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The British Virgin Islands: The Sailor’s Playground
Part 1: Virgin Gorda & The Baths After taking in all the beautiful blues of sea and sky along with fun bars, buildings of boat parts, and various historical attractions that Sint Maartin had to offer,...
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The Island of Two Nations: Sint Maarten (Dutch) / Saint Martin (French)
We had planned to go on a overnight direct sail to Sint Maarten, but on the advice of our new friend Buddy we decided to veer up through “The Narrows” between St. Kitts and Nevis and day sail to a large...
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St. Kitts: The Mother Colony of the West Indies
Knowing we had a short sail over to the island of St. Kitts from Nevis (about 7 nm), we decided to sleep in and have a nice breakfast before raising the Jib and heading west. The winds were 10-15 directly...
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Beautiful Nevis (Of St. Kitts & Nevis): Rainbows and rum
We departed from Antigua for a new Caribbean country. St. Kitts and Nevis. The first island you come to heading westbound is Nevis. Nevis the smaller of the two islands comprising the nation of Saint Kitts...
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Stretching our Caribbean Cruising legs: To Barbuda and Back
On to the beautiful quiet island of Barbuda!….well, we got a bit North, but not quite there just yet. The winds were forecasted to be a quartering head wind which with our AWS sail system should have been...
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Sailing into our Caribbean Adventure: First Stop Antigua
2222 miles in just over 15 days after departing Cape Verde, the trade winds dropped us off in Antigua. Of note, it was now 4,387.2 miles from the start of our journey in Valencia, Spain! It was climatic...
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