Do charter companies verify your sailing resume?

Yes, charter companies verify your sailing resume before handing over a bareboat. A sailing resume lists the boats you have skippered, including size, type, cruising grounds, and how recently, and the base reviews it when the booking is confirmed, not at the dock. Thin or dated experience triggers three outcomes. The company can require a checkout sail with a base captain. It can place a skipper aboard for the first day, at the charterer’s expense. Or it can decline the bareboat and convert the booking to a captained one. No license is required in the BVI or most of the Caribbean; documented experience is the only currency. Overstating it backfires fast. A charter broker can match a thin resume to the right boat, or arrange the captain up front.