U P E RYAC H T
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Introduction
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To all yacht captains, crew – owners and guests,
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his Guide of RECOMMENDED SERVICES will help support you in your role as Captain or senior crew, as owner or charter guest, or cruisers on your own yacht, as you make decisions about regions, seasons, services & supplies – to ensure everyone onboard makes the most of every Caribbean Island visited!
This need for a ‘database’ of reliable service contacts is something that stays with us. This was the very ‘raison d’être’ for Andrew starting the Superyacht Services Guides back in 2002... to collate an ‘Inside Guide’ of ‘Recommended Services’, for others to be able to access, in order to share the benefits of each other’s collective experience.
Before arriving in any new port or anchorage, you are probably looking for recommendations, ‘services’ for a job list, maybe a customs or provisioning agent, a dependable discrete driver to pick the owner and guests up – a florist… a reliable engineering firm, a good restaurant for an owner’s dinner ashore. So who should you use / where should you go?
We interview and receive feedback (usually good, though negative on occasions also!) & recommendations from Captains & crew throughout the year. These comments really do get listened to and ‘actioned’ accordingly by us... for in just the same way that we have researched / followed up new recommendations, we have also dropped services from last year, after receiving consistently poor feedback for them.
We often quiz fellow Captains & Crew, to find out who they recommend? With plenty of online search engines & social media groups, there’s no end to accessing information, we are often spoilt for choice! But now more than ever, who is reputable and good, WHO DO WE TRUST?
Recommended Services… As a ‘Captain’s Recommended Service’ they receive a free basic listing in the Guide and are offered the opportunity to advertise/ promote their service further, both in our printed Guides and online. It is important to understand the concept behind the advertising; for without it, there simply would be no book! As this is a relatively niche market, book sales alone could never support the cost of researching and publishing such a Guide.
Over time, Captains and crew slowly acquire a database of reliable service contacts: these quality contacts represent part of our ability to perform roles on board. We all know where the ‘buck stops’ as Captain on a charter or owner’s cruise, when the generator goes down... or when the guest’s specially requested provisions don’t arrive in time!
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