Onward & Upward Events Blog

CAPTAIN SANDY'S CHARITIES

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:01:03 GMT

Prana Maya Island in Belize

Kick off and blasted off the New Year in Belize at a secret retreat Prana Maya. Such an Aura and a cortex that draws you in and replenishes your well being. Soaked in some loca culture in Placencia, met infleuncer Ben Greenfield and his family. While there visited Francis Ford Coppala's The Green Turtle Inn- a 5 Star Gilligan's Island! Prana Maya is a wonderful host for incentives and corporate retreats and Onward & Upward Events can take you there!

Planned a Marine Industry Association Event with Captain Sandy from "Below Deck" to help educate all the the Marine Industry contributes to the economy, it is a meca in the community of South Florida. Captain Sandy is a huge supporter of the Marine Indusrty and has her own license plate- Florida the Boating Capital of the World. All the proceeds of the license plate will fund captain Sandy's Charities, a non-profit that helps educate grammer school students on up on how to enter into the marine industry. You can suppor Captain Sandy by going here- https://captainsandyscharities.org/support/

2025 a Glance

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:22:00 GMT

Blessed & making people happy!

We have had incrdible success and we attribute it all to the Lord. 14 events in December alone, with a wedding, sunset charters, and 5 huge holiday affairs.

Toured the new MSC World Cruise Ship, she was docked next to the Icon of the Seas RCL and just as ginormous!

We supported:

The Stuart Women's Club Holiday Home Tour

4 C's Cookie Cook Off

Helping People Succeed- Pinot & Picasso

and...

our beloved Marine Industry of the Treasure Coast!

3/4 through 2025

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:00:59 GMT

Not too ornate, right....

We have been so busy, thankful and looking up every chance we get!

Started Summer at the fabulous new 5 Star Conrad, Bridal Shows and Wedding Vows aboard Onward & Upward, 2 large Conference Executions in the Carolina's.

Supported our beloved Marine Industry Association of the Treasure Coast with 4 events for Members, 2 more to go!

Hosted 3 dozen charters to to admire the beautiful sunsets and we still have 3 months to go, WOW!

Stay tuned for our end of year wrap up... with love, Onward & Upward Events and Cruise xoxo

Nailing in it 2025!

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:06:08 GMT

Loving Every Minute!

We began the new year with a dance party at The Pearl with the Stuart Women’s Club!

Our beloved co-founder Amy plans the monthly 5 ‘o clock Somewhere for the GWCS.

Our National Conferences have been keeping us busy in between our Sunset, Birthday, Anniversary, Weddings, and Just Because Yacht Charters.

We supported Marine Indusrty of the Treasure Coast Boat Show, Pan Am’s Wings of Hope, Dogs for Life, Miranda Strong Celebrity Chef, Care. Net, Martin Arts Rhapsody in Blue. Lori'a Ark, Retrirement of Sheriff William Snyder and the ARC of Martin County.

Oh and the Woman’s Conference for "We are Beyond"at the newly renovated Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale was a high on the list!

Smashing 4th Q

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:20:02 GMT

Sagamore in Lake George

Incredulous that we keep on growing and we added 3 more new staff this year. We like to give a huge warm welcome to Janelle Thomas, Senior Events Director,

Kristen Young, Events Assistant and First Mate, and Captain Ryan Mooneyhan.

As always we supported the community as a sponsor for the following events:

Stuart Woman's Club Holiday Home Tour

Festival of Giving Chamber Breakfast and Pajama Party

Marine Industry of the Treasure Coast Christmas Boat Parade

Furry Friends Volunteer Charter

Pictured we are featuring some of our favorite properties for conferences - Intercontinental in Shanghai, China and the Sagamore in Lake George, New York.

We already have so many exciting new things planned and underway for 2025 and Onward & Upward Events and Crusies thanks you for the support!

Summer was full of beautiful colors of the Sunset & Conference Success!

