Hello, Great Lakes
Yesterday, I blogged about how you have to be careful when choosing to charter in an emerging destination–but how doing so can be a fantastic vacation if all the pieces fall into place. Today, I’m going to introduce you to what appears to be just such an opportunity, a yacht in the emerging charter area of the Great Lakes that has the potential to be a great deal.
I found out about the 102-foot motoryacht Liquidity from Crom Littlejohn, a broker with Merle Wood & Associates in Fort Lauderdale. He and I were chatting at the Newport charter show last week, and he mentioned that Liquidity’s current captain used to be his own mate. Thus, he knows both the yacht and the Great Lakes area better than most other charter brokers, and he recommends it for charter this time of year.
“In my opinion,” he told me, “that’s going to be one of the next big spots. More and more guys from the Midwest are buying big boats now, and there’s just wonderful cruising up there. I did it for about five years, Cleveland, Chicago…”
My advice from yesterday still holds, of course: Be ready to be flexible when chartering in an emerging destination, and work with a reputable charter broker, in this case, ideally someone like Crom who knows the location personally.
Liquidity’s weekly base rate is $27,500 for eight guests with four crew. She’s accepting bookings now.