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Cool Runnings is a Leopard 45 catamaran, owned and run by Bambi and Geoff Alexander who provide a warm welcome aboard to all their guests.
These are your choices :
1. Captain Only :
You take care of all provisioning, meals and beverages. To lighten the load you can nip ashore for lunches and dinners when the mood moves you.
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Take advantage of Bambi's Yummy meals and cut down on your provision list. $10 to $15 per person. Menu list on request, eg : Coq au vin, Caribbean chicken curry, Med. Spagettti meat sauce ( just buy the spagetti noodles) Penne Alfredo Bacon Bake.... and more.
The yacht is yours, choose your route and let us sail you safely to beautiful anchorages, exciting snorkel or dives sites and of course lets not forget the white sun filled beaches!
2. All Inclusive :
This means a total vacation, you do nothing other than relax and work on a tan!
Your Captain Geoff and chef Bambi will do all the work and all the meal preparation all based on your special preferences. Remember that Bambi is a stunning chef and will spoil your taste buds! Dinner is 3 courses.
Includes 6 dinners, 7 lunches and 7 breakfasts, Captain's Bar. Cocktails are a speciality !
You will have one dinner ashore at your expense so as to sample some local flavor.
3. Half Board :
This is much the same as 'All Inclusive' except that you will take 3 lunches and 4 dinners ashore at your own expense.
This allows you to taste and experience the cusine ashore whether it be at Beach Bars or Restaurants all are fun.
We provide all breakfasts, 4 lunches and 3 dinners aboard Cool Runnings.
Includes Captain's Bar.
Captain Only Rates, per week:
2 - 6 pax - $8000
Like a bare boat, with a highly experienced Captain and hostess as your Personal Island Guides.
Charters of less than one week are pro rated.
Minimum Charter 5 Nights
All Inclusive Rates, per week: December to JUly 15 2017
2 pax 11500
3 pax 12000
4 pax 12500
5 pax 13500
6 pax 13500
Charters of less than one week are pro rated.
Minimum charter 4 nights
Add 10 % for Dec 27 to Jan 6
Half Board, per week 6 Jan to July 15 2017
2 pax $11100
4 pax - $11700
6 pax - $12300.
Charters of less than one week are pro rated
Minimum charter 4nights
Christmas & New Years add 10% - 6 pax minimum / 7 day minimum. Sorry, no discounts on Christmas & New Years
Captain Only, and Half Board charters are not available for Christmas & New Year
We pick up in St Thomas, or BVI.
We welcome last minute charters!
We welcome Broker inquiries.
For the latest Cool Runnings happenings, look for us on FaceBook at: Cool Runnings Yacht Charter.
This catamaran has a great charter pedigree and is a former Cruising World Boat-of-the-year. She features three lavish queen-sized cabins each with ensuite heads and showers, and electric toilets. All the cabins are air conditioned. The saloon has CD and Ipod connection, DVD and TV as well as plenty of games. Her tender is a 12-foot rib with an engine powerful enough to pull you or your guests around the bay. She also has a two-seater kayak, stand up paddle board and noodles and floaters for the less active guests. She has enough snorkels and fins for everybody and for the more adventurous Scuba diving and windsurfing can always be arranged.
Some of the best diving in the world is in the BVI, which includes the wreck of the RMS Rhone, which featured in the movie "The Deep".
There is a wide choice of walks and National Parks to be explored. there are numerous attractive beach bars and restaurants around the Islands.
Whether you are looking for a fully crewed, all inclusive vacation with gourmet meals and drinks provided, or a Captain Only vacation that allows you take over in the galley or dine shore, we guarantee our Leopard will be the perfect choice for you.
Bambi is a gourmet chef with more than 20 years experience. In the all inclusive and half board option she will create delicious daily menus for you from your detailed preference sheet which we receive before your arrival.
Come sail away with us today!!
Your Crews
Geoff and Bambi as seen in "Owner Story" will be your crew from January to Mid April.
Theo and Augusta van Rensburg will be your crew from mid April to season end in mid July.
Theo and Augusta van Rensburg. ( Pic in photo gallery)
We, Theo and Augusta van Rensburg, are South Africans (and Namibians!) who love traveling (either by sea, overland with our 4x4r, or by bicycle). Theo was a financial advisor at an Insurance Company, and also had a career as a Solar Engineer. He holds a Yachtmaster Ocean ticket and we have more than 15 000 sea miles under our belts. Augusta is a registered nurse, and also loves cooking and entertaining.
