The 2017 RORC Caribbean 600 started in magnificent conditions with the largest ever offshore fleet assembled in the Caribbean. Close to 900 sailors from 30 different nations competed in the 9th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s classic offshore race around 11 Caribbean islands, starting and finishing in Antigua. The race was affected by…
The sixth edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 had a record entry of 60 yachts with 682 sailors taking part. All At Sea’s Louay Habib looks at why the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Caribbean 600 is proving irresistible to a wide variety of yachts and sailors. For over 50-years, the Caribbean has hosted inshore…
Camper & Nicholsons’ Port Louis Marina is currently hosting many of the yachts taking part in the Oyster World Rally. This extraordinary odyssey started in Antigua in January 2013 and has seen two dozen of the finest yachts in the Oyster fleet cross the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans and visit countless countries and islands…
In the November issue (Professionalization of Sailing Events in the Caribbean) of All At Sea Robbie Ferron states that a number of new regattas taking place in the Caribbean are well sponsored events where professionalism and profit is now more important than any earlier Corinthian ideals. Whereas this may be true in certain events this…
Venus in Sint Maarten The super yacht Venus, built by Feadship for late entrepreneur Steve Jobs, was a surprise visitor to Isle de Sol Marina, St. Maarten in October. Jobs died in October 2011, the yacht was unveiled a year later at a cost of more than €100 million. The two upper decks are the…