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Waiting for the Weather in St Kitts

January 3, 2015 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

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 dark. To quote our weather […]

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Oualie Beach, Nevis – Sailingkids review

December 29, 2014 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

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 shallow, so deeper draft boats […]

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Sailing Kids Review -Saint Martin

December 16, 2014 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

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 Marigot. It lies on a […]

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The Pirates First Passage – BVI to Anguilla

December 6, 2014 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

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 of numbers glowing in the […]

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Paradise Lost?

November 27, 2014 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

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 Van Dyke I think three […]

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