Wahoo Boat Charters is Now Open For Business!

After several months of planning and work setting up this company, Wahoo Boat Charters is now open for business! After a 2.5 month wait, I received my U.S. Coast Guard Captain's license. After that it was off to DPNR to get the boat over to commercial use, insurance and National Park Permit!

The website is up and running at www.wahooboatcharters.com

We are also on TripAdvisor and Yelp!

One of our favorite trips is the Circumnavigate St. John. On this trip we leave St. Thomas and head over to St. John across Pillsbury Sound. We go by the Caneel Bay Resort passing by Hawksnest, Trunk and Cinnamon Bays right through Fungi Passage to Water Lemon Cay, where there is some of the best snorkeling in the USVI.

It is now off the East end of STJ and into the Mangroves of St. John where there are a ton of starfish, coral, fish and even saw some squid! This is where you will find a ton of juvenile fish and even a sea turtle!

After a snorkel there, it is off to Hansen's Bay and the Angels Rest floating bar for some great rum punch!

We pull up anchor here and head over to Booby Rock, my second favorite place to snorkel.

We then head along the south side of St. John, right through Little and Great St. James Island back to the Compass Point Marina!

This trip is only $900 for up to 6 passengers and it includes captains fee and fuel!

We have a ton of other trips, 1/2 day and full day to meet your needs, starting at $500.

One of the other trips I am offering is a Sunset Cruise with Dinner on St. John! Here we will sail out of the marina and enjoy the sunset. We will then head over to St. John, where I will drop you off in Cruz Bay where you can choose from dozens of great restaurants. Once you finish desert, we head back across the sound taking in the lights of St. Thomas. Once we are at the entrance of the bay to the marina, we shut off the motors and take in the stars as we drift into the marina. I even bring my IPad with the Starwalker app so you can see the constellations!

I am also doing transfers to St. John, so that if you arrive at the St. Thomas airport, I will pick you up and drive over to the marina, where we will board the boat for a cruise over to St. John and dropped off at the National Park dock in Cruz Bay!

I hope you take the time to come aboard so I can show you the islands from the water!

I am excited to get this business going and I am still practicing real estate too!

New Boat Charter Company! Wahoo Boat Charters!

As many of you know, since we have been down here, we pretty much go boating every weekend. What started out as a 19 ft boat in Nevada, grew into a 26 foot boat in the Virgin Islands and now has grown to 32 foot boat.

I have received many requests to take friends of friends out on our boat, but due to Coast Guard regulations, I can only charge for gas. Meanwhile I have all the other associated costs, maintenance, dock fees, repairs, etc. What better way to take folks out and charge an amount to where our costs of owning the boat are paid for by doing some charters?

I recently took the Coast Guard class for a six pack license, meaning I can take out 6 charter guests. I passed the exam of Rules of the Road with a 97%. I am now working on getting all the mounds of paperwork into the Coast Guard so I can receive my Captain's License. Once I have that, I will have to deal with the USVI Dept of Licensing to get my business license.

In the meantime, I received approval of my LLC, Wahoo Boat Charters!

Does this mean I am no longer going be the broker of America's Caribbean Realty? No, I still love doing Real Estate and plan on continuing to practice real estate sales and leasing on a full time basis.

As far as the charter business, I will not be going to the British Virgin Islands, why?

• Customs - going to the BVI = long wait times for both checking into the BVI and then checking back into the US. You have an 8 hour day on the boat, count on 2 hours dedicated to customs, not to mention the mounds of paperwork I have to fill out. 
• Cost - They raised the fee to $15 per person. 
• Fuel  - at an average of $5 a gallon for gas here, your gas bill can get upwards of $200 onward to $500 depending on where you go. 

Don't get me wrong, I love boating to the BVI, but the aggravation of customs starts taking its toll on fun! I plan on keeping our tourist dollars in the USA and doing charters around St John and St Thomas. There is more than enough great snorkeling, beaches and beach bars to be had locally. Honeymoon Beach on Water Island and there is a new beach bar that you can only get by boat opening soon on the south side of St Thomas. If you don't think there is enough to do here locally, I can change your opinion! I will also be doing fishing charters with advanced notice! 

I hope to be ready to go with paid charters by mid January, but we shall see what road blocks I will encounter with our business licensing division here. Feel free to contact me with any inquiries you may have in the meantime as to booking your charters from mid January on. I am working on the new website too and will have a facebook page up soon! 

Meanwhile here is the new logo and our facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/wahooboatcharters