Subject: “Any interest in a July/August 2025 Chartering Cruise & Suggested Destinations”
Please provide your thoughts and interest in joining an IYC Cruise to where? The idea is that those interested in gaming out a planned group cruise to a destination of our group’s choice. If we booked charter boats, choices of power and/or sail, captained or self piloted for about a week, is there a list of spots we could consider for the group?
Some possible suggestions I offer that I have done in the past are offered to get your mind in gear for these locations or even better spots: In the United States, the Northeast offers many possibilities from the waters in CT, RI, MA, ME. Winning spots are always to be found at any of these and chartering is pretty easily accomplished. A fun but longer trip would be on the Hudson River and possibly into Canada. An easy site is Lake Champlain with its many towns and sights.
Overseas, another possibility: Scotland offers the Caledonian Canal (Loch Ness to Inverness) as well as other possibilities . Spain is another great spot to cruise including Majorca, Minorca via Barcelona, Portugal, Shannon River in Ireland.
Charter vessels run in size from 2 to 6 people aboard, generally and larger power vessels are likely crewed. Prices, as you would expect, vary widely based on number of cabins, length, power vs sail, crewed vs self-pilot, etc
Once a few popular spots emerge from this survey of interest, I can get some tentative details of possible boats, costs, routes.
Please email your ideas via response to this post so that others can flush out additional thoughts. If you want to speak with me directly but you are encouraged to respond via the IYC Cruiser pages, my cell is 609-932-9219, email- [email protected] Thank you, Alan Grossman