Dream to Sail. .. Live Your Dream

Tropical memories that will last a lifetime

We specialize in making your vacation a memorable and magical experience.
We tailor our venue to your desires and expectations.

Sail either around specific islands or from one to the next. Take a look to see the vacation possibilities available just for you on Fidelity.

The main salon seats six easily and eight in a pinch. The area is roomy with easy access immediately to the cockpit via a healing-compensated companionway ladder.

Two cabins aft of smaller dimensions, also each with separate heads and integrated shower.

The queen-sized master bed is comfortable with extra airiness provided with a full-width mirror at the head. It features awalk-around island queen, plenty of stowage and dedicated head and attached shower stall.

At slightly over 46 feet, she is small enough to be personable, large enough for comfort.
Stable and seaworthy under all kinds of sea and wind conditions.

Fidelity 's Crew

Owen and Mary Jones
captain and crew

Owen and Mary were quite ordinary people before deciding to live their dream...he a university professor and she an employment manager at the same place of higher education. They had been together and married for twenty-five years, were comfortable first at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, then retired and traveling quite a bit in both the Caribbean and Mexico. Sailing had always been a part of their lives. Mary and Owen had always had an underlying desire of a more extensive sea life and people interaction that a chartering business would bring. Capt. Owen Jones is a life-long sailor. He was brought up sailing on the coastal waters between New York City and the Penobscot Bay in Maine. He has sailed everything in size from 6-ft prams and 8-ft Dyer Dhows to 45-ft sloops and catamarans on the Atlantic coastal waters from New York to Maine, n the coastal Adriatic and offshore from the Caribbean to New England and from France to the Canary Islands.

In 1978, while at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Owen purchased a Rhodes 25, the Moonrise. He enjoyed sailing her with his sons in waters from Oyster Bay to Nantucket, following some of the paths he had sailed in his childhood.

In 1981, Dr. Jones went into academia, he and Mary moving back to the Troy area to join the Nuclear Engineering Department at his alma mater, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. They took the moonrise with them and began their inland sailing years on Lake Champlain.

During his seventeen years at Rensselaer he extended his research career into areas of ultra-compact, high power nuclear space propulsion, nonequilibrium phase change in water-cooled nuclear reactors, and electromagnetic imaging of gas-liquid flowing systems. During this same period, Mary was first departmental secretary for the Nuclear Engineering Department, then part of the Human Resources team and Employment Manager. She retired in 1987 to be with him on a one-year sabbatical in Japan.

It was during these years at RPI that both Mary and Owen obtained their NAUI SCUBA-diving certifications and their private pilot licenses. They dove extensively in many locations including the west coast of United States and Mexico, Hawaii and the Caribbean. Owen went on to obtain both his aircraft instrument rating and recently his commercial pilot's license.

Finding their love of sailing enhanced by the kind, clear waters of Lake Champlain, they reluctantly parted with the Moonrise and purchased Whisper, a Cal-35 marvelously suited to to gunkholing in the 135 mile long stretch of the lake. Sailing in the summer, skiing in the winter was a wonderful life.

Then the knees gave out. Skiing was over and their love of cold weather began to wane. They began to seek warmer climes in winter months including both the Caribbean and Mexico. They purchasing the Fidelity, delivered to the Virgin Islands in February of 2000 and began sailing the island chain in earnest.

They sailed her extensively in the British, U.S. and Spanish Virgin Islands as well as down island through St. Maarten, Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and on to Venezuela. Their web site puts Owen’s photographic hobby, to good use. http://sailfidelity.com, suggesting vacation possibilities is a picturesque travelogue of their Caribbean sailing history covering virtually all Islands from The Virgin Islands to Grenada. Of course Mary, as a chef extraordinaire, delights in tickling Owen’s palette and those of their guests on S/V Fidelity.

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Equipment & Toys

12/ Rigid Inflatable w/10 HP
Snorkel Equipment
Two-Man Kayak
Swim Platform
Flat Panel TV w/ DVD Player
Cd Player And Library
Fun Floats- Noodles.
Stern Swim Platform

Rendezvous Only