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Travel to Sydney on a yacht all by yourself. Enjoy the complete freedom of being single and unrestricted. Pay no heed to any ones advice- do all that you desire and enjoy absolute independence. Single travel on a yacht has many advantages.

Advantages of single travel

One of the most important advantages of single travel would be that there would be no one to tell you anything behind your back all the time. You can enjoy at your own liberty- Eat your favourite food, spend your favourite times relaxing with a book, or swimming or just basking in the sun, spend some time out of all the chitter chatters, and plan what you would like to do in future. Travelling alone helps you to gain confidence, helps you to gain an exposure which you wouldn’t have otherwise got with a group of people, gives you an insight to the rest of the world and helps you to explore a new place by yourself.

Be at peace with yourself

Enjoy the peace and tranquillity that you are getting by travelling alone. Walk and sail at your own sweet pace, visit a location and spend hours in that location, Soak yourself in the pure and fresh air, do your own set of activities, explore all the new and virgin places confidently with no one to advice you anything behind you. Travelling alone definitely has its stores of fun.

No adjusting required

Travel in a group requires patience, adjustment and socializing as well. However, if you are travelling alone, ravel at your own pace. Strike up a conversation with any new person you meet on the way, dine at your favourite place and enhance your confidence. However while travelling alone; you need to be sure that you are not sharing your confidential information to anyone and everyone because that makes you invite danger.

Be adventurous

Travelling alone helps you to be adventurous and explore nature. It helps you to explore nature at its best. If you are alone, you can explore the place in your own way, climb where you want, visit the least visited places in the world, and experience a new and exciting journey alone.

Spend as much as you like

The main advantage of travelling alone is, you do not have to worry about budget. If you travelled with a family, that would require almost a huge amount of money. You need not worry if you are travelling all alone. Spend the budget assigned for a group and enjoy life at its best. Dine at the most expensive places, visit the best places in the world and have great fun.

Though being alone sometimes does make you feel bored. A charter yacht has so many activities as well as places that you can visit that it would hardly make you feel bored and sad. Visit some of the best places in a Sailcorp Yacht Charters Sydney alone, enjoy life as your have desired and freak out.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. MSC Cruises offers luxury cruises with its new MSC Yacht Club experience, featuring accommodations that CruiseCritic.com calls among the best suites at sea.

Like a ship within a ship, MSC Yacht Club dedicated VIP areas are available onboard the MSC Fantasia, which debuted in December 2008) and MSC Splendida (to be launched in summer 2009). The MSC Yacht Club allows guests to experience the best of both worlds on its luxury cruises more personalized service and a private, intimate space while also enjoying the full benefits of all the magnificent vessel has to offer.

CruiseCritic.com, a leading cruise information and rating site for consumers, ranked the MSC Yacht Club Royal Suites as one of the Best Suites at Sea, describing them as spacious and cozy at the same time.

The sites editors added, Fun bells and whistles range from Wii on the living room television to fantastic butler service. Although this is the nicest of the 99 cabins that qualify for Yacht Club status, just being in the Yacht Club area is a big plus. You have a private club with full bar (no charge) and light, but definitely adventurous, food throughout the day. Yacht Club guests also have access to a private pool area, a grill and another bar.

As its name implies, MSC Yacht Club offers guests a cruise experience comparable to cruise on a luxury yacht. In addition to elegant decor, guests enjoy an extraordinary level of pampering and personal service that begins with priority check-in and continues with 24-hour butler service, with butlers trained to the standards of the International Butler Academy. Butlers are available to unpack, deliver guests favorite international newspapers, serve daily English Afternoon Tea and arrange for front-row seats in the ships theater.

The pampering continues with the luxury cruises staff at the Concierge Desk. Available 24 hours a day, the concierge staff offers a wealth of information and special services, including reservations for alternative dining and luxury spa services as well as arranging private shore excursions and onboard shopping from the cruise ship desk area, which is complete with stairs adorned with Swarovski crystals.

This unique lifestyle experience includes several exclusive areas for MSC Yacht Club guests, including the Pool One (with a pool, solarium and two spa baths under a Sky Dome), the Top Sail Lounge with its spectacular panoramic views and the Priv VIP area of the Liquid Disco. Most suites also offer special access to the MSC Aurea Spa.

The spacious suites within MSC Yacht Club are fitted out to the highest standards, complete with full bath and shower with marble accents, interactive TV, WiFi, Nintento Wii, luxurious linens by Mascioni Italy, ergonomic mattresses and a Dorelan pillow menu.

