Paul Terceira: I think everybody’s looking for something special at some point in time whether it’s something that they can afford to do all the time or whether it something that they can do just on the occasion. It’s a great vessel and a lot of fun and we’ve never had a bad time.
It depends on what you want to do. If you want to go and have dinner, if you want to go exploring, we’ve got a great tender, we can get in and out of our little tiny base as well, so we’re very versatile.
And having looked at the island as well, you can talk to friends the other day. They get to see homes that you just don’t see from land. You can go along and see the architecture you see, old and new and get to look at the island from another perspective, makes it a much larger place, very exciting.
My family has been here for a couple hundred years and being on the water was natural, learning how to sale, living on a little island every summer with my family and it’s just seem. It’s where I belong and so for me, a day on the water whether I'm working or not is still good, so it’s more of a passion for me. I love what I do.
Emily Chang: Teresa, thank you for having me aboard the Venetian. I feel like Royalty.
Teresa Chatfield: It’s so exciting to have you here.
Emily Chang: Can you tell me a little about the Venetian experience that you’re offering people?
Teresa Chatfield: Venetian is the most luxurious, the most opulent and the most the unique boat on the island. There is nothing else like it. There’s no one else that produces the food, the service, the style and has the décor that this boat has. Well, this room here is special because people tend to have small, intimate dinner parties either for eight but up to 24 in this room and you can set it so there’s a plated meal. People can dine in comfort because of the air conditioning. Moving down below, we have four cabinets. There’s a state room which is sumptuous and the bathroom is to die for. In fact, every time I show whoever in that bathroom, they go, “I wish I had that at home.”
Emily Chang: Yeah.
Teresa Chatfield: Then on the stern of the boat, we have another area where you can dine or where you can sit and relax or tentatively, you can go up to the top of the boat where the captain is driving it and we have cocktail parties. We can have a cocktail party for up to 50 to 55 people comfortably on board. You can have a glass of champagne looking out on the pristine waters of the island. From that perspective, this was a perfect boat for what we want to do.
Emily Chang: Hi. Well cheers everybody.
Male: Cheers.
Emily Chang: To Bermuda. Where do you guys go to have fun in Bermuda? I mean the locals, the real spots?
Richard Madeiros: Nothing is best than the underwater in Bermuda, nothing at all. You can go two miles off the island, get out of your boat, knee deep water and turn around and you can’t see the island. The waters here are amazing.
David Seferiadis: Bermuda is a little beach knob crew but any other beach in the world is just down the hill from here.
Alexandra Mosher: As a local, there’s all sorts of events going on here. We have happy hours, the sunset parties and cocktails in the evening or many other places. It’s a wonderful place to be.
Charles Webbe: I think the best above are the people. You know, the camaraderie that’s established when you meet people here. Look at them they’re beautiful. That’s the best thing about Bermuda. The people love coming here.
Jenia Thompson: We have matches basically when the two ends of the islands get together and they play cricket match so it’s very competitive. People on the island are very either Somerset or St. George’s. There is no in between.
Dale DeLloyd Butler: And people will try and convince you to change teams and there’s also a color and art that takes place at Cupnet can get cold stew, cold chowder, mussel pie or curried goat and people to going there not only to socialize and you would think they would be interested in the cricket match but to play crown and anchor, the gambling part of it and to also enjoy the coloring aspect of the game as well.
Emily Chang: What about dancing? What are your other dance?
Philip Trott: Well, it depends on what type of dancing you’d like to do. If you like to do salsa dance, we have a really big salsa community on the island. Sabor Dance School is one of the biggest and I think they have something on Friday nights at the Veranda Bar. A lot of people come out to that. It’s a great place to go. It’s really different. It gives you just another aspect of Bermuda that just have you know diverse culture.
Richard Madeiros: I’ve been a lot of places in the world, I’d say it’s definitely on my top five. You don’t find anywhere as clean as Bermuda. I mean, you hardly ever see trash in the streets. The beaches are beautiful. You get greeted. You say hello, people say hello back to you. You don’t have to worry about anybody just kind of shrugging you off. Life here is just great.
Alexandra Mosher: I'm a jewelry designer and an entrepreneur and the way that you can sort of be a part of the tourist market, you can capture what the essence of Bermuda and I like to represent the collision of water against rock or the cultures, it’s beautiful.
Charles Webbe: Well, I think it has a lot to do with the origins of Bermuda. It has always been a certain element of style here. I mean, you took the old shorts from the military and we put them into that elegant, Bermuda shorts with the long stockings and left and the jacket and the tie that go with them. So you know, things are done -- I’d like to tell a little upscale.
Philip Trott: Here, I'm going to say that we don’t have you know a lower class on the island. We do. Our lower class is right on the middle class of anywhere else. I'm actually really proud about the type of opportunities that there have been just by growing up here. I'm really proud of my country.
Teresa Chatfield: Cheers everybody, to Bermuda, the Venetian, to fun and life.
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