A Private Nautical Couples Retreat -
Your Own 5-Day Safe Passage Odyssey
Put Your Marriage Back On Course
Your Safe Passage couples retreat will place both of you in a beautiful natural environment that will be optimal for encouraging you to see things from a fresh perspective. The cruise will involve work on your relationship difficulties with expert coaching by Bryce and Helen Kaye together as a team. There will also be alot to enjoy. You will see all sorts of interesting vessels on the open water, passing you on their voyages from far away places. Part of your couples retreat will be spent exploring the quaint historical towns at which we dock. Some of the bed and breakfast inns date back well into the 1800’s. The local restaurants serve fresh seafood and are excellent. Each town has its own colorful history and you will enjoy exploring it together. For more information about each destination, take a virtual tour on its own home page: Ocracoke, New Bern, Beaufort, Cape Lookout.
Your crew: Bryce & Helen Kaye
Dr. Bryce Kaye is a psychologist, a marriage therapist with 30+ years of professional experience and author of the book The Marriage First Aid Kit. He and his wife Helen will meet with you for two to four hours for intensive relationship counseling at various times in each day for a total of 14 hours over the course of the couples retreat cruise. They will assess where your relationship is out of balance and will teach you how to replace subtle patterns of destructive behavior with affection-growing behavior. To read about the therapeutic dimension of this private intensive relationship counseling cruise, click on “The Safe Passage Strategy.” Extensive information about Dr. Kaye’s approach to counseling couples can also be found on his other website www.marriagefirstaid.com .
Click here to read about the Safe Passage strategy for a private couples retreat cruise
Dr. Kaye explains some little-known relationship truths.
Sunset at Ocracoke
Primary and Alternate Routes
Because weather safety is such a controlling factor, no one route can be guaranteed in advance. There is a primary route for this couples retreat odyssey that is preferred but adverse weather may force the captain to plot an alternate route in its place. The routes are as follows:
Primary Route For The 5-Day Couples Retreat Odyssey
Day 1 - Orientation in Oriental, sail to Ocracoke (8 hrs), lunch on board, a 2 hour private intensive relationship counseling session
Day 2 - Docked in Ocracoke, a 2 hour AM private counselilng session and a 2 hour PM private counseling session
Day 3 - Sail to Oriental (8 hrs), lunch on board, a 2 hour AM private counseling session
Day 4 - Sail to New Bern (4 hours), lunch on board, a 2 hour AM private counseling session
Day 5 - Sail to Oriental (4 hours), lunch on board, a 2 hour AM private intensive relationship counseling session amd a 2 hour PM private counseling session
Alternate Route A: (primary route reversed)
Day 1 - Orientation in Oriental, sail to New Bern (4 hours), lunch on board, a 2 hour AM private counseling session
Day 2 – Sail to Oriental (4 hours), lunch on board, a 2 hour AM private counseling session and a 2 hour PM private counseling session
Day 3 - Sail to Ocracoke (8 hrs), lunch on board, a 2 hour private counseling session
Day 4 - Docked in Ocracoke, a 2 hour AM private intensive relationship counseling session and a 2 hour PM private relationship counseling session, enjoy the town
Day 3 - Sail to Oriental (8 hrs), lunch on board, a 2 hour AM privatre intensive relationship counseling session
Alternate Route B For The 5-Day Couples Retreat Odyssey:
Same as Alternate Route A but with a trip to Beaufort instead of New Bern
Alternate Route C For The 5-Day Couples Retreat Odyssey:
Similar to Primary Route but with Beaufort substituted for Ocracoke and 1 day layover in Beaufort
Weather Safety Policy
Any responsible mariner knows that safety of passengers and vessel is the highest priority. All preferred routes and destinations for this couples retreat cruise will be evaluated for safety by the captain before departure. At his sole discretion, the captain may determine that a route or destination change may be warranted due to projected weather or sea conditions. There may be some days when the captain might even determine that the weather is projected to be too hazardous to leave port. This is the inherent uncertainty when traveling so close to nature.
If a preferred route is revised by the captain, your preference for an alternate route will be given high priority consideration.
