“If you want to bury your head in the sand, then best stay on the beach,” is how one Caribbean skipper put it when his crew were complaining about trying to repair a piece of equipment while at sea. Plato put it another way, he said “necessity is the mother of invention” and he must…
Thousands of yachtsmen can thank goodness that Donald Street, Jr., an avid sailor who has spent over half a century cruising, charting and writing about the Caribbean, didn’t follow his mother’s advice. That is, she wanted him to get a banker’s job in the ‘canyons’ of New York so he could make money and buy…
The dangers on the weather side of Martinique never bothered Donald Street. Before charts were drawn—and while he was drawing them—Street navigated and explored the windward coast of the French island in his engineless yawl Iolaire. With Street in mind and Iolaire’s namesake charts on the navigation table, I set out from Roseau, Dominica, with…
Last summer, my fiancee Mia Karlsson and I led a teenage live-aboard sail-training program for the adventure travel outfit Broadreach.
Here’s another interview with Donald Street from Carol Bareuther Don Street is a legend in his own time; a lifetime sailor, Don has spent forty nine years cruising, charting and writing about the Caribbean. Forty of those years were spent aboard his 46 ft. engineless yawl, Iolaire, built in 1905. He has made 12 transatlantic…
