Caribbean islands: need advice on the route

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?

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.

Edited by iGRF - 20 Feb 20 at 8:35pm

Thank you!

P.S.  Skip Barbados - unless you fancy 12 hours bashing to windward in big waves!

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??