Tag Archives: Trawler School Charter review

Boat Handling Was Totally Intimidating

2-17-2017.                       2-21-17

Captain Bob,
Location, location, location… Captain Bob’s Trawler school is the location for a trawler education. Hands on training: he leaves you in full control of the Miami Mermaid. This gave us lots of confidence knowing we can navigate on our own!

Very healthy thoughtful delicious meals and excellent coffee that he custom blends
himself.

Just starting off, we cannot think of a better way to achieve a trawler training course. For me, boat handling was totally intimidating. Not now, I’m ready to hoist off and start cruising.

Thank you for trusting us, and so many of your other student’s to handle your trawler.
You are a brave and patient instructor. Hell Yes! we’re ready to make our next move and charter a trawler on our own.

Thank you, thank you, thank you
Delouis W. and Alex K.
Chapel Hill, NC

Trawler Handling & Cruising Lifestyle 101

2-8 — 2-12- 2016

Captain Bob,
We came aboard hoping to learn if we could handle a life aboard a trawler, both the handling of the trawler itself and the lifestyle . We learned a great deal about how to do both. We appreciate your patience and amusing teaching style along with your willingness to share your many years selling 100’s of trawlers experience on buying and owning one.  Keep up the bad fish jokes ha ha. We have a great time and the food was excellent.

Mike & Jane B
Plano,TX

Man Over Board!

Our dearest Cabin Boy Bob

Wow! Thanks to a fantastic voyage, and oh yes, Trawler school. Tons of fun times and memories and trawler knowledge. Being a boat owner we learned more in 3 days than the last 30 years of boating. Great tips, jokes and a splash of Old Spice in the morning with Captain Bob, what a way to start the day. Happy to have introduced you to Radar Scope App now you’ll have the best weather information right on your I pad.

Never will we forget the great meals from the great chef himself. Your own fireworks display on Boca Chita Island, the ghost of Ms Honeywell, all the Dolphins (Miami Dolphins), Manatees and raccoons anchored in Jumbo’s Cut.

MOB (man over board) drill was exciting and yes we did save Wilson (Castaways).

Smooth Seas & light breezes.

James & Sallie S.
Richmond Va

Aka Thurston Howell III & Muffy

Docking in High Wind Conditions

Captain Bob,

Thank you for such a wonderful voyage. You taught us the concepts and safety of running a Trawler. The confidence we gained is now going to allow us to move forward to purchase a trawler, the part you taught us about purchasing a trawler was worth the cost alone. The instructions on docking in high wind conditions and our night maneuvers experience were real confidence builders.

We enjoyed the anchorage at the Marina Stadium overlooking the million dollar view of the Miami Skyline. The food was delicious and the master stateroom wonderful to sleep in. More fish jokes, Please! We loved them all. Amazing tales. Good luck in the future, your friends always.

Monte & Susie Z.
Key Largo Fl

We were Looking for Adventure, and Found It.

Hi Captain Bob

We were looking for a new adventure and found it!

Never been on a live aboard before, but we plan on more trips, perhaps a purchase. We experienced…no stress, hands on learning while seeing all the sights, checking out the new environment and eating good food.

Lots of laugh’s too. We feel prepared to Captain our own trip soon and think we are miles ahead in boat knowledge when we attend Trawler fest tomorrow.

Steve & Kathleen
Big Lake, AK

Sacrifice, Sacrifice, Sacrifice …

Captain Bob

Never a dull moment! Jokes, stories, one-liners. They just kept coming. His instructions were very informative when addressing necessary points. The hands-on training, including blindfolded lessons, was very confidence inspiring.

Bob is a great host, very laid back and easy going. Boca Chita was an amazing stop over. Fantastic Salmon dinner!

We would definitely recommend this course. Remember the 3 famous words Sacrifice, Sacrifice, Sacrifice…

James & Stacy
Moriches, NY

A Vacation with an Education

We have a 24′ deck boat and we are thinking of getting a bigger one, but needed to learn more. We learned so much from Captain Bob!

We feel much more comfortable reading charts and using Captain know it all GPS Chart plotter. Captain Bob’s style of teaching is very informative and entertaining. While we were unlucky with the weather, Captain Bob adjusted his normal schedule to make the best of our trip by going into protected areas. Wow, the trip to Boca Chica was just beautiful, we felt like we were in the Caribbean! The skyline of Miami was incredible. While this was a trip to learn, it turned out to be a vacation with an education. Captain Bob’s course was wonderful, but his friendship was even better.

Ron & Julie
Northfork, VA