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:34:42 GMT

So Pretty in Pink

Summer Highlights

Big news- Onward & Upward Events and Cruises Co-Founder and CEO, Amy Snodgrass is on the board for the Marine Industry of the Treasure Coast

As always, we were out supporting nonprofits:

Kicked off summer with Volunteers in Medicine Golf For Life that raised 160k

4 C’s Caring for Children Derby Watch

Elev8hope Sunset Cruise Winner with Roz

Project Lift winner Jen celebrating a work promotion for Tracy

Ending with a bang for the biggest fishing tournament in Martin County- The Bonita Blast for beloved Wounded Veterans Relief Fund

Conference/Events Recap:

Uplifting inspirational seminar with Sean McDowell

Carolina’s Legal Investigators hit a home run in Myrtle Beach, again

Intimate & super lovely Wedding on the Beach in the Keys with Carrie & Luke and we were hosted at Opal Resort it was truly grand- a must for a wedding or conference

Ashes at Sea for a notable Author & his Wife

Mother’s Day for Margo Sailfish Catch Aboard Onward & Upward

Father’s Day Cruise with all our special loved ones to honor Captain Phil

Corporate Planning Worldwide

Fri, 03 May 2024 20:28:51 GMT

Italy or South Caicos, a Mountain in Virginia or Private Golf Resort

Onward & Upward has had a busy 1 ^st Q crusin’ the waterways on sunset for that special occasion offering you pure luxury aboard our yacht.

We are supporting our community and favorite local charities:

Greater Woman’s Club of Stuart Fashion Show and White Party

Stuart Martin LEADERship Alumni

Furry Friends with Kimberly Guilfoyle

Conservation of our Shores

Traveling:

Milan for a site for an AI Company Conference

Islamorada to check out a new property

South Caicos to a 5 Star Island FAM Experience

We are looking forward to a jam packed 2 ^nd Q, hope to see you aboard or on the road!

Farewell 2023, here we go 2024

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:43:01 GMT

Incentive Conferences

We are excited to add on some services that we have been invloved with for nearly 30 years making it more official by adding these services soon onto our website. As always, we will still be offering luxury yacht charters!

Our goals in 2024 are to bring more businesses into our beloved Martin County, Florida and to offer our cleints incentive luxury conference planning worldwide!

Our fealess leader, Amy Cimber- Snograss was a featuted premier conference planner at the SE Conference for We are Beyond in Charleston, SC.
This year we will still be supporting the Salavation Army serving on the Advisory Board.
We are on the Events Committee for the Stuart Boat Parade.
Now serving on the Girlfriends Committee for the Greater Stuart Womans Club for all the events they have monthly and support their Scholorship Fund.

Crusin' right by!

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:13:26 GMT

Stuart Martin Chamber LEADERship Graduation!!

It has been an incredible spring and summer here at Onward & Upward Events and Cruises! We started off with a highly successful Saltwater Slam for the Salvation Army, followed by Stuart/Martin Chamber LEADERship graduation for our fearless CEO Amy.

We are keeping busy with weddings on our yacht, sunset cruises, and booking travel worldwide.

In our philanthropic nature we supported the following great organizations:

Woman That Rock

NAMI

Wounded Warrior Relief Fund Bonita Blast

Briana Smiles

Project Lift Michael Shields INSHORE TOURNAMENT

Cruisin' through 2023!

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:07:03 GMT

Busy First Q

We started out with a bang celebrating a year in business on January 12 !!! We hosted many sunset, brunch, and lazy afternoon cruises and planned a few weddings & honeymoons. We were honored to host a very special VIP Dr. Barry Sears creator of the Zone Diet, one of our founders has lost weight and is feeling quite amazing on his products- https://zonediet.com/

Our Travel & Cruise business keeps us us busy 7 days a week! Poke around here for any travel blog & deals-https://www.evotravelagent.com/travelonupevents.

We kept our community support lending our time to our favorite nonprofits:

Stuart/Martin Chamber of Commerce LEADERship program

Girl Scouts of America

Projectlift

Oceanographic

Eleva8hope

Our Co-Founder Amy was nominated for her Community Support for WEventure of the Treasure Coast, she says she has been doing this for 27 years and she gets true joy out of it; she quotes- "giving is living!"

Amy also joined the advisory board for the Salvation Army, and we are helping plan their Inaugural Saltwater Slam on Saturday May 6 ^th -https://www.facebook.com/events/5640471146052087

We wish you all a very Happy Spring and we will back soon with more updates!

It's a wrap!

onwardupwardevents@gmail.com (Amy Snodgrass) — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 03:01:42 GMT

Still love hosting our Sunset Cruises

As 2022 comes to close we are thankful and grateful to all our followers! We had a super busy fall and winter season.

Here are some of our highlights:

BRIANA COOPER HEAVENLY SMILES FOUNDATION.

OUR FEARLESS CEO WAS ACCEPTED IN THE STUART CHAMBER LEADERSHIP CLASS OF ’32-IT’S KIND OF A BIG DEAL!

