December 24th, 2019
Just got an update from Scott Hustins, owner of Island Surf & Sail located in Soper’s Hole Marina on Tortola. He reported, “Its official…We are open again exactly 2 years and 3 months since Hurricane Irma! Still waiting on stock, and merchandise, but we are ready to deliver as always to your charter and villas!”
This is fantastic news for all watersports lovers in the BVI. It is also great news for myself personally, as I get all my surfing supplies from them. For the past 2 years, they have been operating out of a temporary location in Smuggler’s Cove. Glad to have them back in their original shop!
Island Surf & Sail is Tortola’s watertoy and watersports expert. So whether you’re here for a beach vacation or chartering a boat, they promise to make this a vacation you’ll never forget. Island Surf & Sail offers a variety of water toys, watersports equipment, lessons, safety gear and fun stuff like wakeboarding and waterskiing. They rent glass surfboards, SUP, kayaks, windsurfers, fishing gear, snorkel gear and aids, and floaties for the beach. They also have guitars for rent for those late night sing alongs!
Island Surf & Sail: + 1 284-345-0123 | [email protected]
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