Ten teams sharing four boats slugged it out in this year’s Lagoonies Regatta held in St. Maarten’s Simpson Bay Lagoon. Fifteen races were sailed back-to-back, with a mid-regatta break for lunch at Lagoonies Bistro, the event’s main sponsor and host. Conditions in the lagoon were typical with periods of light winds and explosive gusts…
A rainbow hung over the Simpson Bay Lagoon as the naming ceremony for the Didy 26 race boat, built by high school students from Milton Peters College, got underway at the St. Maarten Shipyard in late February. With just days to go before the start of the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, the omens were good and…
Island Water World Marigot store now customs clearing station for St. Martin Recent confusion over customs clearance in French St. Martin is at an end. In future, private yachts and charter vessels are able to clear customs at Island Water World’s Marigot store, next to the Geminga Boatyard on the Simpson Bay Lagoon. This brings to…
After watching the Budget Marine Interlux One Design Regatta sailed on St. Maarten’s Simpson Bay Lagoon in February, there can be no doubt that one-design regattas are changing sailing for the better. Organizing a regatta is no easy task but as the Interlux Regatta proves, if you provide the right incentive and make regattas accessible…
They said she would never do it but it would have taken more than an obstructive government and the power of the great oceans to stop 16 year-old Laura Dekker from becoming the youngest person to sail single-handed around the world. Dekker tied the knot on her circumnavigation on March 21st when she steered her…