Etikett: English

  • Frigate bird colony on Barbuda

    Frigate bird colony on Barbuda

    In the northern part of Barbuda is one of the world’s largest colonies of Frigate birds. To visit it we first took a rather expensive trip by taxi from Shack-A-Kai to Codrington, pay a fee to be allowed to visit the nature reserve and finally a boat trip to the mangrove swamp where the colony…

  • Fantastic Cocoa Point

    Fantastic Cocoa Point

    Finally back to Barbuda and Cocoa Point where Princess Diana Beach is located, the most paradisiacal beach we have visited so far here in the Caribbean. We have planned to stay at Barbuda until we have to return to Antigua to pick up our new sails in a few weeks.

  • Barbuda, here we come!

    Barbuda, here we come!

    Now when we’re back in Antigua and Barbuda, we want to relive last season’s highlight, Barbuda, and prepare for a multi-week stay there. In the meantime, we also take the opportunity to check out the surroundings of English Harbor and are reminded that death is also present in paradise.

  • Sail delamination

    Sail delamination

    First, the mainsail begins to delaminate and about a week later we discover that the genoa also begins to delaminate. This blog is about the difficulty of getting new sails and why our relatively new EPEX sails are delaminated.

  • 250 M to Antigua

    250 M to Antigua

    Most Caribbean countries still require quarantine or are completely closed to visitors. Of the countries that are open and that we would like to sail to, Antigua is closest. It is about 250 M there and with the prevailing wind, it takes us about 1.5 days to sail that stretch non-stop.