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Another Day at the Office
Now we have a good connection, here is a video we made en route from Saba to St Kitts.
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Waiting for the Weather in St Kitts
For the first time, it seems we are twirling around on our anchor chain waiting on the “weather window” to make our next passage, to Guadeloupe. It’s about 75 miles to Guadeloupe. With at least 12 hours of sailing, that means we’d have to be sailing overnight to arrive before…
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Oualie Beach, Nevis – Sailingkids review
Oualie Beach is a small beach at the north west corner of Nevis. After the very long Pinney’s Beach that runs the length of the west side, it’s probably the only other feasible-ish anchorage on Nevis in normal trade conditions. The challenge with Qualie Beach is that it is very…
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Sailing Kids Review -Saint Martin
The “Martin” brothers are a single island that is half French and half Dutch, the second major island of the leeward chain after Anguila. Just as brothers can be, the two halves couldn’t be more different. We started in the French half. Approaching from the north, the major anchorage is…
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The Pirates First Passage – BVI to Anguilla
Sometimes it seems, sailing is all about numbers. Time 2:18am. Depth 6,200′. Wind 11.4 knots, 97 degrees apparent. Speed 5.4 knots, 105 degrees. I think I have some very vague sense of what flying a plane is like, moving along at night in a cockpit, continually glancing at the array…
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Paradise Lost?
So this post might get some negative reaction. It’s certainly very easy for “off islanders” to come and be critical about the local Caribbean environment. But, after hanging round Joost Van Dyke for a day or so, something doesn’t seem quite right in paradise. We came to Foxy’s on Joost…
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Benures Bay, Norman Island – Sailing Kids Review
Benures Bay is on the north side of Norman Island. It’s well off the beaten “charter track” most, if not all charter boats are anchoring in the Bight and doing body shots at Willy T’s. Peter says “Benures Bay is a medium sized bay on the Tortola side of Norman…
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Nanny Cay – Sailing Kids Review
Nanny Cay is a large and well protected marina on the south side of Tortola. It has a small “village” of shops, and the marina includes a beach, pool, bar and restaurant. Day says “Nanny Cay is home to Budget Marine, one of the best and largest chandelries in the…
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Landfall in Tortola
Five days ago Alchemy made landfall in Nanny Cay, Tortola. After 1,464 miles and (roughly) 11d 13h 0m 1s at sea, we came into Tortola at 11:45pm at night. As I think the oldest boat in the fleet (Alchemy is 40 years old), we started 4-5 hours late and managed…
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The Tropics
For the last day, we have been sailing further and further south, some 200 miles. Today we can feel the sun, bright in the blue sky. Layers come off and we are changing from our matching red Gill jackets to shorts and t shirts. As we are now firmly in…
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