Luxurious Accommodations For Up To 10 Guests

Whatever you want to do during your charter, Fantasy Island’s got you covered!  She’s big enough to carry all of the toys today’s savvy charter clients deserve and expect. Compare her equipment to other yachts you may be considering and you’ll find that there is no comparison!

Fantasy Island raises the bar for affordable luxury charters! This exciting new 58' catamaran's sleek lines, high tech construction and ultra-modern interior have earned her the prestigious award of "Best Cruising Catamaran of 2003" from Cruising World Magazine, and she sails just as fast as she looks!

Clever design gives Fantasy Island more useable space than other yachts of her size, allowing her to accommodate up to 10 guests in air-conditioned staterooms with queen- sized beds and vacuum-flush toilets. Four of these cabins are very large and the fifth is smaller but still adequate. Her crew of three occupies two additional cabins with their own head and shower.

Each guest cabin has a flat screen LCD TV and a Sony Playstation2, which enables you to enjoy a library of more than 100 DVD movies, listen to your choice of more than 150 CDs or play video games including Tiger Woods golf and NFL Football. Two cabins can be configured with twin beds by making one half of the (split) mattress eight inches higher than the other half, making Fantasy Island equally suited to couples or families.

The salon is open and spacious and includes the galley with serving counter, a bar and comfortable seating where you can watch a movie on the larger flat-screen TV with Bose sound system, listen to some good music, or just relax in air-conditioned comfort. There’s also full-time Internet access and a phone for your convenience. At night, recessed LED lighting provides a dramatic effect.

Just aft of the salon is the cockpit area with dining tables on both sides. The cockpit has a permanent, carbon-fiber bimini overhead to protect you from the sun, and the entire cockpit area can be enclosed in the event of rain. The cockpit is at deck level so you don’t need to climb in or out of the cockpit – you just walk through the open aft entry area.

The salon is open and spacious and includes the galley with serving counter, a bar and comfortable seating where you can watch a movie on the larger flat-screen TV with Bose sound system, listen to some good music, or just relax in air-conditioned comfort. There’s also full-time Internet access and a phone for your convenience. At night, recessed LED lighting provides a dramatic effect.

Just aft of the salon is the cockpit area with dining tables on both sides. The cockpit has a permanent, carbon-fiber bimini overhead to protect you from the sun, and the entire cockpit area can be enclosed in the event of rain. The cockpit is at deck level so you don’t need to climb in or out of the cockpit – you just walk through the open aft entry area.

Each hull has wide stern steps leading down to the water for swimming or diving with a fold-down stainless steel ladder, and you can also enter the dinghy easily, thanks to the design of the boarding platform, which is the same height as the dinghy’s inflatable tubes. A fresh-water hot and cold shower is located at each stern platform so that you can rinse after swimming.

Sun lovers particularly enjoy the large bow trampolines and seats built into the bow railing each side. This is a very popular spot both at anchor and under sail. Directional Bose speakers mounted up on the mast can play music for your enjoyment. Due to the massive sails, there’s usually some shade from the sun on one side of the boat or the other when under way.

Fantasy Island has twin engines for reliability under power, two generators to assure you of electricity whenever needed, and a large (70 gallons per hour) water maker to provide an uninterrupted water supply throughout your charter. She points higher into the wind than most monohulled sailboats and sails faster than they do, all without noticeable heel and without the fuss of a conventional sailboat. Her performance never ceases to surprise experienced charter guests (and the other boats as you pass them!)

Fantasy Island 's Crew

Clive Shute and Laila Stjerndrup
captain and crew

Clive and Laila met while sailing in Brazil in 1988, and since then have sailed around the world, managed charter yachts for five years, and have recently completed a two -year voyage to Greenland, Cape Horn, and Antarctica. We are delighted that they have accepted the positions of Captain and Chef aboard Fantasy Island for the coming season.

Clive and Laila have an excellent reputation in the chartering industry: never missed a charter; never late for a charter; lots of repeat guests and many happy brokers. They work as a team to ensure happy guests and happy owners and will be assisted aboard Fantasy Island by a third crewmember.

CAPTAIN CLIVE SHUTE
Clive has sailed all his life, and holds a commercially endorsed British RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate, as well as an Australian Ocean Yachtmaster qualification. Born and educated in England, but with an Australian father, he has spent much of his life "down under". In 1986 he left his career as a mainframe computer engineer to sail around the world.

He managed Holga, a 62 ft luxury charter yacht for several years, sailing her from the Grenadines to the Virgin Islands, with 23 charters a season and many repeat customers. During this time Clive and Laila dramatically improved the standard of the systems and the physical appearance of the yacht. A diver for many years, Clive will have his PADI Dive Instructor rating before joining Fantasy Island, and loves to show his guests the fascinating underwater world of corals, fish, and marine life.

CHEF & FIRST MATE LAILA STJERNDRUP
Laila has worked a professional chef on both private and charter yachts from 40ft to 180ft, and has been MaitreíD and cook in some of Sydney's finer restaurants. She has a Management Certificate in Catering and Hospitality, and her international repertoire delights her guests.

Born and raised in a sailing family in Copenhagen, Denmark, Laila has sailed all her life. She holds a British RYA Offshore Yachtmaster Certificate. In 1987 she left her job as an assistant manager with a security company to sail from Denmark across the Atlantic to Brazil, where she met Clive. Laila holds an Advanced First Aid certificate and she too will have her PADI Dive Instructor rating for the coming season.

EXPERTISE & ABILITIES

Clive

* Experienced, safety-conscious captain
* Outstanding social & interpersonal skills
* 90,000 miles sailed, in all latitudes
* Extensive knowledge of the Caribbean
* Meticulous approach to maintenance
* Languages: English & French

Laila

* Professional cook/caterer
* Creative chef with international flair
* Highly organized and dedicated
* 85,000 miles sailed, in all latitudes
* Languages: English, Danish. Some Spanish, French & German

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Equipment & Toys

Rigid inflatable w/ 70 HP
Guest Dinghy w 4HP
Water skis
Tube - wakeboard
Snorkel Equipment
Fishing Gear (4 rods)
Hammock
2 Kayaks
Windsurfer w/2 sails
2 Floating Sun Bed
Beach Games
Stereo CD system
Flatscreen TV/ DVD and Library
5 Playstation II's
Water maker - Ice Maker
Full time air conditioned

Divemaster, 10 sets of gear onboard
$30/pp/ dive for Certified Divers, Resort Course inquire?