Pearl has messed up my sailing vacations

[Oilnlotion]

Our vacations over the last 10 years have been filled with fantastic sailing adventures around the world.
A few months ago I was goofing around on the internet and stumbled across the Desire Resorts. As a semi-joke I went to my wife and told her I booked us at Pearl. When she looked at it and read what it was about, she thought that might be fun. I immediately cancelled the Sailing trip we had planned and booked 4 days (that’s the most consecutive days we could find) at Pearl.
As we got into the planning, clothes shopping and reading the forums for ideas, we decided to see if we could piece together a few more days—naively thinking that it would be easy. However, we lucked into finding 3 more days.
As we counted down the days, we had some fun with the idea of what we were about to head in to.
We are not in the life style, nor do we have plans to participate in the LS—not that there’s any wrong with that, it’s just not part of what we want for our relationship.
We had multiple discussions about comfort-levels, activities we would be comfortable with, and getting outside of our comfort zones and pushing our boundaries. All great discussions.
When we arrived at Pearl I believe the reality of facing our comfort levels was a little more difficult than we had expected, so we needed to regroup and approach things with a slower pace. The first day was a little more than we were prepared for; the second day our comfort level was doing great, and the rest of our days at Pearl were—as advertised—a fantastic experience for us.

The tough part: we have now cancelled another sailing trip and are booked back at Pearl this winter!!!

[eddieandjojo]

Welcome to the Desire addiction!!!

[TandD]

I know what you mean! For us, our sailing charter in/on St. Martin got us going to Desire. My wife got topless and micro on the boat anchored in the tropics and trips to Desire followed that.

I've always fantasized of a "Desire friends" charter. We aren't LS either (but we have stepped into the fuzzy boundary a few times...) and a big cat with Desire free spirits could be a lot of fun!

[tj71903]

It’s definitely addicting.

Hard to find couples to travel with though.

[eddieandjojo]

I've always fantasized of a "Desire friends" charter.

Find the right group and it's a blast!! We have developed a core group over the past number of years, we all get along, contribute equally and have an amazing time together at least twice a year outside of Desire.

[ninaandfrank]

Frank:
Nina is an avid sailor. She actually has won championship regattas in blind sailing. We know that Desire can arrange for a full day catamaran sail. However I think it requires 4 couples. Since this will be our first go-around we don't have a cirlce of friends to do it with. It must be a great experience. Uselss trivia ... Nina and I fell in love on a catamaran in the Caribbean 18 years ago.

[d&lcok]

My wife and I are both avid sailers (competitive around the country for years, but now just bareboat charters for fun around the world). Our love of Desire has also greatly decreased time for sailing trips, but we, too, think a naked catamaran charter somewhere in the Caribbean or Europe would be awesome! We did a Bahamas trip this summer with a group of vanilla friends, and had a blast, but the whole time we were thinking how fun it'd be to spend the days naked with some likeminded friends. Definitely something we're going to try to set up somewhere down the road. Just need to find 3 other couples who are into sailing and into no tan lines!!!! ;-)

[Bruce&Pam]

I call it "Vacation Crack". Once you do it, you never want to do anything else.

---Bruce