Shorter-Length Liveaboard?

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• Sep 10, 2008

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Hello. I'm considering a liveaboard as my next vacation with my girlfriend. However, neither my girlfriend nor myself have tried this type of vacation before and the lengths of the trips I've seen have generally been one week or longer.

So my question is whether anyone knows of a shorter length liveaboard trip? Three days or so would be perfect, I think. Enough to let us try it out to see if we'd want to do it for longer in the future.

Thanks for all the help.

 

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• Sep 10, 2008

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Check out Truth Aquatics for diving around the Channel Islands. 3 and 4 day trips.

 

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• Sep 11, 2008

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Gulfstream Eagle does 3 and 4-nighters this time of year. They run from West Palm Beach to the West End area of Grand Bahama. Welcome to the Gulf Stream Eagle Liveaboard - Bahamas, CaySal, Bimini

 

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• Sep 11, 2008

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Three dights to the Dry Tortugas aboard the Ultimate Getaway.

 

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• Sep 11, 2008

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tvictory:

Gulfstream Eagle does 3 and 4-nighters this time of year. They run from West Palm Beach to the West End area of Grand Bahama. Welcome to the Gulf Stream Eagle Liveaboard - Bahamas, CaySal, Bimini

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Our spring break is 4/2/09 until 4/12/09........they don't have any charter then?
What's up with that?

 

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• Sep 11, 2008

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tvictory:

Gulfstream Eagle does 3 and 4-nighters this time of year. They run from West Palm Beach to the West End area of Grand Bahama. Welcome to the Gulf Stream Eagle Liveaboard - Bahamas, CaySal, Bimini

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This boat is for sale.

It would really suck for the original poster to fly all the away across the country and have to buy two plane tickets only to find out after he booked it all that the boat was sold...

There are other choices. Several Channel Island boats near him that don't require a plane flight. Also the Ultimate Getaway like mentioned also.

 

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• Sep 11, 2008

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You could also try the Horizon (Science Horizons, Inc.) out of San Diego or the Peace Boat (Peace Dive Boat) out of Santa Barbara. I highly recommend both boats. The Horizon even has "cabins" if you want a little privacy.

 

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• Sep 12, 2008

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caymaniac:

Our spring break is 4/2/09 until 4/12/09........they don't have any charter then?
What's up with that?

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Sharkdiver.com has the boat booked for that week.

 

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• Sep 12, 2008

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Mike Ball's Spoilsport has 3 day trips to Cod Hole/Ribbon Reefs out of Cairns, Australia. This was my first liveaboard last summer and I thought they were fabulous. It's a lot farther than you may be planning for a vacation, but at least easier to get to from LAX than where I live now (I was living in Long Beach when I made the trip).

 

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• Sep 12, 2008

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are you thinking of a tropical liveaboard or local? Budget?

A 3 night on a boat with lots of bunks and shared heads is a completely different experience than the week or more luxury liveaboard with private cabins and baths. ANd of course there is lots of in-between.

If you go tropical or any distance, I'd suggest someplace where you'd then want to stay on land for some more days, and maybe do some more land-based diving - instead of flying all that way for just a few days.