C A R I B B E A N On-line C MPASS MAY 2009 NO.NO. 164 TheThe Caribbean’sC Monthly Look at Sea & Shore See story on page 22 CHRIS DOYLE (2) MAY 2009 CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 2 MAY 2009 CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 3 CALENDAR MAY 1 May Day/Labour Day. Public holiday in many places 1 - 2 Sweet Cry Antigua Festival cancelled 1 – 3 Ethnik Festival, Marie-Galante (concerts, films, free camping). [email protected] The Caribbean’s Monthly Look at Sea & Shore 1 – 4 West Indies Regatta, St. Barts. www.WestIndiesRegatta.com 2 - 10 St. Lucia Jazz Festival. www.stluciajazz.org www.caribbeancompass.com 3 West Marine Atlantic Cup sets sail from Tortola, BVI to Bermuda. www.carib1500.com MAY 2009 • NUMBER 164 4 Bank holiday (Labour Day celebrated). Public holiday in many places 5 World Environment Day 5 Youman Nabi. Public holiday in Guyana Curaçao to 7 ARC Europe sets sail from Nanny Cay, BVI, to Portugal. www.worldcruising.com/arceurope Panama 8 Armistice Day. Public holiday in French West Indies DEAN BARNES Delivery style ........................ 24 9 FULL MOON 9 Anguilla Sailing Festival. www.anguillaregatta.com 10 – 15 Mount Gay Boatyard Regatta, Barbados. [email protected] Peninsula of Peril 16 – 17 Capt. Oliver’s Regatta, St. Maarten. www.coyc-sxm.com Another attack off Paria ........26 18 Public holiday in Cayman Islands (Discovery Day) and Haiti (Flag Day) 20 ALEX NEBE Independence Day. Public holiday in Cuba 20 - 24 Round Guadeloupe Race. www.triskellcup.com Spring Thing 21 Ascension Day. Public holiday in Haiti and Dutch and French islands BVI Spring Regatta ............... 15 21 - 23 Combat de Coques Regatta, Martinique. Club Nautique du Marin, tel (596) 74 92 48, fax (596) 74 62 02, [email protected] 22 Emancipation Day. Public holiday in Martinique Round Grenada, 22 - 23 35th Annual Foxy’s Wooden Boat Regatta, Jost Van Dyke. www.weyc.net Fast! 22 – 24 Vela Cup Race, Puerto Rico. www.puertoricovelacup.com Record demolished ............... 16 22 – 24 St. Lucia to Martinique Race (to be confirmed). www.stluciayachtclub.com 23 Labour Day. Public holiday in Jamaica 23 - 30 Curaçao Dive Festival. www.curacaodive.com 23 - 25 BVI Music Festival. www.bvimusicfest.net JEREMY SMITH 24 Public holiday in Haiti (Mother’s Day) and Bermuda (Bermuda Day) 25 Memorial Day. Public holiday in Puerto Rico and USVI 26 Public holiday in Turks & Caicos (National Heroes Day) 27 Abolition Day. Public holiday in Guadeloupe Cruise Puerto Rico Castoff to Showoff 28 – 1 June Canouan Regatta. Canouan Sailing Club (784) 458-8197 ¿Y porque no? ...................... 20 Refitting a derelict boat ......... 30 30 Public holiday in Anguilla (Anguilla Day) and Trinidad & Tobago (Indian Arrival Day) 30 – 31 Yole (sailing canoe) Races, Martinique. www.yoles-rondes.org DEPARTMENTS 30 – 31 Martinique to St. Lucia Race. Yacht Club de la Martinique (YCM), Business Briefs .......................8 Cartoons ................................ 33 tel (596) 63 26 76, fax (596) 63 94 48, [email protected] 30 – 1 June 5th Zoo Regatta, Gosier, Guadeloupe. www.zoo-regatta.com Meridian Passage .................8 Cruising Kids’ Corner ............34 31 Pentecost. Public holiday in Bonaire Eco-News .............................. 10 Dolly’s Deep Secrets ............34 Regatta News........................ 18 Book Review ......................... 35 Doyle’s Deck View ...............22 Cooking with Cruisers ..........36 Different Boats .......................29 Readers’ Forum .....................38 JUNE Cruising Crossword ............... 32 What’s on My Mind ............... 42 1 Whit Monday. Public holiday in many places MAY 2009 CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 4 Word Search Puzzle ..............32 Caribbean Marketplace...... 44 5 Labour Day. Public holiday in The Bahamas Island Poets ...........................33 Classified Ads ....................... 