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Seaquest is a semi-custom motor yacht launched in 2008 by Westport.

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The motor yacht SEAQUEST is a superyacht of large proportions. This 50 m (164 ft) luxury yacht was begun and finished by Westport Shipyard in 2008. Superyacht SEAQUEST is a well designed yacht that can sleep as many as 16 guests on board and has approximately 12 crew members. The firm of naval architecture that made the design work in respect of the yacht was William Garden and Westport. Donald Starkey Designs was the one who saw out the overall interior design.

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The yacht's general design work came from William Garden and Westport. The formal naval architect firm plans are a creation of William Garden. Motor Yacht SEAQUEST received her elegant interior designing from the interior design office of Donald Starkey Designs. Created by Westport Shipyard this yacht was constructed in the yacht producing country of the United States. She was officially launched in Port Angeles Wa in 2008 before being transferred to the owner. The core hull was built out of composite. The motor yacht superstructure is fabricated extensively with composite. With a beam of 9.4 metres / 30.9 ft SEAQUEST has spacious interior. A reasonably shallow draught of 2.4m (7.9ft) affects the amount of overall harbours she can enter, depending on their individual depth at low tide.

M/Y SEAQUEST Engineering & Speeds:

The yacht makes use of twin powerful MTU main engine(s) and can reach a exhilaratory maximum continuous speed at 24 knots. The engine of the ship gives 3650 horse power (or 1678 kilowatts). Her total HP is 4560 HP and her total Kilowatts are 3356. She is driven by twin screw propellers. SEAQUEST has a/an quick cruise speed is 20 knots which enables a range of 5200.

Superyacht SEAQUEST Has The Following Accommodation:

With space for a maximum of 16 yacht guests spending the night, the SEAQUEST accommodates them luxuriously. Normally the vessel utilises approximately 12 proficient crew members to operate.

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In October 2009 SEAQUEST traveled to Noank, in United States. This motor yacht also traveled the area including New London County during the month of Sept 2009. This motor yacht has a teak deck.

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The 130-foot (39.6m) SEAQUEST is now available for charter with Northrop & Johnson. The superyacht is available for charter in The Bahamas and the Caribbean in the winter and the West Coast United States, including Alaska , in the Summer. Charters start at $105,000 per week, plus expenses. 

Charter yacht SEAQUEST offers endless possibilities for guest enjoyment. From playing with the water toys to lazing on the sundeck to enjoying five-star meals prepared by the onboard chef, charter guests will fall in love with SEAQUEST and her impressive crew of seven. SEAQUEST was built by Westport in 2005 and refitted in 2015. The yacht has continued to receive annual upgrades and improvements, ensuring she is in top condition for guests.

The luxury charter yacht’s interior showcases an inviting ambiance with fresh, modern styling with nautical touches. SEAQUEST has two interior common areas for guests to enjoy, a welcoming main salon with formal dining and a relaxing skylounge. Charter yacht SEAQUEST welcomes 10 guests in five sumptuous staterooms. The yacht showcases a main deck master, two king VIP staterooms and two twin-bed staterooms. Each stateroom is complete with a private en-suite bath.

SEAQUEST has spacious decks areas where guests can enjoy the best of the alfresco lifestyle. On the main deck aft, the yacht has a charming alfresco dining area with a dining table, bar and built-in couch. Two stairways lead down to the yacht’s swim platform where guests can spend hours playing with the yacht’s large selection of water toys. The superyacht’s foredeck is an idyllic private escape where guests can soak in the Jacuzzi taking in the stunning sea views. But the best place to take in the picturesque sights of the cruising location is the sundeck. Here guests can lounge, socialize, and sunbathe with 360-degree views of the destination.

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She had an extensive interior refit.  Indeed, Westport 130 yacht SEAQUEST looks as fresh and new as the day she first launched.  Her design offers unsurpassed style and comfort.  Moreover, this nearly 40 meter Bahamas yacht charter vessel boasts functional, yet luxurious interiors. They function for privacy and relaxation. She features a five-stateroom arrangement.  For instance, an impressive salon, and expansive deck areas ensure charter guests will thoroughly enjoy their time aboard motor yacht SEAQUEST.

