I highly recommned no one to use this company for any live aboard sailing trips!
I take one vacation a year and love to scuba dive. I do a lot of research in order to make sure my one vacation is memorable one. Blackbeard advertised their trip as a unlimited scuba diving, unlimited spearfishing, excellent sailing, and basically doing whatever you wanted to do that week. My expereince was not waht I expected.
The trip started with the boat that was supposed to be ready to go at 3pm not leaving until 6pm because they were not stocked and had no gas. Once we finally set sail we had a good sail across the gulf stream. This was important because it is the only time they actually sailed on the whole trip!
The next day was followed by average scuba diving and decent food... Okay time. Following day included average diving, limited spearfishing, and a call from their other boat that did not stock the proper amounts of food and beverage (should have turned around there)!
Wednesday started with more dives in very high currents and the captain only allowing us two one hour spearfishing sessions in very bad spearfishing areas. How do I know this? The other boat caught several fish and 20 lobster and we had 2 lobster. Despite repeated complaints about the spearfishing and desires to go to knew spots the Captain did not care!
Thursday was our port night in Bimini! Fun time until we came back to boat and hide the crews pillows. After a quick laugh we gave the pillows back to the crew. The captain of the boat (YO the sea witch) berated us for thirty minutes about violating their space and threatened to have us flown back to miami! (should have accpeted that) I did not mind being repreminded for my actions even though they were in good fun. However, when the cook of the ship is hitting on the wives of the travelers and urtinating off the front of the boat I think she might have other problems see would want to address first!
Needless to say Thursday was bad so hopefully we would have a good Friday. However, Friday started off would a 45 minute lecture and a threat to take us back to Miami right away. Once we accepted Yo the sea witches threat to take us back she refused! This was a bad trip!
The kicker is once we were withing cell phone range of miami we called the owner of the boat six times and left messages to meet us in Miami. He did not meet us and when he returned one of the phone calls seemed not to care at all! He has still not returned any of the other calls to the other travelers either!
Jon
La Vista, Nebraska
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