Caribbean islands: need advice on the route
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Topic: Caribbean islands: need advice on the route
Posted By: Breeze_lover
Subject: Caribbean islands: need advice on the route
Date Posted: 19 Feb 20 at 2:52pm
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Hi everybody, I'd love to go sailing round Caribbean islands with a group of friends in March. Will appreciate any recommendations on the route! I've got some experience, but not plenty, and would love to practice in a beautiful place like that. Is that a good idea? |
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Posted By: zeon
Date Posted: 19 Feb 20 at 4:20pm
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Sounds marvellous hope you have a great time . Not sure how much cruising experience is on the forum at the moment . Most of us spend our time racing round 100 acre puddles
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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 20 Feb 20 at 8:32pm
I once took a bare boat out of St Marten with some pals, across to St Barts overnight, then down to St Kitts, Nevis, overnight again, then to Antigua where we arrived a week to early for Antigua week, must have been late March early April 99/2000. Fabulous three or four days in and out of English harbour teaching myself to kite surf somewhere up the coast a bit. Then the last day we gunned it from Antigua back to St Barts in a day, (we stuck pretty much to daytime sailing, one of the dicks we were with dec ided in his captaincy on the first night, to disconnect the Battery (for overnight safety  ) and defrosted the freezer and lost all the waypoints in the GPS.
But it was a fun trip can thoroughly reccommend a blue water cruise down there, we even got to spot a bloody Whale just off Redonda, fabulous trip marred by one t**ser, but there's always one. ------------- https://www.corekite.co.uk/snow-accessories-11-c.asp" rel="nofollow - Snow Equipment Deals https://www.corekite.co.uk" rel="nofollow - New Core Kite website |
Posted By: NickM99
Date Posted: 24 Feb 20 at 11:09pm
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Agree with GRF that English Harbour Antigua needs to be in there somewhere.
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Posted By: Breeze_lover
Date Posted: 25 Feb 20 at 9:30am
| Thank you! |
Posted By: snowleopard
Date Posted: 11 Mar 20 at 5:52pm
I'll second that. A lot depends on your view of life. For example we loved Dominica but some friends hated it - they preferred things nice and sanitised. If you like nice restaurants and waterside bars, stick to the French islands - Martinique, Guadeloupe, St Martin and travel by air-conditioned taxi. If you want to see real island life, go for the English islands - St Lucia, Dominica, Antigua and travel by rusty minibus ('dollar buses'). Here are a few of our favourite spots: /Grenadines: Tobago Cays, Bequia /St Lucia: Marigot Bay /Martinique: Pointe du Bout, St Pierre /Guadeloupe: Isles des Saines /Montserrat: Volcano taxi tour /St Barts: Anse des Colombier /St Martin: Cole Bay & Lagoon /Barbuda: 7-mile beach
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Posted By: snowleopard
Date Posted: 11 Mar 20 at 5:56pm
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P.S. Skip Barbados - unless you fancy 12 hours bashing to windward in big waves! ------------- One hull good, two hulls better. |
Posted By: julienwsm
Date Posted: 02 Sep 20 at 9:13am
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My friends went sailing to the Bahamas one year ago and they loved it. You have a lot of islands to choose from. They said it was pure paradise and you get to see a lot by sailing in this areas. ------------- Knowing is not enough; we must apply. |
Posted By: barco
Date Posted: 26 Sep 20 at 6:10pm
| Sailing in the Caribbean is one of my dreams. I love the warm, crystal clear water, the palm trees on the beaches, the white sand... I drink a coconut every day. :-) I can also highly recommend Puerto Rico. I didn't go there for sailing, but we did a little round trip there. The country is breathtakingly beautiful, the people are super friendly and the food was amazing as well…I can totally recommend it!! Breeze_lover, did you go there at the end? Or were your travel plans destroyed by Covid?? |