Travel Tuesdays with Motor Yacht Rena

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Book your Custom Covid Compliant Vacation. Welcome to Travel Tuesdays where we speak with dashing Yacht Captains aboard some of the most lavish chartered yachts in the world. * Chartering during COVID * HOT tips * Compelling Compliments * Secret Secluded Destinations & so much more….

“Feels like your at home with seasoned crew. Happy Crew. Happy guests.” says co-host and President Jennifer Saia aka @YachtQueen of B&B Yacht Charters, Inc.

In this segment meet Captain Brad Baker of Motor Yacht Rena

Video Edit Credits: @0ri.evans

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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles

and Travel Tuesdays

brought to you by

B&B Yacht Charters, Inc.

with President and co-host

Jennifer Saia aka @YachtQueen

That’s me! Hi everybody!

Today we have Captain Brad Baker of Motor Yacht Rena

An incredible program that we have been doing for many many years together

Captain Brad, why don’t you tell us a little bit about your vessel.

Well okay, she’s an NQEA built in Cairns, Australia, which is my hometown for many years.

She just turned 30 years old.

She’s a Leeuwin class. We just did our 30 year survey last year.

She has just come out of the shipyard with a lot of love.

She has five state rooms

10 guests,  we can accommodate more guests if needed, with pullmans, without her sinking.

She comes with a toe tender 38 foot ripper that we love to use. We call it the Limo

Tender, jet ski’s, stand-up paddles, kayaks

All things that you could want for a charter vacation in the Bahamas

Sounds like an amazing fun wealth of activities to do.

Where your favorite places to travel?

We do love the Bahamas especially for chartering. Bahamas, Virgin Islands, Maine

We like a different type of experience.

Very pleasurable, very scenic.

That sounds fun and

Jennifer tells me that you guys put up an amazing beach picnic!

Yes! we do, we cater that to wherever we are.

I got my secret beach in the Bahamas which I will not divulge

Come on give me the Lat/Long (Latitude/Longitude)

It’s a hell of a day for the guests. It’s special.

We cater lunch to the local seafood and keep the local cuisine in mind

Make it fun for everybody.

yeah and you can customize the lunches with a pig roast and other things

Depends on the island and where we are

We try to source the local product and stick with the local fare if we can.

Or go catch it yourself please

Yes! hahaha

We have a wonderful barbecue on the top deck and

we’ve got more than one crew member on board who is a master at grilling.

We like barbecuing. I won’t say that I am good at it!

But anyway, I have people for that! and we like to make it part of the experience.

Speaking of crew, how many crew are you?

We are 8 crew, more than enough!

It looks beautiful and quite elegant.

I call it Nantucket chic!

I’s kind of a New England sort of flair interior and

the owners are from that area and it reflects their taste and style.

It’s such a more traditional style.

We keep the furnishings refreshed on classic feel and style.

Everyone’s keeping healthy and busy.

We are all good and ready to go for the summer.

Jennifer, you are in Florida right now

How would you describe the boat and the crew?

I’m going to be having lunch in a few minutes with everybody,

so then I’ll have a real good description!

But just being back on board after not seeing them for so long

oh my gosh like a year.

I feel like I’m at home

The owners treat the crew like family and we love working for them.

We get to know guests as good as we can

while maintaining our professionalism.

It’s always a fun relaxed atmosphere on the boat and part of cruising a charter.

How long have you been on the boat?

I’ve been about 5 1/2 years

I have heard that charters are all about the crew!

Happy Crew! Happy Guests!

We’ve got nearly a hundred years of experience between the four senior crew on board in yachting.

I was thinking about that the other day,

Not sure if that makes me feel old or experienced.

Seasoned!

But it’s a fact!

Seasoned! There ya go!

You have a history of hospitality

with two Atlantic crossings, two Pacific crossings

and cruising remote locations such as Palau, Micronesia and Hawaii.

How have your extensive travels changed your perspective as a yacht captain for your guests?

I started out chartering with Texas sports fishermen on the Barrier Reef in Cairns

some of the most fun, interesting people that I ever met.

Very very laid back program

Had to evolved from that to the Mediterranean high end charters

with people such as royalty, astronauts, rock stars and such.

What makes a good crew?

I would say experience and energy! The two number one factors!

Experience, you know, only comes with time on boarding in the industry and

learning how to service these 5 and 6 star services that we are offering

It only comes with experience

We traditionally range between 5- 10 day charters.

Our longest was 14 days.

7 -10 day charters work well for us.

Some of our highlights would be Nassau, Harbor Island, the Exuma’s.

Also the Exuma keys, we’d like to take the toys off through the shallow waters

and we like to kayak up creeks and streams and I have got all sorts of hikes figured out

and you’ll be chartering there from November to April

This November through Christmas/ New year, we will be available through Easter

Sounds like you guys have a lot of repeat guests.

What was the best compliment that you’ve received ?

Probably when a primary charter guests guests wife says,

“Can I take you and the crew home with me?”

“You guys are so wonderful, we want to keep you.”

What is the #1 hot tip for your guests?

For the Bahamas: pack lightly.

You don’t need all of that stuff.

Once you leave the lights of Atlantis and the slot machines

It will be just us, and the fish, and the birds, and the iguanas and the palm trees.

