Tag Archive 'flotilla'

Dec 04 2008

Montserrat Erupts

Published by under Random Thawt

The island of Montserrat has been wracked by it’s volcano that began erupting in 1995. Tonight, once again, there was an explosion and pyroclastic flow. It is reported that the eruption occurred without warning in that there was no significant seismic precursor activities leading up to today. Still, over the past weeks and months a [...]

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Nov 19 2008

SailTime Annual BVI Flotilla a Success !

Published by under SailTime

SailTime Members from around the world converged on the British Virgin Islands last week for our annual Novice to Captain Graduation Flotilla. Members from the UK and North America chartered 12 boats and departed from Roadtown, Tortola to cruise what is, quite simply, the Disneyland of sailing. I can’t say enough good things about this [...]

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Oct 14 2008

Omar Threatens the Virgin Islands

Published by under Random Thawt

Tropical Storm Omar wants to imitate Hurricane Lenny of 1999 and very well could. The difference this time is that Omar is still only a tropical storm while Lenny had become a hurricane moving West when it decided to turn around and head East. This caught many people off guard as they thought the storm [...]

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