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The master suite is forward on the main deck. The quarters offer a king berth and a spacious bathroom with a large shower and separate whirlpool tub. A walk-in closet just aft to starboard leaves plenty of space in the main room for an attractive desk/vanity.

Four ensuite guest staterooms are located below deck, two with twin berths and two VIP’s with Kings.

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She is a USA-build.  In addition, her design and engineering are American-made, also.  The Westport 130 delivers the comfort of a superyacht in a charter-friendly layout.  The yacht features large outdoor decks. In addition, a spacious interior.  An expansive assortment of water toys makes her the perfect platform. In specific, for adventure in the clear, shallow waters of the Bahamas.

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Stavropol Krai is a region in Southern Russia , which borders Krasnodar Krai to the west, Rostov Oblast to the north, Kalmykia to the east, and all the republics of the North Caucasus to the south.

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• 45.05 41.983333 1 Stavropol — this capital city is located in a particularly mountainous area of the region and was one of Russia's most important bases during the Russian conquest of the Caucasus ; former home to Mikhail Gorbachev and it has a particularly nice urban park
• 44.200833 43.1125 5 Mineralnye Vody — a health spa city named for its "Mineral Waters" at the edge of the; a common flight destination for visitors to the North Caucasus

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Stavropol Krai contains a large number of Caucasian health spas/sanatoria, which Russians have visited for over 200 years to treat various ailments (and just to escape the northern climate of Moscow and Saint Petersburg . As such, the region has been home to many of Russia's most prominent figures, including writers such as A.S. Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, whose works have embedded the Pyatigorsk region into the national consciousness. A great read for anyone visiting the region is Lermontov's short novel, A Hero of Our Time , which is set in various areas in the south of the Krai.

Stavropol Krai is also notable for its exceptionally diverse climactic and topographic diversity. The environments range from sand deserts, to mud flats, to steppe, to forest, to mountains, to permafrost!

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Russian is the soup of the day.

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By rail, most visitors will arrive at the regional transit hub of Stavropol .

Domestic flights to Stavropol ( STW  IATA )and to Mineralnye Vody ( MRV  IATA ) (which is closer to Mount Elbrus, the North Caucasus , and the health spas) are common around Russia.

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• Mountain Beshtau Uranium Mines (RU) . 238 kilometers of mines inside Mount Beshtau 7 km from Pyatigorsk city. Closed in ~ 1971, but explored by diggers today. The site guides offers adventure descend into the mines with ropes and equipment. ( updated Mar 2019 )

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• Mountain climbing
• Quail hunting
• Sulphur baths

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Because of its proximity to the conflict in Chechnya , the security situation is very poor in Stavropol Krai. While kidnappings are unlikely, there have been fairly regular bombings of public areas and official facilities in the southern cities and in Stavropol over the years. While a visitor is fairly unlikely to be victim to such terroristic attacks, the resulting crackdown has led to strict and unfortunately corrupt policing of the area — a visitor is quite likely to be harassed for bribes.

Stavropol Krai is the nearest “island of freedom” (in every sense) for residents of neighboring Chechnya and Ingushetia, who often visit this region for entertainment purposes (alcohol, nightclubs), therefore, it is not uncommon to run into them in entertainment establishments and at night on the streets. They are often armed with knives and pistols. To prevent conflicts, it is better to refrain from reacting to possible provocations on their part and simply walk away from them.

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• Stavropol State University — located in Stavropol, owned in 1996
• North Caucasus Gumanitarium Technological University — main located in Stavropol, but have own filials in Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk and Ingushetia
• North Caucasus Gumanitarium Technological Institute;
• Stavropol State Medical Academy
• Stavropol State Agrarium University — one of the best agrarium university in Russia;
• Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University — one of the best linguistic university in Russia.Located in Pyatigorsk;
• Pyatigorsk State Technological University — located in Pyatigorsk
• Kislovodsk State Technological University — located in Kislovodsk

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In Stavropol krai there are three GSM operators (MTS, Beeline, Megafon), one 3G-UMTS operator (Beeline) and one CDMA operator on 800 MHz frequency (RusSDO) and they often have offers that give you a SIM card for free or at least very cheap. If you are planning to stay a while and to keep in touch with Stavropolean and other North-Caucasus, South-Russians people, then you should consider buying a local SIM card instead of going on roaming. If you buy a SIM card from a shop you'll need your passport for identification. It only takes five minutes to do the paperwork and it will cost less than $10.

