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Caribbean Pod Notes B31 Bequia to Carriacou Imray-Iolaire CHARTS FOR THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN ABOUT THIS CHART Compiled by DM Street Jnr This chart has been compiled by D M Street Jr using official sources and additional information acquired during over 50 years of cruising, racing, exploring, chartering and charting the Eastern Caribbean on his 46’ engineless yawl Iolaire built 1905. He is the author of many yachting books and articles first of which was ‘ Going South’ Yachting Sept 1964. His first guide Cruising Guide to the Lesser Antilles is regarded ‘the book that opened the Caribbean to the cruising yachtsman and made bare boat chartering possible’. It is worth reading for its nostalgic view of the Caribbean in the IMPORTANT ‘50s and ‘60s. Through the years this guide has been expanded to cover all the eastern For the latest chart Caribbean, from the western end of Puerto Rico east and south thru the islands to Trinidad, then westwards along the Venezuelan coast and off shore islands to Aruba. corrections visit Use Street’s Guides for interisland sailing directions, harbour piloting directions and www.imray.com interesting anecdotes of people, places and history. Street’s Guides are the only guides that cover all the anchorages in the Eastern Caribbean. Patience Wales, editor of Sail , once said, ‘Circle in red all the anchorages that Street describes that are not in the The information shown on charts is other guides and you will have a quiet anchorage’. liable to constant change; Imray Street has also been in the marine insurance business placing insurance for yachts of ensures that every chart is correct to all sizes and ages sailing in all areas of the world with Lloyds since 1966. Visit the printing date shown below. www.street-iolaire.com. Email [email protected]. The author and publishers believe that this chart is the most accurate and up to date Corrections received after this date available of the area it covers. It can, however, only remain so if mariners will notify may be downloaded from the publishers of any inaccuracy or need for correction of which they may be aware. www.imray.com as Correction The pilotage information on this chart is taken from Street’s Martinique to Trinidad to Notices. These are regularly updated Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd www.imray.com and the website should be checked. Internet sales for current and out of print editions iuniverse.com, alibris.co.uk and Amazon.com Smartphone users can Five popular sailing videos made in the late 80s early 90s featuring DM Street Jr are link directly to now available at www.thesailingchannel.tv. One of them concerns cruising the the Corrections Notice Grenadines, the most popular one which was highly praised by Tom Cunliffe in his for this chart review in Sail, and Herb Mc Cormack in Crusing World is Transatlantic with Street , the story of Iolaire’s 1985 Transatlantic via Vigo, Madeira, Canaries, Cape Verdes. using the QR code. TheSailingChannel.TV offers all five videos in one digital package, The Complete Street, online at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecompletestreet Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd Bequia Wych House The Broadway St Ives I.à Quatre Baliceaux Cambridgeshire PE27 5BT England ✆ +44(0)1480 462114 Mustique Fax +44(0)1480 496109 www.imray.com Edition date: 2015 Charlestown Canouan Bay Corrected to October 2015 Mayreau Tobago Cays Union I. Clifton Harbour Electronic versions of this chart Hillsborough Imray charts are also available as apps for iPad Carriacou and iPhone in raster format in the Imray Chart Navigator series. The series also includes chart sets from official hydrographic offices. Search ‘Marine Imray Charts’ on the App Store. 1 most yachtsmen expect, two tides a day) but Pilotage notes by from Antigua north, the tides are diurnal, 1 one tide a day, though in actuality if you DM Street, Jnr Hr ZENITH check very accurate tidal gauges you will T EAST IDE discover two tides, one major, a second one Use in conjunction with so small to be barely noticeable, thus the tide Street’s Guide to the 1 tables refer to it as diurnal. Puerto Rico and Eastern Caribbean - Hr the Virgin Islands area is further complicated W by the fact that on the south side of Puerto E Martinique to Trinidad E D I S T T Rico and St Thomas, there is one tide a day, Iolaire 2013 T T S I while on the north side of both islands there D E E W are two tides a day; east coast of Puerto Rico, B31 - Bequia to Vieques and Culebra have two tides a day. 1 Hr At one part of the year, the highest tide is Carriacou during