Can anyone take me and my dog to the Caribbean?

Hi,

Can't you fly the pooch all the way?

If you think it is a long flight in a jet, wait till you try it in a private boat.

But this is an interesting troll.

Hi,

I don't want to come across as cruel and heartless but......

Has your dog spent 3 or more weeks on a boat in the open Ocean before?

Where will she crap/piss while on someone elses boat?

I was on a boat where we did an 8 week charter with a Siberian Husky as a surprise guest it would have been merciful for us and the mutt if it had gone over the side in heavy weather.

LGW - ANU is about 8 hours, pump a few pills into her and stick her on the plane. It will be the kindest way for all concerned.

Have you checked if there are any restrictions on her entering your final destination?

I was going to suggest the same... how is days/weeks on a rolling, pitching boat somehow better than a few hours sedated on a relatively smooth plane?

Consider a calming collar instead of sedating. It's herbal and not ingested. My wife's company makes on that's a charm hung on the collar. She brought it home for my crazy Jacks. They work. I took them off though. I like my Jacks crazy. I'll PM you a link.

We could use a calming collar for some of the menbers on this board:

Pls forward ordering information to Carl..

For taking a stranger and his dog to the Caribe on my boat, normal charter rates would apply: $500.00 per day.

A calming collar...
I need one for my long haul flights in cattle class.

Maybe I should suggest that my wife's boss start a line with YF insignias. Sounds like there could be a market. Hats, shirts and now calming collars.

the kind that zap ya at the press of a button?

I'd rather use remote control shock collars at times, rather than a calming collar.......LOL

Ed, I think your wife was referring to you.

I can't imagine anyone taking on a stranger and a dog on a transit trip! Crew/ guest relations can be stresses on along trip and having a dog, who may not handle the ride very well isn't going to help

Cargo ships often take passengers in their spare cabins but again don't know if they will take a pet

If you were coming to the US you could cross on the Queen, they have kennels and the price is reasonable. or then drive to Miami and take a shorter flight to the BVI

Dear Ali100,

Please consider contacting CMA-CGM directly, one of the few remaining French-managed fleets of container ships etc. and still more or less operating worldwide and who also offer accomodation for passengers (and why not an elderly dog) on many of their ships?

CMA_CGM or other smaller French companies must have more or less regular and direct "services" to the French territories and dependencies in the Caribbean. And who might be able to transport 1 or several humans together with an old dog at a price to destination.

But if the objective of your post was to somehow "catch a free lift" for 1 person + old dog as "supernumeries" or similar on some superyacht departing the south of France for the Caribbean this autumn, then I believe it's a lost cause. Even if you could "work your way" as an unpaid but qualified watch-keeper etc., the dog would still have to **** on the expensive teak-decks "somewhere", something that no superyacht Captain that I know of would gladly entertain or accept, even if you cleared up afterwards. So unless you could directly contact the owners (who knows, they may also have dogs as pets at home) and convince them that you're a worthy cause etc...?!

PS. If I didn't have pudicats (category "pets"), smaller than, but debatably more intelligent than your average hound, I'd today be looking forward perhaps to commanding the M/Y TOPAZ as she leaves the German shipyard next spring. When it comes to pets and their owners' decisions as to how they fit into their lives, I have only 1 thing to say: You either live "for and with your pets", adapting your lives "around them", or else do your "own thing" and attempt some form of compromise, usually hopeless as in this case. If the dog is so old that it would suffer being transported suitably via air, then perhaps it is also too old "to start a new life halfway across the globe"...?! So, why do it? You've got 4 choices so far as I can see: 1) Don't move to the Caribbean, stay put (in France?) delaying your departure indefinitely until the dog dies more or less naturally; 2) Take the dog to the vet and accelearate the departure; 3) Find a new home (in France) for the dog, where it will live the last remaining time it has in good company; 4) Leave the dog tied-up somewhere along the road where it might be found rapidly, on the way to the airport just before you catch the flight out to the Caribbean.

PPS. I've probably come across as being overly-critical of both sides. But so far as actual superyacht owners are concerned, I doubt it. The reasons why they own these yachts, generously pay their crews what they earn etc. is precisely why they don't expect to be disturbed by their crews on more or less mundane affairs such as these. If, or when, they do make charitable gestures, perhaps of several US$ tens of thousands or even a few millions, these are made on the basis that they don't have to actually directly address everyone's needs' individually or directly, as it were.

PPPS. I recall reading about a superyacht owner who apparently sent his own yacht to assist in the aftermath of the most recent Haiti earthquake. At the time, I remember that I could not help thinking that if this was truly a serious effort (as opposed to some publicity stunt), that said superyacht owner would have more wisely spent his dollars on chartering a similar-sized (length-wise) cargo vessel in SE USA, loading it up with 100 times the "cargo-capacity" of his own superyacht and then sending this down to Haiti. Even if he was there afterwards on his own superyacht accompanying and/or supervising the delivery...?!

But what do I really know about anything to do with yachting? Even a million virtual monkeys, typing on their virtual keyboards here for just 2 milliseconds could make more sense of things than I ever could in a million light years...?! And why I always have and invariably continue to bow my head to my erstwhile peers on these forums.