When it comes to luxury cruise dining, MSC Yacht Club guests have access to round-the-clock dedicated room service menu; complimentary drinks, pastries and appetizers at the Top Sail Lounge all day long; complimentary dining at LEtoile, the gourmet French restaurant, as well as dining in a special reserved section of the panoramic Cerchio dOro main restaurant. In addition, complimentary beverages are available in the MSC Yacht Club cafes, bars and the ships main restaurant.

MSC Yacht Club offers a choice of 88 Deluxe Suites (sleeping 2 to 4 adults), 9 Executive Family Suites and 2 Royal Suites on its luxury cruises. Two of the Deluxe Suites are fully equipped for the comfort of people with disabilities. MSC Yacht Club suites also have complimentary mini-bars. Cruise guests can also enjoy in-stateroom spa treatments, and laundry and dry cleaning are included free of charge.

While providing all the comfort, service and privacy of a personal yacht, MSC Yacht Club also offers the best of both worlds, bringing full and privileged access to the incredible variety of superior sports facilities, shopping, dining, gaming and entertainment found on the magnificent floating city.

For more information about the MSC Yacht Club, visit www.MSCCruisesUSA.com or a local travel professional.

MSC Cruises currently has the most modern fleet in the world with nine ships: MSC Fantasia (the largest ship ever built for a European ship owner), MSC Poesia, MSC Orchestra, MSC Musica, MSC Sinfonia, MSC Armonia MSC Opera, MSC Lirica, MSC Melody, cruising in the Mediterranean year round and seasonally in Northern Europe, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, North and South America, the Indian Ocean and South Africa. MSC Splendida and MSC Magnifica will be launched, respectively, in 2009 and 2010. MSC Cruises is the only company to receive the “6 Golden Pearls” award from the Bureau Veritas in recognition of its high level of quality management and environmental protection.

Popularly known as the -Island of Flowers-, Martinique is the biggest island in the Wind-ward Islands chain. It offers diverse types of yacht charters such as: Captain yacht charter, catamaran, sail and motor, luxury crewed yacht charter etc. The island is home to myriad assortment of flowers, trees and plants. The 425-square-mile island is patterned with plantations producing pineapples, papayas, sugar, guavas, cinnamon, coffee and mango.

When you are on Martinique vacations, there is so much of fun you can do in this island. On the other hand, it is natural for people to regard that a yacht charter is only for the rich class as it is too expensive. However, nowadays there are many affordable Martinique Yacht Charter available that suits your budget requirements. If there are 2 or more people in your party, the prices of yacht charter are very much comparable.

Before you make up your mind taking up the yacht charter services, do consider these below mentioned advantages that are here as under:

The biggest advantage of considering yacht charter for your vacation is the experience you obtain. No doubt, when you go on luxury yachts you will have a different experience as compared to ordinary ones, because you are on the sea. Also, it is not like that when you are on the ocean, the quality of rooms will be compromised.

With a yacht charter, you have full liberty to roam around the places within the cruising area. Plus, you can do whatever you want to do. The charterer will be completely responsible for making the decisions and so, you don’t have to go through the Ship Sails At boards. You can enjoy the peace of a private world.

When you are taking yacht charter, it is not wrong to say that the world is yours. As, yachts operate all over the world, you can travel wherever you want to. Yacht charter is growing at a rapid rate, new locations and yachts are added to meet the increasing demands of people.

Coming to talk about the food, well on opulent yacht charters, you can enjoy your favorite food. There is a plenty of Caribbean cuisine which you experience on the ships. In fact, bars are also available in the yachts that offer a magnificent variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks with special cocktails in order to cool you down when there is a hot weather outside.

Are you into adventurous activities? Well, there are a lot you can enjoy on the charters. You do not have to worry about your security since we have trained professional divers who make sure you remain safe all the times. If you also have a desire to go snorkeling, then these divers can offer you a great help. Thus, we give you a great opportunity to uncover the marine life. What else you can think of in this beautiful island?

Yacht lifts, as in the name, are used to lift and place yachts in and out of the water. Some also serve the purpose of moving yachts from one water level to another. They are also are used to keep a check on the bottom of the yachts to ensure that they are not dragged too far away from the water.

They come in many types of features and the combination of one or more of it makes it very useful equipment. Different type of hydraulic lift systems use different combination of features, that serves different purposes in boating industry. One of the most important features is its capacity.

