A Wonderful Compliment
I received an e-mail yesterday afternoon from a woman named Lynn Jachney. You probably haven’t heard of her, since she retired from the charter business several years ago, but you should know her name. She’s one of the “Fearsome Foursome,” a quartet of ladies credited with having started the entire charter broker industry in the Caribbean back in the 1960s and ’70s.
Lynn e-mailed to thank me for having sent her a copy of my book Have the Whole Boat: The Insider’s Guide to Private Yacht Charter Vacations. I have to tell you, I was more than a little nervous when she requested it. If anybody might see flaws in the writing or content, it obviously would be someone like Lynn. After all, she was running around the world creating the industry when I was still being potty-trained.
I don’t think she’d mind if I shared just one line of her e-mail about my book: “I’ve been through it all and have to applaud you for getting it so right.”
This single, private compliment from this particular person means more to me than all the positive media reviews I’ve received on the book thus far. I’m getting choked up here just typing it for you to read.
That phrase–”getting it so right”–is exactly what I strive for both in print and here on CharterWave. I can’t tell you how thrilling it is for someone of Lynn’s caliber to endorse the work I’ve done so far. It’s truly a memorable pat on the back.
She also happened to mention in her e-mail that she’s a frequent reader of CharterWave, a comment that tells me I’m getting things right online, too. That would help to explain CharterWave’s growing readership base (36,000 people a year and still climbing), our recent uptick in requests for advertising packages, and our increasing exposure in general-interest media as the source for charter information.
So hello, Lynn, if you’re reading this, and thanks again for making my day. Hopefully, all of this information you find “so right” in my book and here on CharterWave will help thousands more people take advantage of the industry you helped to create.