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Sailing in St Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada

September 12, 2017/by Grant Headifen

Sailing in the Grenadines includes the beautiful islands in between Saint Vincent and Grenada. They make up part of the island of St Vincent and the Grenadines and the islands north of Grenada although neither the island of St Vincent or Grenada are part of the Grenadine islands.

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days – day 1

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

This is the start to a 10-day blog series sailing on a Lagoon 450 with the yacht charter company BVI Yacht Charters based in Road Town, British Virgin Islands. We used approximately the 10-day itinerary in the above google maps animation.

Drone Tour of Road Town Harbour BVI

May 19, 2015/by Grant Headifen

Here is something pretty cool that we found. It’s Rick Moore’s drone tour of the Road Town Harbour in the BVIs.

Bareboat Chartering in Martinique

June 17, 2014/by Grant Headifen

Bareboat chartering in Martinique is a hidden treasure in plan site. It is a big island in about the middle of the island chain between the British Virgin Islands and Grenada. It is a French territory and so if you like chocolate croissants and sailing – Martinique is a good match for you.

Sailing in St. Vincent

June 17, 2014/by Grant Headifen

If you like this post – please LIKE it via facebook and G+1 it – thanks it helps us grow The guide books give St. Vincent a bad wrap and many people have told us to give it a miss. Our plan to sail from St. Lucia to Bequia Island however was not quite going […]

Sailing Vacation Attitude

June 16, 2014/by Grant Headifen

Southern St Lucia is known for the swarming and pushy “official guides”. Each one claiming that they are the official. Years ago when I visited by land and sea I was overwhelmed and was glad to leave.

Chronicles of a Sailing Yacht Charter Week in the BVI’s: Day 1

October 6, 2009/by Grant Headifen

To follow over the next week, are the chronicles of this year’s yacht charter sailing vacation trip by NauticEd staff and friends. Although we’ve sailed through out the Caribbean and Mediterranean, once again we elected the BVI.

Yacht Charter trip to the British Virgin Islands

September 12, 2009/by Grant Headifen

As we prepare for our yacht charter sailing vacation to the British Virgin Islands this month, I want to post a few emails that we are sending out to the group that is going. Below is one from my wife discussing provisioning.

Christmas in the Caribbean

November 25, 2008/by Grant Headifen

Two christmas’ ago, 5 of us went to Guadeloupe Island for Christmas. We chartered a sunsail 44 ft Beneteau and sailed for a week around the local islands of Guadeloupe, Marie Galante and Dominica