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'always sailing in style' Our Mission
We firmly believe that a yacht charter agency must create added value by providing local knowledge. This can be achieved only through familiarity with the destinations, experience in sailing, knowledge of the vessels and their crews, and passion for the sea and its culture. On top of this, we decided to put even more energy in other features, such as food, wine and art to improve the quality of our offer, and this decision came after years of serving clients in their crewed charters or their search for a bareboat.
Contrary to many agencies, our expertise came from 10 years of sailing and chartering in such diverse places as Alaska and Croatia, Patagonia and Provence, Caribbean and Sardinia. We provide professional consulting, solve problems, match your requests, organize gourmet and wine tasting cruises, share our long experience, spread our modest maritime culture, speak many languages,test the itineraries, simplify payments, manage yachts and read the contracts for you. And we charge you nothing for it. Every journey we organize is tailored upon our guests' requirements, so please contact us to request your private itinerary. All our voyages leave a very low carbon footprint. Please browse around our special pages |
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.Our specialties
... The Perfect Cruise Policy
. The perfect boat. It's impossible to find a bareboat or a crewed boat from a database: to each his own boat. We prefer to understand one's own desires and write, chat and call until we can find the perfect boat. There is no alternative to this.
. Sailing directions and sailing consultancy. Once the client chooses a boat, together with our skippers we provide a series of sailing directions and practical informations about the desired cruising ground, from the presence of a dangerous rock to the location of the best fishmonger.
. Continuos update of our website with sailing directions and new boats.
... Mediterranean
We are European to the bone. We want to transmit our passion for our Sea and we do our best to do so. We believe in our art, our culture, our heritage and our gastronomy. No other expanse of water can offer the same incredible variety and outstanding quality.
...Culture
We are the only charter brokerage firm trying to promote and made known as much maritime culture as we can: men, books, stories, pictures, lighthouses, tales and maritime related topics find an ever growing space in our website and as incentives to introduce new ideas and services.
... Gourmet and Galley Master Courses
. Ships are all right... it's the men in them.... Crewed charters are valued mainly upon the quality of food. That is why we decided to invest on it, up to the point of organizing a professional 'Galley Master' for anyone willing to combine the pleasure of gastronomy to the techniques of cooking aboard.
... Classic Vessels
We decided to represent and promote the style and class of real sailing. We charter Sparkman and Stephens Swans (44, 55, 47 and 65) and other fine designs.
... High Latitudes
Be it for a cruise in Antarctica, Alaska or Patagonia, we provide local knowledge of skipper and boats. Moreover, we offer heavy weather courses in the Mediterranean to share our experiences in these places.
The Sea is like a magic mirror, it does not reflect the appearance of what stands over it, but its essence and its soul. So it rarely gives back the image of a boat, but surely its dreams and desires. If the voyager searches history and heritage, the mirror of the Sea will reflect ocre shadows among white and blue hulls secluded in stony ancient havens. If the people on the boat want to relax by a sandy athol with leaning palms, the Sea will assume a blue and crystal clear hue with two white shadows painted on the shallow bottom. Again, the traveller might seek adventure in remote places, and a milky green surface will return the warm fires of a galley hidden among small icebergs and fir trees. To others, more interested in the pleasures of eating, the sea will be a generous dispenser of flavours and perfumes, echoed in the character and aromas flowing down the cliffs and valleys by the coast.
Once you are aboard, our crews and Captains will continue the search for your desires and select, within your chosen destination, a perfect route among the several possible. Whether you prefer to hop among lonely coves, charming restaurants or fashionable clubs, we'll steer in your desired direction. |
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Welcome aboard Armstrong Global
Sandra
After years in a charter agency she understood clearly two things: that doing all the job for others is pointless because you cannot put your own ideas into work. Certified broker, graduate in marketing, she speaks English, Italian, Croatian, French and Russian. She loves the job and is an excellent problem-solver. Her business partners are convinced she crosses too many Ts and dots too many Is, but this is arguably a minus in business.
Marco
Italian expat, MBA, 40, sailed the equivalent of two round the world voyages. He still believes that the poetry of small european havens can be found in other continents, and he keeps searching for them anywhere. His dream has been deluded so far, so he is now back in the Med, the only cruising destination where he can be 5 minutes from a decent piece of cheese and glass of wine. He suffered from the TMT syndrome and sailed for years among icebergs and seals. But now he is back among the humans and prefers warmer waters and more frequented places. He should definitely buy new bibs...
Tracy Bred for sailing from birth. Having sailed there for 3 years as skipper of her own boat, and before that as crew on others, she is convinced that Georgian Bay cruising is some of the best in the world. Other cruising experience includes Lake Superior, Desolation Sound British Columbia, Bermuda, Bahamas, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Greece, Italy. Big Fan of yacht racing – any format: Round-the-buoys, Team, Match, Long-distance. Canadian Yachting Association certified cruising instructor. And not a bad lobster chef. |
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