As this is purportedly a charter blog when we aren’t distracted by food, wine and yacht building, we should perhaps have a brief look at the year in retrospect charter wise.

In a world economy that was not in good form, we were not exactly holding our breath for a great year, but as it turned out we must have done some things o.k. as the 2009 charter season turned out to be our best year yet. It started slowly but as time went on more people decided that “crisis” or not, they needed a holiday and enquiries started to become bookings around April. Some were born earlier but in the main we will refer to 2009 as a last minute gulet dot com, with us still answering enquiries and bookings well into August.

As usual, our clients whether on Southern Cross Timer, other gulets or sailing yachts were a good bunch of people with whom we shared good times. We are still receiving great links to our clients’ photos of there holiday on the Turkish blue cruise!

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Our clients varied from American legal folk to well known Aussie sailors, psychiatrists, retired couples, families celebrating graduations and people celebrating various life events with friends and family. Some wanted purely to chill out while others were looking for an adventure. Our job to fulfill these needs was executed with heart in mouth a couple of times but we no serious hiccups. (Drop us a line if you want details of the near-misses!) It is not always easy to produce peoples’ expectations but very satisfying when achieved.

Gulet Charter Season 2009