When we were on our Antigua Flotilla in November, two of the other boat Captains brought along Ipads with Navionics charts. The ease of use and big screen graphics was really great. We find when sailing in places we’ve never been, having two GPS charts is much better than one. We set the one that [...]

The Channel Islands Harbor is set to be dredged beginning Monday, December 6th. Not a moment to soon according to our calculations. The beach on the East Jetty is expansive these days and on any day I watch “soft groundings” by unsuspecting mariners here on the West side.

Tomas, the nineteenth named storm of the Atlantic 2010 hurricane season tore up Barbados last night and has now strengthened into a category 1 hurricane. He is poised to plow through the Windward Islands between St Vincent and St Lucia. Once he gets West of the islands it is uncertain what the storm track will [...]