点评:7th time chartering Sunsail between BVI & Med sails. This trip - group of 10 including 2 children between 5 & 10 years old on a 45' sailing catamaran.
The catamaran was exceptionally clean and well outfitted - including kid netting. It performed flawlessly.
The BVI Sunsail base was quite good - very polite employees all around, GREAT location for pre-provisioning or after arrival.
A minor con: the on-base, required, in-person chart briefing was of little use (and thoroughly out-done by the excellent pre-trip on-line briefing).
A larger con: the technical support team for on-the-water assistance had some internal communication issues. Without going into detail, if there is a problem for which you need their support boat to arrive, assume that there is little to no communication between the rep you talk to on the phone and any actual deployment of assistance on the water. This admittedly based on only one instance where no assistance arrived by the next morning requiring multiple calls that had to start from scratch each time to describe the problem - and this with a Sunsail support boat, unbeknownst to us, sitting only some 10 moorings away that apparently never got notified. Stuff happens.
I will be using Sunsail (or Moorings) in the future!
翻译:这是我第七次租用Sunsail的帆船往返于英属维尔京群岛和地中海之间。这次我们一行十人,包括两名5至10岁的儿童,乘坐的是一艘45英尺的帆船双体船。
这艘双体船非常干净,设备齐全,甚至配备了儿童安全网。它的性能完美无瑕。
英属维尔京群岛的Sunsail基地相当不错——所有员工都非常礼貌,地理位置优越,无论是出发前还是抵达后都非常适合采购物资。
一个小缺点:基地提供的现场海图讲解几乎没什么用(远不如优秀的行前在线讲解)。
一个更大的缺点:负责水上救援的技术支持团队内部沟通存在一些问题。具体细节我就不赘述了,如果你遇到需要他们救援船出动的问题,那么你电话联系的客服代表和实际的救援船出动之间几乎没有任何沟通。诚然,这只是基于一次偶然事件:第二天早上仍未得到任何帮助,我们不得不多次打电话,每次都得从头开始描述问题——而我们却毫不知情,Sunsail 的支援船就停泊在离我们只有十个泊位远的地方,显然他们根本没收到通知。世事难料。
以后我还会选择 Sunsail(或 Moorings)的服务!