Nekton Pilot gone from Belize now

[robint]

looks like from their schedule: Scheduled Departures
they are gone permanently now. It shows both boats, Pilot and Rorqual, being in St. Croix for the late fall/winter/early spring season.

I know they had been saying off and on for the past few years that they were pulling out of Belize, but since then they have also said they were staying for now. I am very dissapointed as we were looking at doing this trip in the next year... Anybody heard anything else about this change??

robin

 

[Jchoby]

Oh man, I was planning on doing that one again. It was a good trip....

 

[Damselfish]

I'd only heard they were leaving Belize, never that they were undecided (not that that means anything.) It's never been shown on any of the upcoming years schedules when I looked.

 

[peterbj7]

Do we know why?

 

[robint]

I'd only heard they were leaving Belize, never that they were undecided (not that that means anything.) It's never been shown on any of the upcoming years schedules when I looked.

it was still on the schedule for this year starting in Nov - Mar09. After that it was off.
I had just talked to Karen in May and she didn't say they were thinking of pulling out. In fact, I discussed with her possibly booking for Nov timeframe and to see which weeks were full. She told me Thanksgiving week was full already but other weeks had plenty of openings. I guess they decided after that to cancel Belize completely.
She did tell that Caymans are on the schedule for 2009 but no decision made for sure IF they were going back there or not and that they aren't taking any bookings for it right now for that reason. So it sounds to me that they aren't sure where the boats are going to be in the future.

 

[Damselfish]

ah, guess I never checked at the right time. Thought I asked about it when I was looking into it a few months ago. I could have been narced.

 

[robint]

we have our answer now, DocV called:
Belize and the Nexton Pilot

looks like the only liveaboards in Belize now are Aggressor and Peter Hughes, and with that company merger I doubt they will keep both boats there.

 

[Damselfish]

merger?

googled and I found one mention of a rumor of a merger.

 

[RonFrank]

The price of fuel is screwing around with everything. I'm not certain, but I'm betting Belize got axed because of something to do with fuel!

Times, they are.. a changing! :11:

 

[robint]

merger?

googled and I found one mention of a rumor of a merger.

I was told about a month ago that Aggressor had bought PH and deal was final, just working out details now. What that means, I have no idea.