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AYREAU M Story on Page 22 CHRISTINE GOOCH JULY 2014 CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 2 DEPARTMENTS Info & Updates C A R I B B E A N On-line C MPASS JULY 2014 NO. 226 The Caribbean’s Monthly Look at Sea & Shore AGNETIC AYREAU M Story on page 22 CHRISTINE GOOCH JULY 2014 CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 2 DEPARTMENTS Info & Updates ......................4 The Caribbean Sky ...............34 Business Briefs .......................7 Cooking with Cruisers ..........38 Eco-News .............................. 9 Readers’ Forum .....................39 Regatta News........................ 11 Calendar of Events ...............40 All Ashore… .......................... 22 Product Postings ...................40 Fun Page ............................... 30 What’s On My Mind ..............41 The Caribbean’s Monthly Look at Sea & Shore Meridian Passage .................31 Caribbean Market Place .....42 Book Reviews...................31, 32 Classified Ads ....................... 46 www.caribbeancompass.com Movie Review ....................... 33 Advertisers’ Index .................46 JULY 2014 • NUMBER 226 Caribbean Compass is published monthly by Compass Publishing Ltd., P.O. 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Letters and submissions may be edited for length and clarity. ©2014 Compass Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication, except short Reveling in the Rio Dulce ......16 “I had lost my boat…’ ........... 28 excerpts for review purposes, may be made without written permission of Compass Publishing Ltd. ISSN 1605 - 1998 On the cover: A tiny Grenadines isle casts a large spell. The friendliness of Mayreau makes it a perennial cruisers’ favorite Compass covers the Caribbean! From Cuba to Trinidad, from Panama to Barbuda, we’ve got the news and views that sailors can use. We’re the Caribbean’s monthly look at sea and shore. ‘Caribbean Compass is a useful and accessible boater’s rag — information-packed and unbiased.’ — Readers’ Survey 2014 respondent Click Google Map link below to fi nd the Caribbean Compass near you! http://bit.ly/1fMC2Oy This year, the experimental five-day TWO forecasts become operational, and the form of the TWO will change slightly. In addition, NHC will introduce an experimental corresponding five-day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook (GTWO) to accompany the text product. The new five-day GTWO, available for the Atlantic Basin beginning July 1st, will indi- cate the formation potential of individual disturbances during the next five days. The current location of existing disturbances will be denoted by an “X”, and shaded areas will represent the potential tropical cyclone formation area for each distur- Info bance during the subsequent five-day period. The areas will be color-coded by development likelihood, with yellow representing a low (<30%) chance, orange denoting a medium (30% to 50%) chance, and red corresponding to a high (>50%) & Updates chance of tropical cyclone formation during the next five days. A mouse-over fea- ture will allow users to see the accompanying Outlook text for each disturbance. Clicking on a disturbance will display a graphic showing only that disturbance, which should improve clarity when the forecast genesis areas overlap. National Hurricane Center Changes for 2014 Because the new five-day GTWO will tend to be busier than the current 48-hour The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) will implement some changes to its text GTWO (which will continue to be produced), the five-day graphic will not display and graphical products for the 2014 hurricane season. the locations of existing tropical cyclones. In addition, some aspects of the 48-hour • During the 2013 hurricane season, NHC extended the time period covered in the GTWO will change. Previously, the 48-hour graphic denoted disturbances with circles Tropical Weather Outlook text product (TWO) to five days on an experimental basis. or ovals; beginning in 2014, disturbances will be denoted by Xs, just as they are NOAA depicted in the five-day graphic. Active tropical cyclones will continue to be depicted on the 48-hour graphic. • The Intensity Probability Table will be eliminated. The Wind Speed Probability text product included a table showing the likelihood that a tropical cyclone would be at any of several different intensity categories (e.g., depression, storm, Category 1 hurri- cane, etcetera) at fixed points in time (e.g., 12 hours, 24 hours, etcetera). This table was originally intended to help users assess the risk of different storm intensities at particular times. However, NHC has learned that many users consult this table to estimate the chances that a tropical cyclone will make landfall at one or more of the various intensity categories. Unfortunately, the current methodology provides a highly misleading estimate of landfall intensity. Because of the likelihood of misuse for land-threatening storms, NHC is discontinuing this table until a better procedure to estimate intensity risk can be developed. • Beginning with the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, NHC will issue the Potential Storm Surge Flooding Map for those areas along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the United States at risk of storm surge from a tropical cyclone. We don’t know yet if Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands will be included, but we hope so. There are other changes, too. For more information visit www.nhc.noaa.gov/news. Grenada’s Grenville Harbour Re-Buoyed Grenada’s Grenville Harbour has recently been re-buoyed. See story on page 20. Cuba Updates from Cheryl Barr Cruising guide author Cheryl Barr (Yacht Pilot’s Cruising Guide to Cuba) reports that while visiting Cuba this past winter, “Not only did we enjoy the company of more cruis- ers, better food, and access to day-to-day items that we couldn’t buy in other years, but we also completed research for Volume 2 of the Cruising Guide to Cuba series. —Continued on next page JULY 2014 CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 4 Our OCEAN PLUS sails are guaranteed for five years or 50,000 miles. Built by sailmakers dedicated to building the finest, most durable and technologically advanced sails possible. 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