We were married in 1998 and shortly after our 1st anniversary were invited to a marriage retreat, where of course, the dream of 'going sailing' was born. Just 18month later, the boat was bought, the house was packed and off we went! We crossed the Atlantic Ocean on our sailboat "Plumbob", a 30 ft monohull. After 6 months of cruising, we met Geoff and Bambi in Brazil, while sailing on their Catamaran "Alexis". A fond friendship developed quickly and as it happens with sailing friends, sailed off in different directions.
We spent time in Trinidad, Tobago, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, Bahamas and then ended in Florida where we fell in love with the American lifestyle, and Theo completed his Yachtmaster Ocean course. We then had the opportunity to Captain and chef/hostess aboard a 70' Azimut motor yacht. Our yearning for the islands took us back to manage Eustatia Island for American owners in the British Virgin Islands. There we met up again with Geoff and Bambi who were chartering Cool Runnings, and we spent the next 7 wonderful years on Eustatia in the North Sound. It was our home away from home. We made wonderful friends and gained extensive knowledge of life in the Virgins, the sea, the islands and the anchorages.
When the island was sold, we moved on and used the chance to cycle from Ushuaia in Argentina, to Santiago, de Chile. We returned back to South Africa in 2013 and for the next 2 years, worked on establishing a cheetah conservation farm, bordering the Namib Desert in Namibia. Once the project was completed, we returned back to our home base in Cape Town, where we once again got back on our touring bikes and took off on an extended trip that will take us right through South Africa and Namibia. While temporarily back in Cape Town, we met up once again with Geoff and Bambi during their off season break, and we all discussed the possibility of relieve crew duties during the charter season. Since we really miss life in the Islands we decided to join Cool Runnings as crew from the 2016 season and are looking forward and extremely excited to be returning once again to the blue waters of the Caribbean and sharing the beautiful islands with you on your sailing adventure.
Cruising in the Virgin Islands is like sailing through a treasure trove of beauty. (One, the pirates left behind). A sailing dream of constant warm trade winds, pristine waters, forty perfect islands, cays and hundreds of gorgeous anchorages. Topsides there are lush green hills and mountains, sparkling white sandy beaches, a rollicking history of pirates, treasure and rum, beach bars, restaurants and shopping. Down under there is a world of staggering beauty, coral reefs and a tantalizing colour kaleidoscope of tropical fish. This sounds like a tourist promotion, but there it is, all true, now that you have the picture, a perfect, perfect paradise.
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5 night minimum stay
The quoted standard rate is based on captain only. All expenses for your account. First night dinner provided free. Pre ordered meals available at $10 per person.
Full board rates as follows per week: 6 pax $13500, 4pax $12500, 2 pax $11500.
Full board includes all meals ( except one dinner ashore) captains bar and all soft drinks
Half board, 4 dinners and 3 lunches ashore deduct $200 pp per week


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A sea route starting from Jinshuizui Wharf in Jinshan District directly to the Putuo Island on the East China Sea went into operation this month. The piers at both ends have been expanded and renovated.
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APPLE Macintosh computers inspire undying love among most of their owners. Once you've had a Mac, you'll never look back - except when you want a wider choice of software, but we'll discuss that later.
Apple Macs, as they are known, have been around for more than 20 years. Renowned as much for their unique and lively design as their performance, Apple desktop computers now come in a range of different colours, including Ruby, Graphite and Snow. Apple also manufactures laptops, but we will consider those in Week 12.
Although the Mac is technically a PC, most people tend to think of a PC as being a Microsoft Windows-based computer. For simplicity, we will use that definition of a PC here to contrast it with a Mac.
You can buy Apple Macs from the high-street or online, including www.apple.com/uk or discount computer e-tailers such as www.dabs.com, www.cwonline.co.uk or www.macology.co.uk.
Top of the current Apple Mac range is the Power Mac G4, which is loosely targeted at professional users. It has processor speeds from 466MHz to 733MHz as well as a dual processor option for people who have the most demanding desktop publishing requirements, or advanced video editing. These processor speeds may seem slower than those for a PC which can reach the lofty heights of 1.5GHz. However, the Apple's processor called PowerPC is, rather confusingly, equal to a faster PC processor anyway.
To keep things simple, anyone considering buying an Apple Mac should probably avoid difficult comparisons between PC and Apple technology. You should contrast the price instead.
