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In Martinique


Beautiful sunny day in Marin, Martinique today. We're awaiting parts of Alex family to finally arrive here this afternoon and then to leave with them for a week of sailing in St Vincent and the Grenadines. I guess it will be quite quiet here in the blog for the next few days but I'll try to give you an update if and when I find the time. For now it's all about family time and quality relaxation. Have a good weekend you all.

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Boat of the day - Drumbeat


This is one impressive yacht we ran across the other day in Le Marin, Martinique. S/Y Drumbeat, a luxurious superyacht produced by Alloy Yachts. The 174 ft ketch was constructed and launched in New Zeeland in 2002, according to the constructor's website, and has a total sail-area of 1139 m2/12.220 sq ft. Beautiful, isn't she? /T

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Plans and wonderings

We are based in Martinique for a while longer. As this is France and EU, it makes it easy for us to sort out administrative tasks, get shipments to arrive safely and other things are easy to sort out here and has to get done before we’re ready to move on again. Might be we'll have the time to revisit St Lucia once again before we head up North, would be wonderful as we haven't had the chance to visit the Pitons and Soufrière as yet. Our plan thereafter is to set sail towards Dominica and Goudaloupe in the end of this month and perhaps spend some days/weeks in Antigua and St Barths in April/May before we return back down South where we'll most probably spend the hurricane season. Or maybe we skip the most Northern parts of the windward/leeward islands and sail on straight towards South and spend a longer time in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Mustique, Bequia, Grenada, Tobago and thereafter the ABC's for some weeks? We can't really make up our mind.

Caribbean, as far as we have understood, is beautiful and colorful, a bit inspiring, and the light here is more than spectacular. The Caribbean islands we've seen so far might not be as secluded and private and not totally as paradisish and lush as some parts of Asia or the Indian Ocean as we know it, or might be we haven’t found those hidden gems as yet? Search continues. One question for you who've been around the world: What are your absolute most favorite, dreamlike, unexploited paradise in the Caribbean sea? And we're not looking for places where you'll find 250 charter boats anchored on the same spot and beaches overcrowded with tourists, no it is the quietness and privacy combined with a dreamlike atmosphere and a breathtaking nature and sea life we're after. Or do we really have to get out in the Pacific to find that?

And then another question: since we've already decided to stay around here in Central/South America for the rest of the year before we head out in the Pacific, we're also keen of finding the perfect place for putting the boat, and ourselves, for the hurricane season. So far we have these options on our list: Grenada, Trinidad and Brazil. Have any of you spent the hurricane season in any of these places and what are your experiences with them? Is Grenada really a safe place for the boat during the tropical storms and what about the ABC islands?

Thankful for your thoughts.

/Taru and Alex

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Last night of the carnival

We kind of ignored the carnival this week which has been going on for five days or such and we decided to go out only on the last night. Too bad for us that the final nights celebration ended already around 10pm as people finally* would get back to work on the morning of today. That didn't stop us (me) from dancing to the last zouk beats playing on the beach last night though. Here's some retro zouk love music for you all, straight from Martinique.

*I'm saying finally not for the fact that the carnival is over, but because we're waiting for shipments and packages to arrive and finally the postal service is working again.

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