December 9th, 2018
One of the top questions we are getting here at BVI Traveller is, “I am chartering a boat in the BVI this season and want to know who has fuel, water and ice. I also need to know where I can get provisions and what restaurants are open near the marinas.”
To answer this question, we reached out to Terry and Ruth Ross, owners of The Big Dog, a 62′ catamaran that charters in the BVI , who helped us compile the following report on the current state of the marinas in the BVI.
BVI Traveller was created in September of 2017 to help tourism in the British Virgin Islands recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma.
To that end, we met our goals. In the past 7 years there have been over 1.2 million visits to the website and over 3 million pages have been viewed. There are over 1,000 pages on the site featuring news posts and detailed listings on all hotels, villas, restaurants and sailing charters located in the BVI. The BVI Government and many business, hotels, villas and sailing charters have all agreed that the site “moved the needle on tourism” after Irma.
The site, however, has run its course. It has served its purpose by bringing visitors and local businesses together to rebuild the tourist industry and it is now time to shut down operations for good.
I want to thank everyone for your help and support.
Chuck Metter