Transom lifts can be custom made to include a capacity suitable for a particular purpose. The cost usually varies based on its capacity. The more the capacity the more it costs. They are usually anchored to water bed or some are parked on the land itself.

Yacht lifts are manufactured in different sizes. The type used depends upon the size of the yachts. A large one can accommodate small to larger yachts, but if a small lift is used for large or heavy yachts, it might get damaged.

Large yachts that weigh several tons demands exclusive lifts that are made for this purpose. These are called electric dock boat lifts, handle very heavy objects like recessed transoms & sailboats. They can even be custom made for those hard to handle applications.

Similarly, there are yachts that are used for water sports. A floating yacht lift is used for this purpose, it easily lifts tenders, inflatables and PWC.

For simple small yacht that carry people up to certain limit are typically called swim platforms. Infact, these lifts are basically flat cradle lifts that are designed to lift people directly, quickly & safely out of water.

Hydraulic yacht lift systems are one of the most useful machinery in boating industry and are now a great necessity for yacht owners, and yachting communities.

Used Trawlers, Used Motor Yachts, and Used Sailboats for Sale “>In a previous article we talked about the five categories of anchors and how to select the best one for your needs. Today we will review how to successfully use that anchor.

Logic would have it that dropping and setting an anchor is simply nothing more than lowering the anchor, setting out some line and kick back and start having fun. Not so fast!

To work properly, anchors must develop enough resistance in the sea bed to endure the environmental forces on the trawler-the wind and the tides. An anchor’s capacity to develop resistance is completely dependent on its capability to penetrate the sea bed. We will assume that you have aboard your yacht, the best anchor for your intended sea bed conditions . We will also assume you have enough rode, chain, rope or a combination, to play out the anchor.

As you near your chosen anchorage, always allow plenty of swing room. The tides, currents and winds will always swing the boat so be sure to allow plenty of room to avoid hitting other boats that may be anchored nearby. Be sure to estimate how far you’ll be from your anchor when it is set.

When you have chosen the best place to anchor, place the bow into the wind and or current and slowly bring her to a stop. Look at other anchored boats to get a feel of the tides if necessary.

On our trawler, the Patricia Ann, we have all chain rode. We have marked the rode every 25 feet with red string. The initial 25 feet is marked with 1 string, the second with 2 and so forth. This makes deploying the anchor with accuracy.

When you are in position, begin letting out the anchor rode. Your trawler will begin drifting somewhat with the current. When you have played out enough rode to place your anchor on the bottom, bump the engines into reverse to begin laying the rode out. We rather not have the anchor on the bottom with the rode piled on top of it to perhaps tangle. Do not keep the trawler in reverse; you just want to begin laying the rode out. When you have adequate rode out halt the trawler’s reverse speed.

Some boating “experts” insist that it takes a scope of 7:1 rode to safely hold a yacht. That would equate to 7 foot of rode for every 1 foot of water depth. For example, to properly anchor in 10 feet of water, would require 70 feet of anchor rode. But we routinely anchor the Patricia Ann in 15 foot waters with a 35 lb. CQR anchor and 5/16 inch chain rode. We usually deploy 50 feet of rode and have never had a dragging anchor even in some 25-30 mph winds. I suspect that the more chain you use, the greater the holding power as the rode is pulling more horizontal to the sea floor and the chain further offers supplemental weight.

Now you have an appropriate amount of rode deployed, how do you set and secure it. We have an electric chain windlass aboard our trawler. Our windlass has no locking feature so chain will continue to be deployed if the yacht pulls it. Your windlass may be different but you must make certain that you can secure the rode so no more will be deployed.

I made up a bridle, consisting of a 5/8 inch dock line that we use to stop additional chain deployment and give some elasticity to it. A stainless shackle is attached to the line. The shackle is connected to the chain rode as it is lowered; the other end is tied to the king post. Be sure to use chafing gear where the bridle meets the anchor roller.

If you are using chain with a nylon rode, you’ll not need to use a bridle. If you are using a metal cable, you can use a cable or wire puller to fasten a bridle to it.

Once the bridle is secured, the trawler is backed-down until the anchor is set. You will know when it sets as the anchor rode will rise out of the water and the boat will stop.

Finally, the rode is lowered a bit more allowing the bridle to hold the boat.

Mike Dickens, the author, is a live aboard boat owner and owner/Broker of Paradise Yachts in Florida USA.

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