Buckman Charters is a small charter company in Atlantis. The exact nature of its typical charters has unfortunately died with the proprietor, Charles Buckman, but it is thought that they included animal and plant collecting from the New Hawaii region, wilderness charters, package delivery, and so on.
Buckman Charters is a little over a kilometer to the west of the Atlantis airstrip, itself to the west of Atlantis town by perhaps half a kilometer. It is situated on a rise next to a small cove - Buckman cove. Its three buildings are raised on sturdy three-meter stilts, and the rise itself is about ten meters above the high-tide mark in the cove. There is a floating dock extending out into the cove big enough to tie up two twenty-foot boats, one on each side. The three buildings are the office, the dorm, and the utility building. The cove itself is a rough half-circle bitten out of the coast and surrounded by reefs. It is fifty meters deep at the center, and has at least four submerged lava tubes under the water - a quite unusual geological formation.
The property is wired for electricity, with a cable extending from the generator next to the air strip to the utility building, from which cables snake to the other buildings. Solar panels cover each roof, providing supplemental (and free) power. Plumbing is comparatively primitive, with a cistern on top of the dorm providing fresh water to that building. A large solar still is moored to the dock to provide additional water when Maui's weather is not obliging, and a partially-disassembled osmotic filtration setup is on a table in the utility building.
The utility building also has technical-assistant robots with remote operation capability and a lifting strength of 1000 pounds apiece. The software in these robots is limited to the most basic grunt work assistance, although with upgrades they could easily have minor technical skills. The utility building serves as the graveyard of many projects and pieces of projects that never got finished. The supports for this building are arranged so that a jeep-sized vehicle can easily be pulled onto a patch of biocrete underneath the building, and the floor above this patch opens so that things can be winched inside. The whole utility building is perhaps the size of two three-car garages, and is constructed of industrial-grade bioplastics.
The dorm is a large single-story building with six rooms, each of which has a bunk bed and a plastic dresser. There is a shower underneath the building, set up between some of the stilts. The dorm is constructed mostly of native wood coated with protective sealant.
The office has a lookout tower on top which is ten meters high, and a satellite dish mounted on the roof as well. It is the closest of the three buildings to the bay, and has an excellent view of the cove, ocean, and reefs. Inside is a large lounge room and two small offices, one of them Buckmans, one of them used for meetings. On the other side of the lounge from the offices are a kitchen and storage pantry (though food is often stored underneath the building as well when hurricanes are not expected). These are the domain of Coot, who sleeps on a cot in the kitchen.
Buckman Charters owns a Kingfisher VTOL aircraft that has been modified to carry a dolphin tank directly behind the pilot seats. The Kingfisher can carry about three tons of weight and has a range of over 3000 kilometers. The tank takes up about a ton of weight when fully loaded. The Kingfisher also has two five-hundred liter external fuel tanks which may be loaded: these increase range while decreasing weight capacity.
Buckman Charters also owns a six-meter open motor launch which is moored at the dock... it's a boat often used to go to Atlantis, but isn't really suited for long trips. Apparently the company used to own a larger boat as well, but it was lost at sea around 280.100. The final company vehicle is a small and decrepit jeep, whose range extends from the cove to the utility building and back. It could possibly be taken along the rutted track to Atlantis or further along the coast, but frankly does not seem to be up to the job.