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Breeze_lover
Newbie Joined: 03 Feb 20 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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Topic: Caribbean islands: need advice on the route Posted: 19 Feb 20 at 2:52pm |
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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zeon
Far too distracted from work Joined: 20 Aug 16 Online Status: Offline Posts: 316 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 19 Feb 20 at 4:20pm |
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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iGRF
Really should get out more Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6496 |
Post Options Quote Reply 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. Edited by iGRF - 20 Feb 20 at 8:35pm |
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NickM99
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 20 at 11:09pm |
Agree with GRF that English Harbour Antigua needs to be in there somewhere.
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Breeze_lover
Newbie Joined: 03 Feb 20 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Feb 20 at 9:30am |
Thank you!
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snowleopard
Groupie Joined: 02 Oct 17 Location: Cornwall Online Status: Offline Posts: 66 |
Post Options Quote Reply 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
Edited by snowleopard - 11 Mar 20 at 5:54pm |
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snowleopard
Groupie Joined: 02 Oct 17 Location: Cornwall Online Status: Offline Posts: 66 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Mar 20 at 5:56pm |
P.S. Skip Barbados - unless you fancy 12 hours bashing to windward in big waves!
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One hull good, two hulls better.
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julienwsm
Newbie Joined: 01 Sep 20 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 02 Sep 20 at 9:13am |
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.
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barco
Newbie Joined: 20 Aug 20 Online Status: Offline Posts: 14 |
Post Options Quote Reply 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??
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