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Suggested Gear List and Prep List for Bareboat Charters
• Don’t forget your passport, credit card, drivers license, airline tickets.
• Inform your credit card company that you will be traveling so that it will not freeze your account when it sees unfamiliar charges.
• Check with your health care provider (if necessary). Bring all medications in your carry-on bag.
• Bring small bills for tips along the way…. check for local currency and rate.
• Plan for at least one cell phone per boat that has been activated for international use at your destination.
• For the islands/tropics, buy bug spray ( sand fleas and mosquito, etc).
• Checked luggage can be $15.00 to $25.00 per bag
• Have 3 ounce bottles for liquids in clear plastic bag for carry on……or buy at destination and leave it there.
• Check for local electrical voltage and connections needed (110 or 220).
• The charter company supplies bed linens and towels
| Items To Bring |
| Everyone |
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Skippers |
• Hard luggage
• Costly jewelry
• Deck shoes
• Underwear
• Hat with a brim
• Bathing suits
• Sailing gloves
• Shorts
• Sun screen - SPF 15 or higher
• Light weight pants
• Flashlight
• Tees or sleeveless shirts
• Toilet kit; shampoo, tooth paste, etc
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• Long sleeved shirts
• Towel for deck or beach
• Light sweater or sweat shirt
• Sunglasses
• Wind breaker or light rain jacket
• Prescription contacts or glasses (2)
• Something to sleep in
• Skin moisturizer
• Shoes/sandals for shore use |
• SOS burgee, if possible
• Duct tape
• Bbungy cords
• Tell tails
• CD’s
• Clothes pins
• Handheld GPS/mobile device with navigation app |
| FOR the ISLANDS/TROPICS: |
FOR EUROPE: |
DO NOT BRING: |
• Your own mask and snorkel (if you have favorites)
• Swim fins if desired (mask and fins often available at base)
• Tee or long sleeved shirt for snorkeling – prevent sunburn
• Reef shoes for beach
• Light rain proof jacket |
• Capris or slacks for women (ashore)
• Dressier shirts; tees and other (ashore)
• Foul weather gear/rain jacket |
• Hard luggage
• Costly jewelry |
Skippers:
- SOS burgee, if possible
- Duct tape
- bungy cords
- tell tails
- CD’s
- clothes pins
- Handheld GPS/mobile device with navigation app
- Underwear
- Deck shoes
- Hat with a brim
- Bathing suits
- Sailing gloves
- Shorts
- Sun screen - SPF 15 or higher
- Light weight pants
- Flashlight
- Tees or sleeveless shirts
- Toilet kit; shampoo, tooth paste, etc
- Long sleeved shirts
- Towel for deck or beach
- Light sweater or sweat shirt
- Sunglasses
- Wind breaker or light rain jacket
- Prescription contacts or glasses (2)
- Something to sleep in
- Skin moisturizer
- Shoes/sandals for shore use
FOR the ISLANDS/TROPICS:
- Your own mask and snorkel (if you have favorites)
- Swim fins if desired (mask and fins often available at base)
- Tee or long sleeved shirt for snorkeling – prevent sunburn
- Reef shoes for beach
- Light rain proof jacket
DO NOT BRING:
- Hard luggage
- Costly jewelry
FOR EUROPE:
- Capris or slacks for women (ashore)
- Dressier shirts; tees and other (ashore)
- Foul weather gear/rain jacket
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