BYC News

Caribbean Chartering

Posted by Kenny on December 30, 2011 at 12:48 pm

Butterfly is available to Charter in the Caribbean from Christmas 2011 until Antigua Race week 2012.
The yacht will be based around Antigua, W.I. and is available for charter around the beautiful Leeward & Windward islands throughout the season.
The yacht will be skippered by an expert skipper with extensive local knowledge of the whole of the [...]

Round The Island Race – June 2011

Posted by Kenny on June 29, 2011 at 6:38 pm

June 25th gave rise to another fantastic round the island race for butterfly, Kenny, Simon and Dan were joined by eight guests, which we must say were a really good crowd and a great time was had by all. The strong winds provided perfect sailing conditions for butterfly and we ended up in 325th position [...]

The warm weather is here!

Posted by peter on April 18, 2011 at 8:19 am

What lovely weather we have had so far in April. The Solent was like a millpond on Saturday 16th but we managed to have some asymmetric sail practice outside beautiful Lymington. The sail went up without any problems and we practised gybing ready for the Round The Island race in June this year.
And because the [...]

Summer Update

Posted by Kenny on August 12, 2010 at 8:14 pm

Well that is another Cowes week over , hopefully all of you who participated enjoyed the atmosphere and hopefully some of you managed to get onto the Podium if you managed to get out of the beer tents!!
Butterfly has been manic and crazy but most of all really enjoyable, we have had some really great [...]

Butterfly 4th Year

Posted by Kenny on July 1, 2010 at 8:41 pm

Butterfly Yacht Charters is now into its 4th year, so firstly I would like to say thanks to everyone who has spent time with us on the water.
After having had some awful weather to start the season , (well done those who braved the cold!), we must all be pleased with the recent high pressure [...]

All Clean!

Posted by admin on April 20, 2010 at 3:59 pm

We’ve just had Butterfly out the water for her annual inspection and anti-fouling (that’s where they remove all the organisms that attach to the hull which affects performance and durability).
Once she’s back in the water we’ll check over all her instruments on a test sail ready for more charters.