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Stavropol Krai is a common jumping off point for tourists venturing into the North Caucasus . Basically any city in the region can be reached via minibus or taxi from Mineralnye Vody.

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Stavropol, South Russia: In Search of Gorbachev’s Roots

The origins of a soviet leader revered as a visionary reformer in the west, but reviled as a weak American puppet in his native land

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P eople of my generation — Westerners at least — who grew up at the tail-end of the Cold War can still get a bit starry-eyed about Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the former Soviet premier who celebrated his ninetieth birthday in March this year. Leader from 1985 to 1991, he seemed to end the Cold War overnight, showed us “communism with a human face” and appeared at pains to sign away the nuclear weapons we had spent our childhoods cowering from.

A leader popular enough to get a nickname, to us he was “Gorby”, the man in the black trilby, the approachable Soviet premier that Margaret Thatcher could “do business with”. He was the communist who made Reagan revise his estimates of the USSR as “an Evil Empire” and consign the phrase to “another time, another era.”

Yet in Russia itself, away from metropolitan liberal circles, pro-Gorby declarations are usually met with pity or contempt. In his own country, he is remembered as the windbag with port wine stains — “Misha the Marked” — the apparatchik who harangued them with interminable speeches in a Wurzel-like Southern burr and let them down where it really mattered. He left the economy in ruins, the shops empty, the queues for household goods a daily torment.

With his perestroika (a radical restructuring of Soviet life) and glasnost (openness) he managed to break up an empire, shaking the USSR so hard it came to pieces in his hands. “A traitor”, you hear, “a weak, soft leader”, “naïve”, a “bad politician” and — the worst crime of all — “He was working for the Americans”.

Objections that he worked not for but with the Americans and had to do so to save the Soviet economy, are usually dismissed. For many, Gorbachev did the unforgivable. “What can one make,” muttered one Russian acquaintance, “of a man who inherits a family of nations and then just gives it all away?”

Yet as with so many of my generation, Gorby-loyalty is in my DNA. Those of us who have spent our adult lives travelling or living in Eastern Europe largely owe them to Gorbachev and his reforms, his demolishing of the Iron Curtain. At any rate, when I was offered the chance to visit his birthplace in South Russia earlier this year, I grabbed it at once. There were few world-figures whose origins interested me more.

Cupolas and idealism

G orbachev’s birthplace, Privolnoe, can be found about 90 miles north of Stavropol, the Southern city he was later to make, as Regional General Secretary, almost literally his own. It’s a village of about 3,000 people surrounded by, as he put it, “steppe, steppe and more steppe”, endless flat green prairie.

Alongside the motorway heading to it are numerous roadside cemeteries and thickets of trees all painted, in the Russian way, fetlock-high in whitewash, a precaution against insects and heat. The sun beats down from a vast sky and the floating clouds are a procession of wonderful shapes. Some look like work-brigades, some faintly like sputniks, others like combine harvesters. Here the weather can change instantly: Brits will feel at home. Privolnoe today is a well-manicured collection of one-storey brick or wooden houses complete with iris-blue shutters. It is surrounded by playing fields for the village’s kids, and springy-looking meadows with wildflowers.

Unlike many Russian villages it has an infrastructure — for which read a bar and a decent supermarket — and everywhere there are stabs at a kind of (naïve) idealism. By the side of the road an enormous figure of a goose sits by a fairy-tale well, with the slogan “Protect Beauty” next to it. There’s a children’s playground called “The Ant Hill” with a mocked-up dragon and robots, and an Eternal Flame at the end of an avenue.

Nearby is one of the city’s war memorials. As different from ours as can be imagined, it shows the faces, absurdly young, of four of the city’s fallen, with “They Could Have Lived” accusing you beside them. Right behind are the cupolas of the village’s Orthodox Church — funded, it seems, heavily by Gorbachev — and the village’s “House of Culture” for knees-ups and fun. Though populated, like most Russian villages, either by children or the elderly (those of working age have left for the city) it’s a place whose pride in itself is clear.