ONWARD & UPWARD PARTICPATED IN THE STUART AIR SHOW- OUR NEW PROMOTION IS” ON A YACHT OR IN THE AIR, YOU’; HAVE AN EXPERINCE YOU WONT EVER FORGET”

WE HOSTED VIP’S FROM THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS ON A SUNSET CRUISE

WE WERE A CONTRIBUTOR TO TYKES AND TEENS and WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA.

OUR REAL NEW NEWS- WE ARE NOW OFFERING FULL-SERVICE TRAVEL AND CRUISES, SOMETHING WE HAVE HAD IN OUR WHEEL HOUSE FOR 27 YEARS- https://www.evotravelagent.com/travelonupevents

Have a beautiful holiday season, love, blessings, and peace to all!

In Summertime

onwardupwardevents@gmail.com (Amy Snodgrass) — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 23:00:29 GMT

Jammin and Slammin

Summertime Update

We moved our boat to Mariners Cay to be closer to the ocean and better serve our favorite venue partners for pick up locations at- Sailfish Marina, The Marriott Hutchinson Island, Twisted Tuna, TideHouse, Sailors Return, and The Mansion at Tuckahoe.

We were so honored that Onward & Upward made the cover and headline story for Jensen Beach Magazine!

We have been blessed with some wonderful new clients and our continued support of our favor ite Non-Profits events- The Stuart Martin Chamber Scholarship Foundation Fundraiser, Madison Miracles Celebrity Chef, ARC of the Treasure Coast Fishing Tournament, Horses & Heroes for SE Florida introduction to the community event with Operation 300 and Doug Mustapick. We are elated to be chosen as the event producers of “Fall in Love with Horses & Heroes" event at Operation 300 Camp Valor from 4:00pm-7:00pm on Saturday, October 29 ^th.

Best cruise of the summer was to host a family of refugees from Afghanistan on a very special sunset cruise through Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church.

We hosted Kate & Matthew for their “Elope on a Boat” Celebration, and we hosted many cruises in- between.

"Land or Sea we are here to make your event memorable. "

May 2022

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 23:45:41 GMT

Marvelous May

Onward & Upward Events was blessed and had a busy month, again! We kicked it off as being the anchor sponsor at NAMI Kentucky Derby and it was truly a fun & fabulous event. We hosted so many cruises, but the highlights were on Mother’s Day Cruise surprising the Eggeling’s Mom of RE/MAX Masterpiece Realty with a Sunday Brunch & Jazz cruise, followed by another surprise birthday cruises for our favorite florist, Magnolia’s Flower Shop , we then hosted a few super cool families that won the Projectlift Cruise silent auction for a sunset cruise.

We are rolling out a Father’s Day Special with gift certificates that will be available which includes: a royal hot shave for Dad at Max’s Shave Room, a place a man can call their own, followed by a choice of dinner or lunch at the Tidehouse and concluding with a river cruise aboard Onward & Upward offering your choice of flights of specialty beers, tequila or whiskey on the cruise. For every 5 paying passengers and Dad goes for free!

April 2022

onwardupwardevents@gmail.com (Amy Snodgrass) — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 21:02:23 GMT

New news for April 2022

April has brought many good things to Onward & Upward Events. We were a sponsor for numerous Non- Profit Charities -Madison’s Miracles Enchanted Forest Gala, the annual Clambake for Project Lift which was also attended by Toby Overdorf from the House of Representatives and Justin Simmons from the Denver Broncos, concluding with the Stuart Chamber of Commerce Sky’s the Limit rewarding help with a college scholarship.

We hosted a sunset cruise for TC Mastermind members and a wonderful wedding for Tracey & Dennis. We rolled out our new Floating at Sea Treatments as a participant at the Health & Wellness Show for the Stuart Chamber of Commerce.

We added some truly magical new packages - Floating Spa Treatments, Yacht, Wine and Food Pairings, Tequila Tastings at Sea and Mother's Day Certificates.

We have some new catering partners so we can now offer any gourmet specialty your palate may desire.

Keep on cruising!

Onward & Upward Evolution

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 13:55:07 GMT

Welcome to our blog, one of many to come! So how did Onward & Upward evolve, well that’s a good story to start with isn’t it?!

Onward & Upward started with a couple of folks (Phil & Amy) who really dig being on boats and appreciate the release of serotonin every time they are out to sea. After they purchased a yacht, that from the onset had a very special meaning with the name Onward & Upward to Amy as it’s one of her favorite mantras. It was a natural progression that their special luxury events and charter company would be a business that Phil & Amy could do together; both offering their experienced backgrounds to make it unique, one-of-a kind, and a much needed service in Stuart, Florida.

We hope to see you aboard soon!