St Vincent Express

To provide a fast reliable cost effective daily return service from Union island to Mainland St Vincent with stops at Mayreau Canouan and Bequia.

St Vincent has a population of over 100 000. Bequia pop 5000. Canouan 1700. Mayreau 200. Union 3000.

There is currently no daily return sevice availble to the southern Grenadines.

At full capacity, the vessel will gross monthly income close to $950 000 US per year.

The concept has been under way since 2017. We have built up relationships with the St Vincent government allowing consession on duty free fuel and import duties on tools, materials and equipment to build the ferry on Union island. We have a good working relationship with the St Vincent Marine Administration the governing body responsible for safety and coding for comercial vessels in St Vincent and the Grenadines. We have secured with workshop proposal, a building site for the project and some of the building crew. The ferry is prefabricated in Australia and the kit will be shipped in two containers. Pricing for shipping has been quoted. The kit includes precut hull components ready for assembly and includes windows doors and seats. It will be powered by twin 530 hp marine diesels which will be exported from the states. The preliminary design is complete with seating arrangement, luggage capacity bar and viewing deck. Engine capacity, fuel consumption and cruising speeds are determined.

We are a husband and wife team and been in the passenger / charter business for 30 years. Our current charter vessel, US coastguard inspected 30 passenger schooner is a great success and build by us at our boat building facility in Camden Maine. It has provided steady income for our family since its launch in 2003.

18m SF NB GCSA.pdf (application/pdf) 3455K

Aerial view of our current charter vessel: IMG_7057.PNG (image/png) 890K