I have finally, after many years of blogging, attempted to separate my “personal” photos and blogging from my “business” sites and photos. For many years I maintained my blog at SailDiveBVI. I put all my blogging on there for Yacht Promenade as well. Eventually SailDiveBVI became our company for booking charters on other yachts and we starting blogging on Yacht Promenade for anything related to the yacht and charters, including the weekly photo blog we keep going when guests are on board. If you are not confused by now, I am! This is the final step. This website will be for my personal ramblings, pictures and blogging. This way friends and family can keep up with what I am doing, and I will keep links on here to all my various web sites, Twitter Feeds and Facebook pages for those who are only interested in certain aspects of our life. Then again, maybe no one is interested in any of it, and that is fine as I find that just the act of writing about it
Wonderings & Musings of a BVI Charter Captain
My life, under, on & above water
Just saw your post about Serendy, a sad end indeed. She was a great boat and she didn’t deserve an ending like this. I don’t know how she came to be so neglected, but she will be missed. Thank you for posting the story.
Erik Selness
My oldest son found your article of your Serendy experience and story and sent it to me.
I was the owner of Serendy when you looked to purchase her. Owned her from 1997 until 2002. Two years from Florida to Venezuela with my wife and 4 teen boys. Repainted her from blue to white in Trinidad. Great boat and this ending makes me sad not because she sank but because she was neglected and not refloated. First saw her in Mexico when she was in whale charter out of La Paz and we were down there for the winter on another boat. We toured her with Captain Steve Arnett and told him if she ever came up for sale to let us know. Three years later we were looking at an 83′ monohull on a dock in Florida when we happened to run into Steve and he told us that Serendy was for sale. As they say “the rest is history”.
Richard Woolworth
woolinvest @aol.com
I find the back stories on all these old work horses in the industry fascinating! Just as a by the way, I am not sure if I put up the pictures or not, but Sea Tow in St Thomas cleaned up the final pieces of Serendy this off season along with a lot of hurricane wrecked boats in the USVI.
Hello all right? I saw your blog and found a post Mishaps Yacht? Yacht Pollux from the Azores, registered in Praia da Vitória in the Azores, I think that is the boat of my father who disappeared in the same April 22, 2011, until today that both I and my family and his friends do not know what you happened or where it will be, grateful to get in touch with me as soon as possible.