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Prior to Insurance – Hurricane Preparedness – Sink your Boat!

At the time it was quite normal to sink any boat (which didn't have an engine) when storms threatened, if there wasn't time to haul ashore

Polar Training Vessel was Sunk off the Antiguan Shelf

After a life that resembled the nine lives of a cat, polar training vessel My Way was towed to sea and sunk off the Antiguan shelf.

Budget Marine in Grenada Undamaged by Hurricane Ivan

Caribbean News from around the region for November 2004

Sir James McAlpine Brooks of Redonda – An Intrepid Aussie

Caribbean’s Pitts and Figueroa – Hernandez at Athens Summer Olympics

Hurricane Hole St. John

St. John’s Hurricane Hole

Boaters find refuge in Hurricane Hole on the northeast side of St. John. During the threat of a hurricane they would tie into the mangroves

Jr. Sailors Represent VI at 2004 Optimist National Championships

BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival – Seven Days of Fun

Nanny Cay Introduces New Storage System – Obtains Pantaenius Approval

Over from Coral Bay, St. John and giving their all at Foxy’s

Foxy’s Wooden Boat Regatta Celebrates 30 Years

Martinique Retains Caribbean Dinghy Championships

Blue Beads of Statia. Image courtesy of St. Eustatius Tourism Development Foundation

Blue Beads of Statia

The blue Statian bead looks like many others, perhaps one of the reasons behind the myth that the Dutch bought Manhattan with 30 Statian blue beads

All Eyes on French St. Martin

Antigua’s Karl James

Karl James – Leading By Example

Karl James' progress from charter crew, through Olympic competitor to youth sailing instructor is an inspiration

Tony Maidment – The Skipper’s Skipper

For a sixty-year-old salt, Tony Maidment has done more than your average skipper. His career started in 1968 -- in a pub in the UK -- when he and a pal were asked to sail to the Caribbean.