If you buy a PowerMac base unit, you will also need a monitor which is available in 17-inch (£349*), 15-inch flat screen (£579*) or the gorgeous but extraordinarily expensive 22-inch flat panel (£2,799*). Moreover, the speakers and possibly a DVD-Rom are not included in the basic price.
After the pricey Power Mac G4 models, which are only necessary for those with demanding requirements like graphics and video-editing, there are the iMacs. There are four types: iMac, iMac DV, iMac DV+ and iMac DV Special.
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While it comes with fairly powerful components, its capacity for upgrade is limited so it is not most people's first choice of computer. There may also be earlier Mac models available in some shops, but these are not worth buying now unless getting the very cheapest option is your prime consideration.
The advantages of Apple Macs are their ease of use and their capable handling of graphics, publishing and video. They are the computer of choice for digital artists and graphic designers, for example.
If you plan to do anything with video, such as editing pictures from your digital video camera, then an Apple Mac is a good choice. It has built-in Firewire technology, which allows you to easily connect your video camera directly to your Mac.
Most components are easy to add to an Apple Mac, unlike the PC. As Mac components come from one supplier, they tend to be more reliable than a PC. They are also the closest thing the computer industry has to a fashion statement.
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If you are a games player you should definitely opt for a PC as Macs are neither good at games nor do they have as wide a selection. Also, despite the protestations of Mac owners, they crash just as often as comparably priced PCs.
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iMac DV+
- Processor: 450MHz
- Memory: 64Mb
- Hard drive: 20Gb
- Monitor: 15 inch
- 56Kbps modem
- Network connector
- Price: £850*
Basic Power Mac G4
- Processor: 466MHz
- Memory: 128Mb
- Hard drive: 30Gb
- CD-Rewritable drive
- 56Kbps modem
- Network connectorPrice: £1,199*
Advanced Power Mac
- Processor: 733MHz
- Memory: 256Mb
- Hard drive: 60Gb
- 32Mb graphics card
- CD-Rewritable drive
- DVD-ROM drive
- 56Kb modem
- Network connector
- Price: £2,499*
*According to www.apple.co.uk. Prices do not include VAT.
Web devices
A number of companies are offering "limited function" computers that can only surf the internet or send e-mail. These tend to cost around £200 to £300 and come with a keyboard and screen, or in some way use your television screen as the monitor.
There are too many to consider individually, but other than the cost they have little in their favour. They will quickly be outdated and cannot be easily upgraded. If email is all you ever plan to do online then they may be a money saver, but bear in mind you will probably not be able to open any Word documents or video clips.
If you can stretch to the price of a budget PC or Apple Mac, then you will probably get a longer lifespan and much wider use than any of the limited function devices currently available.
- This is the engine of a computer. It performs all the calculations required to run software. Processors are rated by a speed measured in MHz (megahertz) and 1,000MHz equals 1GHz.
The speed is the main measure of how good the processor is and usually dictates the cost.
Memory - This is shorthand for random access memory (RAM or some variant such as SDRAM and RDRAM).
This is what the computer uses to hold data and software while you are using it. When the computer is switched off, memory is blanked out. Within reason, the more memory you have the more software you can run at the same time and the faster it will run.
Hard drive/disk - This is where your information files and software are stored, even when the computer is switched off.
A megabyte (Mb), which is the most commonly used measure of memory and disk storage, is equal to one million bytes or 1,048,576 bytes to be exact depending which definition you use. About 1,000Mb is called a gigabyte (Gb).
A one-page document may only be around 1,000 bytes but the software to create that document could take up 50Mb or more on your drive. Most Apple Macs now have at least 10Gb, or 10,000Mb, of storage space on their hard drive, but they typically have 30Gb.
Monitor - This is the screen for viewing the activity on your computer. It is usually separate from the base unit of your PC. A monitor is measured in inches diagonally across the screen itself.
The basic size is 15 inches but they rise in size and expense all the way up to 25 inches. Flat-screen versions are also available; they take up much less room, but at a price.
Graphics card - All computers have a video adapter that turns the data from software into viewable images on your monitor. However, with the increasing graphical demands of users, people can buy graphics cards (sometimes called graphics accelerator cards) that specialise in handling fast changing images and video.
Some PCs now come with an accelerator card built into the machine while it is a separate component in some more expensive machines. They are easier to upgrade as it simply slides in and out of a designated slot inside the PC.
A graphics card has its own memory measured in megabytes - the more Mbs, the better the card. Some cards have 128Mb of their own memory which is called Video RAM (VRAM).
