Updated 16-Oct-2019 I was surprised to find that bareboat chartering is a very economical way to vacation IF you’re willing to vacation with a boatload of your (soon to be) closest friends. Your accommodations always have unlimited access to the worlds largest infinity pool! Money Saving Tips Of course you have to be conscientious about […]
Winter Break: Bareboat Antigua and Barbuda
Eight days in paradise with 16 of my closest friends. Watching this video makes me feel like I’m back aboard our catamaran sailing the Caribbean trades. Seasickness warning: I tried to capture the feel of sailing a boat in open water in the trades in the first few minutes; a friend or two have reported […]
Barbuda Passage Plan vs. Reality
Due to provisioning delays and a charter briefing recommendation against overnighting in Dickenson Bay given the prevailing swells we wound up leaving for Barbuda from Five Islands Harbor so the passage would be about 5nm longer than anticipated. Barbuda was the most ambitious passage of the trip so some planning had gone into it. Want […]
Antigua Bareboat Day by Day
Join us for 9 days and 8 nights chartering in Antigua. Day One – Saturday: All 17 of us made it to the Sunsail base around 4pm. Even though the boats weren’t technically ready until 6pm we were allowed to move gear aboard. Shere Khan was the 50’ monohull carrying 9 souls and Teranga III […]
Choosing our Second Caribbean Bareboat Location
Some sailing friends and I wanted to do another trip during the winter and this is a summary of the process we went through deciding where we should go. Where to Visit When to visit was a constraint of ours, we wanted to sail in the off-season after the new year. So it was either […]
Passage Evaluation: Antigua to Barbuda
As skipper and navigator just about every time we go out sailing there is “passage” evaluation and planning. Even if it’s as simple as “we have 3 hours, let’s head east for 1 hour and back west for 2” you’re always evaluating options, most of the time intuitively your head. This evaluation gets harder as […]