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My family and I have been chartering with Cooper Boating for years. The staff is always friendly and professional and the boats have always been in fantastic condition. I highly recommend this company for anyone considering chartering in the area. We started with sailing lessons on the smaller boats and gradually worked our way up to the larger boats, all while being shepherded along by their helpful staff.

Amazing mechanic, Joel. Great service. They got us in right away, found the problem and fixed it. Highly recommend them!!

Very good operation for service and boat monitoring

When you unknowingly park in their park I g spot your tires get slashed. Obviously great members of the community.

Let me inform you of the truth. This is Larry Meyer and I make a promise to my yacht owners that i will never let their yachts leave dock on charter without being satisfied that the skipper is competent, will not place their yacht at risk of damage. You are required to present your first day's route plan on a chart or iPad, tell me what winds you wind experience on the route and the tides and currents. I make no excuse for being direct, show me you have the skill and the orientation will be short and sweet. Kurt started by indicating that he was in Tsehum habour and not Port Sidney, so he did not take the time to know where he was, drew a straight line across to Bedwell over Dock island. That never goes down well and i told him to take his time and do a planned route and returned after an hour. This time he started by going in between to red markers and could not work out what was wrong. That's when I asked my instructor Bill Boyce to step in and evaluate if Kurt could recover. Bill took his time and eventually got Kurt to realize that he was unable to plan with lots of time and that this mandated that we could not allow him to do route planning while he was skipper. Bill planned the full week's route and I reluctantly allowed Kurt to continue his charter. Kurt, your skills are simply not up to standard to be in control of a yacht with crew that you should take care of. Try building your skills so that you know which throttle to use to rotate a catamaran. Staying at anchor because you lack the skill to handle the yacht in close quarters is not our standard. You are not welcome back to our fleet. My owners can concur. DAVID HENDERSON Here is the truth. David thought he ordered a washer dryer with his Leopard 44 in Feb 2015. Well he did not and i will attach his options sheet he approved. When he got to the yacht in Cape Town re ranted about this and I and Leopard catamarans did our best to have one fitted but there was no stock and he would not wait for a unit to arrive from Europe. i went out and shopped on my credit card for all the supplies for his yacht to do an Atlantic crossing with, that's when David refused to pay for the goods, told me i was cheating him when I charged him at cost. He priced each item on the net and i had overcharged him. I then discounted my at cost price to get resolution, still he refused to pay. That's when I logged a small claims suit and after a year, David finally paid after he never arrived to defend the case. I would let you know that David's behaviour in Cape Town was disgusting, the things he got up to are not what a President of a business should ever do. Nothing low class was out of the question. I never expected to stoop so low while entertaining clients. I never expected to be dealing with a cheat, after all i had handled close to CAD1M of his money during the purchase. Ask my boat owners if they ever felt at risk. I spent $12k on my card for his boat and it took 18 months to get refunded. Guess who the cheat is See image of his options sheet which does not even have a washer dryer offered under plumbing. We never agreed to install it as part of his purchase. We run an organisation that respects our clients but mostly delivered on the promise to our boat owners. If you cannot respect our owners wishes, no problem, there are other charter outfits, feel free to take your business there. Take a look at our fleet, ask our owners for a reference, ask many of our clients for a reference. Ask our insurance company about our history. But don't believe all the reviews as many times its only those people that are trouble that take the effort to write a review.

If you are looking for a marina where you are genuinely welcomed, where you have a truly friendly and helpful administrative and maintenance staff and you want to feel "at home", then VAN ISLE MARINA IS IT. !

Wonderful staff, very helpful