October 2nd, 2020
Virgin Charter Yachts has announced the addition of their first-ever sailing catamaran to the bareboat charter fleet—a 2019 Voyage 480 named ‘Destiny.’ The Voyage 480 is a high-performance, fast and comfortable sailing catamaran that can accommodate eight guests in four double cabins, each with their own en-suite head (bathroom).
As a boutique charter company previously offering exclusively power catamarans and motor yachts for charter, Virgin Charter Yachts always intended to expand into sailing yachts when the right opportunity arose. Alexia Lucas, VCY Director, stated “Although we have offered luxury motor yachts and power catamarans for decades, we’ve always planned to expand into sailing catamarans.” Lucas continued: “We have been waiting to find a luxury catamaran that was the ‘right fit’ for our clients, and one that would compliment our personally curated fleet. We focus on offering our guests the newest, highest performance, and most well-optioned yachts in all of the BVI. The quality and features of the Voyage 480 were exactly what we had been looking for!”
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