St. Croix Sailing

Jones Maritime Co.

ones Maritime Company features a quaint 15 slip marina, sailing school, yacht management service and charter operation.

The Virgin Islands are the ideal location to learn to sail. Christiansted harbor and the waters surrounding St. Croix add to the ease of the beginning experience with steady winds and calm seas, while the offshore trips offer a challenging new experience as well as great anchorages and beautiful scenery. Our instructors are all offshore cruising sailors with experiences ranging from Atlantic crossings, passages to and from the US mainland, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. This combined with their excellent local knowledge of the waters will make your sailing trip unforgettable!!!! Sunset sails, special trips and private bookings are available.

Details

   1215 King Cross, Christiansted
   340-773-4709
   Jones Maritime Co. Web Site

Reviews

Rated by ughmo2000 on 02/03/04
The Boss and I left for St. Croix Nov. 11. It was iffy as ATA had an engine cowling
fall of their plane causing a delay but we finally made it! (It's not an adventure if
everything goes right but I don't even want to talk about the flight home!)

Upon our arrival we were met by Rob and Kim Jones of Jone's Maritime. Fantastic
people!

They talked with us a bit then led us to our home for the week, a beautiful 50'
Gulfstar CC ketch to freshen up and get our gear stored. After a day of play with,
"No worries" Matthew, known around the island as "Chew" (you'll have to ask for
yourself) and full provisioning by Kim, we headed off with Capt. Rob for the
crossing to St. John during the tail end of the worst rains the VI's have had in 113
years. Truly a natural disaster but excellent sailing nontheless.

Capt. Rob was excellent. Entertaining, (an ex-professional musician), funny, a
great cook, (Mexican night is still in my dreams!) somehow knew exactly when to
"dissapear", and shared a tremendous amount of knowledge with us on sailing the
islands, anchorages, beaches, local history, and many other subjects.

We spent our days sailing leisurly laps aroud the islands, catching a ball or
dropping anchor for lunch each day then sailing for several more hours to yet
another great anchorage where we all swam until we were ravenous.

As we were early in the season, our evenings were spent with few other boats.
Evenings found us on deck counting stars and planning our next trip with Jone's
Maritime! Oh yeah! We'll definitly be visiting the Jones' again!

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