Childhood of terrors

I t was Gorbachev’s house I wanted to find, and the first person I asked pointed me to it. It can be found by turning left down a side-road, then left again by the school — a dull grey building with happy transfers of aeroplanes and tanks stuck to the window, at which Gorbachev himself studied way back when. There’s little fanfare surrounding the Gorbachev home: simply a grey brick building behind fences with a metal roof and those trademark blue shutters which seem to define the village. It looks closed-up and unvisited, except by foreign film crews and Gorb-anoraks such as myself.

When I tell a cashier at the local shop why I’m there, her lip curls: “Oh, so you respect him in England, do you?” In a BBC news extract from 2016, villagers were more balanced. “Of course, Mikhail did a lot for our village, a lot,” one local says, “but as for the USSR, we’re upset about that.” Another echoes him, “Germany’s united now, but our country fell apart. That’s a mistake by our leaders. They could have saved it.”

Privolnoe has endured worse. The village, founded in 1861, has been through as much as any southern Russian village, but 1931, when Gorbachev was born, was one of the low points. Stavropol Krai , Privolnoe’s region, is heavily agricultural, packed with sunflowers and wheat. This made it vulnerable to Stalin’s collectivisation campaign, as he wrenched private land away from reluctant local farmers, to herd them into kolkhozes — collective farms — or send the richer of them to the Gulag.

For those who didn’t comply, a worse fate awaited, and this spelt terror for places like Privolnoe. A terrible famine was inflicted on the South — most notoriously in the Ukraine but here and in Kazakhstan as well — as an already chaotically disrupted workforce saw the grain quotas demanded of them soar, starving the locals to death.

Family memories

I t became a capital crime to steal even an ear of corn, and between 1932 and 1933, two of Gorbachev’s uncles and one of his aunts were to die of starvation. Gorbachev’s earliest childhood memory was of his grandfather boiling up frogs in a desperate attempt to feed his family. He remembered, he said, their white stomachs floating in the bubbling water, though couldn’t remember if he’d choked one down or not.

Such memories are far from uncommon in this region: many families went through the same. Nor was it unique that both Gorbachev’s grandfathers — farmers the pair of them — should be imprisoned under Stalin. One of them, the communist Pantelei, whose zeal didn’t save him from arrest quotas in 1937, was tortured so badly he returned, Gorbachev said, a permanently altered man. The other, Andrei — a pronounced anti-Red — worked so hard in the Gulag he came back from Siberia with four medals for it, thereafter swallowing his politics and getting on with the job.

The terror of Gorbachev’s early childhood gave way to others as the Germans roared into his village in 1941

As his biographer, William Taubman, pointed out, Gorbachev’s life as a child was already ideologically riven. Andrei’s house was stuffed with religious icons, Pantelei’s with portraits of Stalin and Lenin. The grandfather who believed in Christianity was hard as nails, while Pantelei, the Party Man, was warm and kind, and despite his rural background seemed almost an intellectual. Gorbachev seemed to live out these contradictions all his life.

The terror of Gorbachev’s early childhood gave way to others as the Germans roared into his village in 1941. Their four-month occupation left the place in tatters, the community divided, the women reduced to dragging ploughs themselves in a desperate attempt at a harvest. For a period, Gorbachev lived on a single cup of uncooked grain a day.

Later, as men up to the age of 50 were conscripted and the working age dropped to 12, he began to slog regularly as an employee of the Machine Tractor-Station. In 1949, just turned 18, he received “The Order of the Red Banner of Labour”. Along with his candidate membership of the Party, it ushered him into Moscow University, to study law. It was goodbye to the village.

Unstoppable rise

I t is difficult to think of greater contrasts to Privolnoe than Moscow, but Gorbachev never worked as the lawyer he trained to become there. When he emerged with a degree five years later, it was to a different world.

Gorbachev had in 1953 married his Raisa, a philosophy student, but something even more momentous happened that same year. A few months earlier, Stalin had died and the country was changing fast. In Stavropol region — Gorbachev went back there to start his working life — there was a shattering backlog of cases, as prisoners flung into Gulags for poor harvests in the thirties now had their charges re-evaluated and their sentences overturned.