47 6 St. Maarten Laser Regatta. www.smyc.com 6 – 7 Sailors’ Horoscope ................ 33 Advertisers’ Index .................47 The Saintes Regatta. [email protected] 7 FULL MOON 8 Queen’s Birthday (UK). Public holiday in Anguilla Caribbean Compass is published monthly by Grenada/Carriacou/Petite Martinique: Corpus Christi. Public holiday in many places Ad Sales & Distribution - Karen Maaroufi Compass Publishing Ltd., P.O. Box 175 BQ, 13 Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Cell: (473) 457-2151 Office: (473) 444-3222 Public holiday in Cayman Islands and Montserrat Tel: (784) 457-3409, Fax: (784) 457-3410 [email protected] (Queen’s Birthday UK celebrated) and BVI (Territory Day) [email protected] Martinique: Ad Sales & Distribution - Isabelle Prado Labour Day. Public holiday in Trinidad www.caribbeancompass.com Tel: (0596) 596 68 69 71, Mob: + 596 (0) 696 93 26 38 [email protected] 14 – 21 19th Annual Jamaica Ocho Rios Intl. Jazz Festival. Editor...........................................Sally Erdle [email protected] St. Lucia: Distribution - Lisa Kessell www.jamaicaculture.org/jazz Tel: (758) 484-0555, 20 Assistant Editor...................Elaine Ollivierre [email protected] St. Jean Pursuit Race, Martinique [email protected] 20 - 21 St. Maarten/St. Barths/Guadeloupe: Caribbean One-Design Keelboat Championships, St. Maarten. Advertising & Distribution........Tom Hopman Ad Sales - Stéphane Legendre www.tropicalsailloft.com [email protected] Mob: + 590 (0) 6 90 49 45 90 21 Summer Solstice Art, Design & Production......Wilfred Dederer [email protected] Distribution - Eric Bendahan 24 Battle of Carabobo Day. Public holiday in Venezuela [email protected] Tel: (599) 553 3850, [email protected] Accounting.................................Debra Davis 25 - 27 13th Annual St. Kitts Music Festival. www.stkittsmusicfestival.net St. Thomas/USVI: Distribution - Bryan Lezama [email protected] Tel: (340) 774 7931, [email protected] 26 – 29 Charlotteville Fisherman Festival, Tobago 28 - July 5 HIHO Windsurfing Week, BVI. www.go-hiho.com Compass Agents by Island: St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Ad Sales - Debra Davis, Tel: (784) 457-3527, [email protected] 29 Antigua: Ad Sales & Distribution - Lucy Tulloch Fisherman’s Birthday (St. Peter’s Day). 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No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication, except short excerpts for review purposes, may be made without written permission of Compass Publishing Ltd. Cover photos by Chris Doyle, of Nevis (inset) and Barbuda ISSN 1605 - 1998 brings the books from Florida free of charge, and Ann Street Mini Storage, which provides space to receive, sort and pack the books prior to shipping. In Grenada, arrangements were managed by Anita Sutton of Island Dreams yacht services, assisting Lillian Sylvester, Director of Libraries, Grenada Library Services. Cartons arrived in Carriacou from Grenada on the Amelia A ferry and were distributed by Info Natasha Lawrence, assisted by Sherwin Noel and Kennet Alexis. The Dominica Lions Club managed the distribution in Dominica, with Louisiana Dubique in & Updates charge. The Union Island books arrived from St. Vincent under the care of Heather Grant, Erika’s Marine Services. This is the ninth year Boaters for Books has collected and transported gently-used and new children’s Venezuela Navigation Notes Boaters for Books, Inc. is an active non-profit organiza- books to a growing number of English-speaking Melodye Pompa of the Caribbean Safety and tion based in Florida. Eastern Caribbean islands, including Anguilla, Bequia, Security Net reports: The channel markers at This year Boaters for Books shipped 115 cartons of Montserrat, St. Vincent, and Trinidad & Tobago, in Chichiriviche, Venezuela, are missing, and, with the clos- reading and library books to schools in Carriacou, addition to those receiving