Southwest Florida Adventures

David Hughes★★★★★ 4 years agoView on Google

We have been customers of Southwest Florida Yachts for about 10 years and have chartered more than a dozen times. This is a well-managed business that balances the needs of customers with the liabilities of loaning boats out that belong to other owners. That responsibility to customer safety is serious and thus behind some of the negative reviews I am seeing here where people without much experience on larger, salt…

steven carawan★★★★★ 6 years agoView on Google

Ideal vacation, especially during this pandemic. Trawlers are clean and very well maintained. Marina facilities are very nice and the staff are both informative and polite. Even for the experienced captain, I recommend hiring a captain for at least one day. Capt. Chris answered every question we had and provided the "local knowledge" necessary for an enjoyable trip. I have chartered boats for short vacations nu…

William Bigelow★★★★★ 4 years agoView on Google

We have been doing bareboat charters for nearly 20 years. We have used several charter companies for both sail and power. By far the best has been SWFY because of their consistent professional approach and the quality of their fleet. On our last trip we struck a submerged object resulting in damage to both props. Their GM responded immediately, walked us through what to do and we thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the tr…

Peter Boothroyd★★★★★ 2 years agoView on Google

My wife (First Mate) and I (Captain) have done three bareboat charters with Southwest Florida Yachts (SFY): a 32-foot, single-engine Grand Banks trawler ("Patience") in 2011, a 34-foot, single-engine Mainship trawler ("Quarter Moon") in 2013 and a 42-foot, twin engine Grand Banks trawler ("Buena Vista") in 2014. In each charter, SFY provided excellent, professional support and service. Buena Vista was our favorite v…

Leigh Oldershaw★★★★★ 4 years agoView on Google

We chartered a 40-foot catamaran with Southwest Florida Yachts for a week. Unfortunately, we found them to be breathtakingly unprofessional and frustrating to deal with. Not only was the registration process a pain (all via snail mail/they kept forgetting to give us our contract), the boat was in poor condition (the entry door didn't lock because it was broken, one head reeked of urine, and the boat clearly had not b…

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