That is all you need.

And let captain Brad, who’s an amazing photographer, follow you and your guests around.

because his work is magnificent, just magnificent.

At the end of the charter, the last night, you gather everybody together and

you compose this beautiful video of all the photos and

they can relive their vacation right then and there.

Then they take it with them and

it’s like, Oh my gosh, wow!”

That’s a tradition we do on the last night.

It keeps me up late during the charter, I put all together.

On the last night we bring all crew and guests into the salon together.

We have a little party and a presentation.

I know you’re down in Florida so stay safe, I know you will.

We will.

If you are looking for a self quarantined,

covid compliant,

custom vacation,

call Jennifer Saia at

B&B Yacht Charters, Inc

Thank you Christon!

Thank you Christon

We look forward to seeing you soon

Thank you

and we look forward to seeing you on

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Newport Music Festival Event in Newport RI

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Newport Music Festival started in 1969 and has grown to a month long expose with renowned artists performing at highly notable establishments throughout Newport and Rhode Island including The Chinese Tea House, The Breakers, The Elms, Ochre Point (which is now air conditioned), Blithewold Mansion, Bellevue House, Newport Arts Museum, The Casino Theatre, The Bohlin, Castle Hill, Newport Country Club & Aldrich Mansion in Warwick. Acclaimed opera singer, visionary and Executive Director Pamela Pantos speaks to the upcoming performances, artists & venues. There is music for all ages, price ranges and genres; including complimentary community performances.

Visit www.NewportMusic.org to partake in the schedule of events and participate as a sponsor

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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles I’m Christon and joining us today isPamela Pantos from the Newport Music Festival. This started back in 1969and has now proliferated into a whole month-long of wonderfulextravaganzas. Yes. Tell us more about that. So you’re right, it’s a wholemonth, we started with the fourth of July. We did a huge free concert on the lawnat King Park and we have two more free concerts this summer and it goes all theway through July 28th and we have as you said a myriad of all different kinds ofconcerts from classical to jazz and then we even have the swingles comingtomorrow night which is this amazing acapella group from England five-timeGrammy winners Wow coming tomorrow night performing at the breakers and they’redoing all kinds of pop too so it’s it’s everything for everybody yes you have pop, swing, what other different types of music is there?Tomorrow night we have the swingles coming atthis acapella group they’re five-time Grammy nominated pardon me, not nominatedthey are five times Grammy winning! from England and they’ll be heretomorrow night and they’re doing a real myriad they do a little bit of classicalbut a lot of pop they’re even doing Fleetwood Mac oh and a little bit of rock and roll. okay and then onSaturday night we have two concerts one of which is completely sold out which isItalian opera night which is at the breakers however we still have a coupleof tickets left from the Harlem 100 they’re from New York they’re amazingit’s the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance and so if you like authenticjazz it’s at the Bohlin tent and it’s a whole evening so you get a drink whenyou come in valet parking is part of the price and then you get dinner stationsduring intermission plus a whole evening of jazz so it’s really a good time.absolutely, now where are some of the top placesthat everybody’s performing okay well we perform all over the place so certainlythe breakers here at the Elms we have beautiful morning concerts actually nextweek there will be three of them Monday Tuesday and Wednesday we have morningconcerts at the chinese tea house which are also completely sold out we’re doingas i said something at the bohlin we’re performing four times at the light poletent right in bristol and then Monday night we have a wonderfulextravaganza at Castle Hill so all over the place what’s the price ranges for peoplesure so as I mentioned there are free concerts especially next week’s the 16thTuesday at 6 p.m. there’ll be a free concert on the lawn of the Art Museum sothank you to the Art Museum for that and we’ll be doing carnival of animals so ifyou have kids bring a blanket and come at 6 o’clock we’ll have about 20 piecesright on the lawn and you’ll be able to hear this great piece it’s also narratedin addition to that we perform at the breakers almost every night as well as Isaid here at the Elms and lots of other things going on all over the place and agala a gala oh my gosh July 28th and I almost forgotso before we get to July 28th we have July 27 ok so this year we’re going back tothe casino theater which is a great space it’s air-conditioned and we arebringing in a New York dance troupe so the evening will be dance and music soour musicians but you won’t know when our musicians are just playing and whenit’s gonna start being danced and there’s smoke and all kinds of effectsso that’s a really great theater evening if you if you have anybody who lovesdance that’s a great evening moving music on the 27th at the casino theaterand the gala at the 28th at Ochre Court. I almost forgot that we perform theretoo so this Sunday next Sunday and the 28th we have concerts there and the 28this our gala that features metropolitan opera singer Nathan Gunn absolutelyincredible and his wife Julie Dunn who’s a concert pianistit’s gonna be a wonderful evening. You have a concert built into the eveningcatering guy Russell Morin it’s just gonna be a great evening and now they’veair-conditioned Ochre court as well so you can stay cool all night in your gownIf people would like to help you sponsor or just be involved somehow howcan they find you so they can go to the website which is NewportMusic.org youcan call the office at 401-846-1133 and just ask for Pamela andif you want to leave me a message my staff would be happy to talk to you.Easily Accessible. Thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you on Newport Living and Lifestyles