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Entries have already come in from Grenada, Carriacou, Trinidad, Barbados, the UK,
the USA and Austria.
The Regatta Village at Port Louis Marina will have everything your crew may need
— easy access to sailing courses, calm nights inside the lagoon, Customs and
Immigration on hand, a pool and beach, the Victory Restaurant and Yolo Bar, a
convenience store and nearby fuel dock, marine repair services, chandleries and
provisioning stores. Registered boats get a 50-percent discount on dock space for
up to ten days over the regatta period; contact danny.donelan@cnportlouismarina.
com to ensure your place.
Online registration via www.grenadasailingweek.com is US$60 if paid by December 31st.
United Insurance Sponsors Grenada
Work Boat Regatta
United Insurance is Title Sponsor for the Grenada Sailing Festival Work Boat Regatta
2013. The long-time supporter moves into the central role for the 20th Anniversary of
the Grenada Sailing Festival, to be held February 1st through 3rd.
Grenada Sailing Festival has been proud to run the national Work Boat Regatta for
20 consecutive years — even staging the event only four months after Hurricane
Ivan. Over these years the event has become important not only to the island’s sailing
communities, but to all Grenadians and overseas visitors too. It is a significant
part of Grenada Sailing Festival’s remit to support the continued development of
the tradition of sailing and
boat-building in Grenada
and its sister islands.
Continued support is
being pledged by the
Grenada Board of
Tourism, Budget Marine,
Camper & Nicholsons
Marinas, Grenada
Breweries Ltd, True Blue
Bay Resort’s Dodgy Dock,
LIME, Coca Cola and
Etang Water, Grenlec,
Courts and Island Dreams
Yacht Services.
Event organizers will work
with the Grenada Sailing
Association and Budget
Marine to stage the Grenada Sailing Festival Junior Dinghy Sailing Championship on
February 2nd. Grenada Sailing Festival thanks Budget Marine for its continued support
to the Junior Sailing Programme.
The United Insurance Work Boat Regatta will be staged on February 2nd and 3rd
on Grand Anse Beach, after a Sunset Lime on the evening of February 1st to welcome
participating sailors from Carriacou, Gouyave, Petite Martinique, Sauteurs
and Woburn.
For more information visit www.grenadasailingfestival.com and follow Grenada
Sailing Festival on Facebook.
BOB GRIESER
MERIDIAN PASSAGE
OF THE MOON
DECEMBER - JANUARY 2013
Crossing the channels between Caribbean islands with a favorable tide will
make your passage faster and more comfortable. The table below, courtesy Don
Street, author of Street’s Guides and compiler of Imray-Iolaire charts, which
shows the time of the meridian passage (or zenith) of the moon for this AND next
month, will help you calculate the tides.
Water, Don explains, generally tries to run toward the moon. The tide starts
running to the east soon after moonrise, continues to run east until about an
hour after the moon reaches its zenith (see TIME below) and then runs westward.
From just after the moon’s setting to just after its nadir, the tide runs eastward;
and from just after its nadir to soon after its rising, the tide runs westward; i.e.
the tide floods from west to east. Times given are local.
Note: the maximum tide is 3 or 4 days after the new and full moons.
For more information, see “Tides and Currents” on the back of all Imray Iolaire
charts. Fair tides!
December 2012
DATE TIME
1 0144
2 0231
3 0318
4 0404
5 0449
6 0533
7 0622
8 0710
9 0802
10 0857
11 0957
12 1059
13 1204 (new moon)
14 1307
15 1407
16 1503
17 1555
18 1644
19 1730
20 1815
21 1859
22 1944
23 2029
24 2116
25 2203
26 2252
27 2340
28 0000 (full moon)
29 0028
30 0116
31 0202
January 2013
1 0248
2 0353
3 0417
4 0506
5 0554
6 0646
7 0741
8 0840
9 0942
10 1044
11 1146 (new moon)
12 1245
13 1341
14 1433
15 1522
16 1608
17 1654
18 1740
19 1825
20 1912
21 1959
22 2047
23 2135
24 2223
25 2311
26 2359
27 0000 (full moon)
28 0045
29 0132
30 0218
31 0304
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