To a newly-wed, one can see why the backbreaking tonnage of legal paperwork might not have appealed. Instead, Komsomol, the Soviet youth organisation (a kind of boy-scouts/girl-guides with political teeth) had vacancies, many of their senior members leaping to fill posts at the newly-created KGB. Within a few years, Gorby had been made Komsomol First Secretary for the region. His unstoppable rise had begun.

By now, he and Raisa were living in Stavropol. A fort-town in the North Caucasus, it was established in 1777 and is now Russia’s “greenist city”. Today Stavropol is stuffed with shopping centres, wine bars, street cafes and a population of 400,000. Back when Gorbachev arrived, it barely scraped a quarter of that, the town almost a big village.

Raisa Gorbacheva, she of the natty dress-sense and catty relationship with US First Lady Nancy Reagan, spoke about the “sea of mud” she had to cross to get to the Teachers’ Institute, the lack of central heating and running water (she and Gorbachev had to fetch theirs from a public fountain).

Not that life started very beautifully for the Gorbachevs in Stavropol. They lived in a single room with (in Raisa’s words) “a bed, a table, two chairs and two huge boxes full of books”. Raisa cooked each night on a paraffin burner in the communal corridor. The house, 49 Kazansky Street, a solid-looking affair, can still be found quite easily, up a slope and a sandy road, though there’s no plaque at all to its previous occupants (in fact Stavropol region, in terms of memorials, seems to have washed its hands of the Gorbachevs altogether).

As Gorbachev worked his way up through Komsomol and then the Party, their circumstances improved, with better properties on Morozov and Dzherzhinski streets. These names (still in place) are bitterly ironic — one referring to a young snitch (Pavel Morozov) who shopped his parents for unorthodoxy, the other to Felix Dzerzhinski, creator of the Soviet secret police. A Russia, in other words, Gorbachev did so much to try and free his people from.

Perestroika , he always said, had started for him in Stavropol. Made General Secretary for the entire region in 1970 — the Stavropol party boss — he brought in numerous reforms to agricultural work, introducing incentives and restructuring the farming system. Colleagues from the time have mixed memories. Some of them speak of his geniality, his openness and energy, the fact he drank so little. Yet historian William Taubman reports others describing him as “vain and easily offended”, “two-faced” in his habit of saying “different things to different people”, and “with a craving for power that led him to fawn on those who would give it to him.”

Such things though were endemic to the USSR and arguably came with the job, and the Gorbachev we know in the West was summed up by another colleague: “He was a great guy: inspiring, loved to joke and laugh, didn’t get drunk, a good, progressive thinker.”

Powerful allies

O nly one criticism was to dog him throughout his career: his failure to thank the people who helped him. Later, in the Kremlin, it bled loyalty away from those who might have been his rescuers.

But nothing helped Gorbachev more in his ambitions than Stavropol itself. At the bicentenary of the city in 1977 (part of his luck), a key visitor from Moscow was Mikhail Suslov — Chief Ideologue of the Party and creepy grey eminence of the Brezhnev years. Gorbachev, ever the genial host, schmoozed him and made an ally. He was boosted too by Stavropol’s geography, and those sanatoria in the Caucasian mountains. Not only Suslov but prime minister Kosygin and KGB head Yuri Andropov had diabetes and kidney problems. When they visited the South for treatment, Gorbachev was on hand to wine and dine them, gaining three patrons in the process.

In November 1978, after some stunning agricultural successes, he received the call to join the Central Committee in Moscow. He and Raisa packed their bags and left Stavropol forever — back to Moscow and the centre of power. Just seven years and three dead General Secretaries later, Gorbachev, aged 54, would be leading the whole empire.

His father Sergei, who from Privolnoe witnessed so many of his son’s successes, wasn’t alive to see these ones, having died in 1976 (his grave is easily locatable in Privolnoe’s tranquil cemetery). But his words from an earlier letter give some sense of what Gorbachev’s family might have felt:

“We congratulate you on your new job. There is no limit to your mother’s and father’s joy and pride. We wish you good health and great strength for your work for your country’s well-being.”

