Yearly Archives: 2016

Written March 16, Simpson Bay Lagoon, St. Martin “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it” – Salvador Dalí When things are less than perfect aboard Cedar, I sometimes wonder what an ideal cruising experience would look like. Here are a few ideas that come to mind: There would […]

10 Steps to Sailing Perfection

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Written March 13, Simpson Bay Lagoon, St. Martin I feel like we’ve been very lucky with the people we’ve met as we travel. A nice little cruising gang took shape in Martinique, half by chance. It was made up of sailing vessels Strider, Cape Crusader, Kantala and ourselves. I say […]

Cruising Communities

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There’s only one Lagoon, and it’s Simpson Bay Lagoon, in St. Maarten. After spending three months here last year, we returned to one of our favourite places in the Caribbean. It is not the most beautiful, but it has the best people, the best community. This is where the sailors […]

The Lagoon

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Written 22 February, Falmouth Harbour, Antigua. The big racing yachts with their fancy high tech black sails are getting ready, here in Antigua today. It’s the RORC Caribbean 600 and this is where it all starts. I don’t know much about racing, but the show will be good. Guy, from […]

The RORC Caribbean 600

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Written February, 5 2016 Our hop from St. Pierre, Martinique to Roseau, Dominica may have been our best sail yet: 15-20 knot winds, 1-2 m waves, a beam reach and a current in our favour. We raced along averaging 7 knots! This meant a seven-hour sail was reduced to only […]

Portsmouth, Dominica

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Written January 31, 2016   The days have flown by. From Grand Anse d’Arlet, we sailed around to Fort-de-France to wait out some strong winds in the lee of Fort Josephine. This is a fort that you are not allowed to visit despite the fact it is featured prominently in […]

St. Pierre, Martinique

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