Caribbean Compass Yachting Magazine - November 2016

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Both had an impact on their chosen worlds for similar reasons — they brought to
them high energy, panache, and a sometimes disconcerting directness of speech.”
Don Street tells Compass, “Wild Bill survived in business all those years. I always said he
was not a crook — but he sailed very close to the wind. Sometimes he was caught
aback, but then he would bear off, get his sails full again and be off to the races!”
Bill Stevens had a formative impact on the charter trade, as well as on many people’s
lives, that has shaped the Caribbean yachting industry we know today.
donation was made possible by the contributions of 180 guests, who bought many raffle
tickets to have a chance of winning prizes donated by local businesses. Aqua
Swim Club Launched in Marigot, St. Lucia
Judith Verity reports: The Marigot Swim Club, offering free professional swimming lessons
for kids in the area of Marigot Bay, St Lucia, started on September 22nd. There’s
no Olympic-size pool in Marigot, so the sponsors decided to build one on the calm
water of inner Marigot Bay. Marigot residents and visitors were surprised to see a
three-lane pool appear unexpectedly by the Rainforest Hideaway restaurant dock!
Mania Adventures added to the amount by donating part of the proceeds of the Pink
Sunset Sail tickets to both Foundations. This year three sailing catamarans — Lambada,
Tango and Golden Eagle IV — sailed into the sunset for this meaningful event.
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Certified instructor, national lifeguard and lifesaving coach Ezra Small helped
design the programme and will be running it with the assistance of another coach
and volunteers from CMS. Sponsored by Complete Marine Services and the
Rainforest Hideaway Restaurant, the sessions will be held every week on Mondays
and Wednesdays at 4:00PM.
Contact judith@marigotbay.com for more information.
St. Maarten’s Pink Sunset Sail Raised $$ for Cancer Awareness
The second annual Pink Sunset Sail, organized in St. Maarten on October 1st by
Aqua Mania Adventures as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, was an enormous
success. Over US$3,000 was raised by the event. Funds are being donated to
the Positive and Elektralyets Foundations in support of breast cancer awareness. The
Assault of Yachtsman at Chateaubelair, St. Vincent
Although the frequency of crimes against yachts at Chateaubelair, St. Vincent,
which has been the scene of a number of crimes against yachts in the past, has
decreased recently, on the evening of October 10th there was an assault.
Russian sailor Andrey Khokhlov and a friend were en route from Bequia to St. Barts
aboard Andrey’s 44-foot sailboat, Kiprida, when they stopped at this northernmost
port of entry in St. Vincent & the Grenadines. They were returning from shore to the
yacht when three men in a rowboat, all armed with cutlasses, approached their
dinghy. One struck Andrey in the arm with a cutlass, but then the rowboat
swamped. Back aboard the yacht, Andrey phoned a friend who in turn phoned the
SVG Coast Guard, who arrived in Chateaubelair within 20 minutes. Andrey received
medical treatment, and gave the police a report the next day.
The rowboat, which had been stolen, was recovered, and a body found floating
in Chateaubelair Bay a day and half later is believed to be that of one of the assailants,
who apparently drowned. Two other men, Ezra Harry and Simeon François from
the nearby village of Petit Bordel, have been charged with attempted robbery,
malicious wounding and theft in relation to the incident. As this issue of Compass
goes to press, they have been granted the possibility of bail but are still in custody.
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