CD-ROM - This is the part of the PC where you can use your CDs whether they contain software, pictures or music. They come as standard on Apple Macs. They come in different speeds usually described as a number of times "normal speed".
DVD-ROM Player - Digital versatile disk is a new technology which is likely to replace the CD-ROM over time as it can hold nearly 30 times as much information.
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MADRID, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Santander's hiring of Rodrigo Rato, former chairman of rescued lender Bankia , was met with dismay on Wednesday by those Spaniards doubtful that any top financier will be held to account for the country's banking crisis.
Rato, appointed by Santander to its international advisory board on Tuesday, is under investigation over allegations of fraud at Bankia in a court case that could drag on for years.
Spain's biggest bank said it valued the former International Monetary Fund chief's international experience.
For Spaniards who lost their savings in the banking crisis, or shares in Bankia's collapse, Rato is a reviled symbol of the country's untouchable business elite. His image is brandished at demonstrations demanding compensation for small investors.
But he is still a heavyweight in the ruling conservative People's Party and many business and political leaders credit him with turning the country around when he was economy minister in the 1990s.
"When there is impunity, you get a situation where people do not suffer politically, or money-wise, or professionally for what they have done," Rosa Diez, leader of the Union for Progress and Democracy party (UPyD) which asked Spain's High Court to open the investigation into Bankia, told reporters.
Smaller political parties like UPyD and social media led the backlash on Wednesday, though coverage was more muted in leading newspapers, fuelling accusations that they were unwilling to upset influential businesses.
"Santander is a big advertiser, and many newspapers are indebted to the banks," said Ignacio Escolar, editor of eldiario.es, a left-leaning online news site.
"Santander is free to hire who they want, but someone who is involved in a court process...has repercussions for its image, or at least it has repercussions in society," he said.
Rato became one of the faces of Spain's banking crisis after Bankia needed 22.5 billion euros ($30 billion) in aid last year, in a record bailout that pushed the country to ask for European funds to patch up banks unable to cope with a property crash.
The rescues added to the pain of Spaniards already battling a deep recession and soaring unemployment.
Rato had overseen a seven-way merger of former savings banks that became Bankia and the group's 2011 stock market listing.
He was ousted less than a year later, shortly before it was bailed out, leaving hundreds of thousands of ordinary Spaniards nursing losses on the shares they bought.
Rato became the subject of an investigation into allegations of fraud, price-fixing and falsifying accounts in connection with the listing, along with 32 other Bankia board members. He has denied any wrongdoing.
Rato, who also joined the advisory board of Telefonica's European and Latin American units earlier this year, has been a member of Santander's advisory board.
One source with knowledge of the situation said Santander Chairman Emilio Botin valued Rato's political and economic analysis and was likely behind his re-hiring.
Hiring former politicians is common among international banks and Santander already counts a former prime minister of Portugal among other heavyweight external advisers.
"It's very valuable to have someone who can organise meetings with decision-makers on other continents," said Guido Stein, associate professor at the IESE business school.
But many Spaniards were incredulous over the appointment, and "Rodrigo Rato", "Bankia" and "Santander" were among the trending topics in Spain on social media site Twitter.
"With unemployment battering the country, the one who does find a job, again, is Rodrigo Rato," said one Twitter user. ($1 = 0.7491 euros) (Additional reporting by Robert Hetz, Jesus Aguado and Elizabeth O'Leary; Editing by David Cowell)


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QUEENSLAND premier Campbell Newman will try to woo the United States military into using the state for more military exercises and refuelling duties.
He'll push the agenda during a 10-day trade mission in the US and will meet an engineering firm on Friday that works on defence bases.
"It would be great to see more American training exercises in Queensland, it would also be good to see more visits by their vessels, and there is also opportunities being explored in bio-fuels," he said.
"The US fleet are interested in going very heavily into bio-fuels, that is actually a policy position they have, and Queensland way be well position to provide bio-fuels, and obviously we've got the proximity to the region they are interested in, the Asia-Pacific region.
"I think we can really put a good case forward for the use of our ports but also access to bio-fuels, which we need to develop."
Mr Newman is leading a group of companies to Los Angeles, New York and Houston, from March 6 to 15, to boost investment and jobs.
In Houston he'll discuss new technologies to improve gas extraction.
"Queensland has vast resources potentially of shale gas, which is something that I'd like to see explored and developed in our state," he said.
Originally published as Qld premier talks woos army in US