Heartening words, from a father to a son. But whether you nod respectfully at that final phrase or scream with laughter will very much depend, it seems, on a single thing: which side of the Iron Curtain you grew up on. Perhaps the last word, though, should go to Gorbachev himself. Asked by film-maker Werner Herzog in 2019 what his epitaph should be, he had a ready answer: “Mi staralis … We tried.”

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YOLO YACHT CHARTER

39.62m  /  130'   westport yachts   2005 / 2022.

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Cabin Configuration

Special Features:

• Recent refit in 2022
• Sleeps 10 guests
• 11.89m/39' SeaVee Tender

YOLO is an outstanding candidate for a perfect yacht charter vacation

The 39.62m/130' motor yacht 'YOLO' by the American shipyard Westport Yachts offers flexible accommodation for up to 10 guests in 5 cabins and features interior styling by Pacific Custom Interiors.

Built in 2005, YOLO offers beautifully proportioned decks for exquisite indoor/outdoor living during a luxury yacht charter .

Guest Accommodation

YOLO offers guest accommodation for up to 10 guests in 5 suites comprising a master suite, two double cabins and two twin cabins. There are 7 beds in total, including 3 king and 4 singles. She is also capable of carrying up to 7 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht charter experience.

Onboard Comfort & Entertainment

Keeping comfortable and entertained on YOLO is easy thanks to the available amenities, particularly a gym with all the latest equipment to maintain your fitness routine. Soak up the bubbles in style in the deck jacuzzi.

Whatever your activities on your charter, you'll find some impressive features are seamlessly integrated to help you, particularly satellite communications, keeping you connected on any voyage. Whether you want to work, use social media or stream movies on board this yacht, you can with Wi-Fi connectivity and in addition guests will experience complete comfort while chartering thanks to air conditioning.

Performance & Range

Built with a GRP hull and GRP superstructure, she benefits from a semi-displacement hull to provide exceptional seakeeping and impressive speeds. Powered by twin MTU engines, she comfortably cruises at 20 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 28 knots with a range of up to 800 nautical miles from her 37,472 litre fuel tanks.

Onboard YOLO has a range of toys and accessories to keep you and your guests entertained on the water throughout your stay. Guests can feel the wind in their hair and jump the waves on one of the three SeaDoo WaveRunners. In addition there are waterskis that are hugely entertaining whether you are a beginner or a seasoned pro. Another excellent feature are two F5 SEABOBs, that allow you to skim along the surface or steer under the crystal water and see a variety of aquatic sea life. If that isn't enough YOLO also features wakeboards, kayaks, paddleboards and snorkelling equipment. YOLO features two tenders, but leading the pack is a 11.89m/39' SeaVee Tender to transport you in style.

Based in the magical waters of the Caribbean all year round YOLO is ready for your next luxury yacht charter. Let YOLO Discover the magical places, food and experiences of the the Caribbean.

This luxury motor yacht for charter is in prime condition to host your next holiday of a lifetime.

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Amenities & Entertainment

For your relaxation and entertainment YOLO has the following facilities, for more details please speak to your yacht charter broker.

YOLO is reported to be available to Charter with the following recreation facilities:

• 1 x 11.89m  /  39' SeaVee Tender
• 1 x 5.18m  /  17' Williams Jet Tender

For a full list of all available amenities & entertainment facilities, or price to hire additional equipment please contact your broker.

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• Entertainment

YOLO is reported to be available to Charter with the following entertainment facilities:

• SAT TV, DVDs , Kaleidoscope with huge selection of films on demand 
• 63’’ home theatre in the skylounge
• XBox and Wii 
• iPad controls in each cabin

For a full list of all available amenities & entertainment facilities, or price to hire additional equipment please contact your broker.

'YOLO' Charter Rates & Destinations

Summer Season

May - September

$120,000 p/week + expenses

High Season

Cruising Regions

Caribbean Bahamas

Winter Season

October - April

$138,000 p/week + expenses

Caribbean Antigua, Bahamas, Saint Martin, St Barts

HOT SPOTS:   Virgin Islands

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