Word: bareboaters
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...headboat" with a dozen strangers. But in recent years a new way of vacation cruising has taken on, and it promises to do to crewed charters what Hertz did to chauffeured cars. This is bareboating -hiring a yacht without crew and sailing it yourself. In 1966 only two dozen bareboats were working in the entire Caribbean. Today there are some 270, and in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands (the center of the industry, with 120 boats available) there are more bareboat berths filled in a season than hotel rooms. Costing only between $150 and $300 per head per week...
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