the day, at other times of the year the highest tide is during the night. Schomberg, EAST TIDE GENERAL CAUTIONS the Danish naturalist, explained that during NADIR 1 the equinox, September and October, March Yachtsmen navigating this area are Hr and April, the evening tide is the highest, the reminded that whilst much of the region has rest of the year the daytime tide is the been resurveyed in the last 50 years much of highest. the data is of 19th-century origin. Since then, In periods of spring tides especially if the topography above and below the water may trades have not been blowing hard, the well have become altered by natural causes It is extremely important to allow for the set flood tide will overcome the Equatorial such as volcanic eruptions, movement of current and give an easterly set. In normal sandbanks, the growth of coral etc. This of the current which is made up of the easterly wind blown Equatorial current, circumstances in the passages the tide runs chart must therefore be used with caution. eight hours west, four east. However within Inshore navigation should only be reinforced by the ebb tide or partially (and occasionally completely) negated by the the Virgin Islands in Pillsbury Sound and undertaken in good light when the sun is Drakes Passage which are largely sheltered high. Navigational aids (buoys, beacons and flood tide. Taking advantage of a weather- going current can change a passage from from the Equatorial current, the tide ebb lights) are notable for their absence and/or and flood is six hours each direction. unreliability. being a real hard slog, to a glorious reach. It is important to read the sailing and pilot With tide and current setting you to Warning directions for the area concerned the night leeward, you will have to sail 010° to 015° The Caribbean is 0.4m to 0.6m lower in May, before, in order to plan the next day's run, above the rhumb line, but if it is setting you June, July and early August than it is in and to calculate your departure in time to to windward you will be able to sail a course winter this was noted in the 1867 Norie and guarantee arrival at the next anchorage 010° to 015° to leeward of the rhumb line. Wilson Sailing Directions in these months while the sun is still high. This makes a difference of 020° to 030° often shoal channels into various harbours should It is also important on interisland passages changing a dead beat to an easy close reach. be used with caution. Nanny Cay - Tortola, to allow for the set of the current. Stay to This often makes the difference between Manuel Reef marina, Wickhams Cay, Fat windward of the rhumb line. Take back slamming into it, or an eased sheet reach, Hog/East End Bay, Jolly Harbour Antigua bearings until you can see the island ahead. really flying. This is particularly true from St Rodney Bay Marina, Blue Lagoon - St In this day and age where GPS is more Vincent to St Lucia, Martinique to Dominica, Vincent, do not have tide gauges and require prevalent than hand bearing compasses, Deshaies (Guadeloupe) to English Harbour particular care. Yachts are increasing in size take GPS readings every half hour and plot (Antigua). whilst shoal channels can be used safely in them on the chart, make sure you stay to If you plan your passages so that you have winter, in summer, at low water springs; windward of the rhumb line between your the flood tide helping you it can make a there have been incidents when large yachts starting point and your anchorage. All large difference to your sailing time. The have grounded completely blocking the courses given in the text are rhumb lines. difference from setting off on a lee-going tide to a weather-going tide is generally channel for others. The author has Do not enter strange harbours at night. campaigned for many years for gauges to be Many lights are unreliable 020°, often as much as 030°. There is a short and brief rule of thumb method. The tide introduced to prevent these incidents. Norie and Wilson Sailing Directions to the starts running to the east soon after HIGH WATER FULL AND CHANGE Caribbean (1817) state, ‘When passing to moonrise, continues to run east until about leeward of the high islands stay within two an hour after the moon reaches its zenith The time of High Water at each location pistol shots distance of shore or seven (overhead) then it runs westward, during full and new moons (full & change) leagues (21 miles) off.’ Still as true today as reinforcing the westerly current. Then as the occurs at a set time after the meridian it was in 1817. moon sets, the tide starts running again to passage of the moon for each location.
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