A CRUISER'S VIEW OF BEQUIA - Caribbean Compass

NOVEMBER 2008 CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 6
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…home nation ID card; US$500 deposit in guarantee posted with the Immigration
service; US$100 charges per person; copy of electronic paid return ticket (no specification
as to where or why); proof of a contractual relationship with a yacht club or
marina (the nature of the contract is not specified); and a letter from the captain or
owner of the vessel, making him responsible for the other people with visas.
Eight Bells
Long-time Caribbean cruiser Pam Jost passed away on October 1st after a six-
Pam Jost, adventurous, fun loving and free spirited, was typical of many cruisers.
Her homeport yacht club has established a Blue Water Cruising Trophy in her name
STEVE JOST
month fight with esophageal cancer. Pam and her husband Steve sailed aboard
Viva and frequently shared their extensive cruising adventures, highlighted by
Steve’s superlative photos, in the pages of Caribbean Compass. A Celebration of
Life service was held for Pam at the Josts' homeport Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club in
California on October 18th.
A Blue Water Cruising Trophy has been established and will be presented in Pam’s
name to recognize all of the CBYC blue water cruising sailors, past and present. In
her memory, a donation can be made for the Pam Jost Blue Water Cruising Award.
Checks should be made and mailed to Jolene Burton, 2784 Hollyridge Dr., Los
Angeles, CA 90068, and marked for the Pam Jost Trophy Fund.
Condolences can be sent to Steve at jostphoto@aol.com.
Cruisers Site-ings
October 2008 marked the second year since “the cruisers’ friend” in Trinidad, Jesse
James, launched his Members Only taxi service website:
www.membersonlymaxitaxi.com. Congratulations, Jesse!
While many people in the Caribbean were wondering just what effect the seas
generated by Hurricane Omar (see story on page 8) were going to have on their
island or coastline, a surfer’s website displayed great computer-model graphics of
the projected wave patterns — check out magicseaweed.com.
Cruisers Treat Young Readers to a Sail
Aubrey Millard reports: Four cruising sailboats recently took 29 young Grenadians,
ages seven to 15, plus some parents and teachers, for a two-hour sail. A few cruisers
anchored around Prickly Bay and Hog Island have been volunteering Saturday
mornings, working on reading and literacy skills with the Mt. Airy Young Readers
group, a community program led by Jeanne and Everest Pascal. On September
13th, the reading group was invited to go sailing on Wild Cat, a 38-foot catamaran
(thanks, Pam and Chris), Blue Tang, a 42-foot Hallberg Rassey (thanks, Guy and
Kevin), Debonair, a 30-foot cutter (thanks, Larry and Deborah), and Veleda IV, an
Ontario 32-foot sloop (thanks, Aubrey and Judy). Extra life jackets were provided by
other cruisers, so there would be sufficient for all.
The group was returned by dinghy to the public beach near the Calabash
resort in Prickly Bay, where all enjoyed swimming and a picnic with refreshments
provided by cruisers and parents. Many of the children enjoyed swimming with
the life jackets on, a good opportunity for them to become accustomed to
them. On the beach, the children were entertained by Jeanne with a spelling
quiz on nautical terms. A large nautical Word Find puzzle was made up by Judy
Millard of Veleda IV, for the kids to work on at home. (We’ll share this in
a future issue of Compass!)
There is a large cruising community at anchor and in the several marinas in the
bays on the south end of Grenada. (Actually there are far more boats at anchor
than in the marinas.) A recent count of boats in Mount Hartman Bay, Clarkes Court
Bay, Hog Island, Prickly Bay, the Lagoon, and the anchorage north of Grand Anse
Beach indicated there were more than 170 boats at anchor, plus 50 docked in the
various marinas (Clarkes Court, Whisper Cove, Phare Blue, Martin’s, and Prickly Bay
Marinas). These figures do not include the many boats on the hard in Grenada
Marine and Spice Island Marine, or the boats in the Grenada Yacht Club, Port Louis,
or True Blue.
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Grenada