Caribbean Compass Yachting Magazine - April 2020

april 2020 CARIBBEAN COMPAss pAGE 6
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They anchor all over the place, they don’t seem orderly, and they are hard to control.
To be honest, we haven’t always done much to earn their trust. There were so
many abandoned yachts in the Le Marin/Ste. Anne area of Martinique that new
laws had to be written to deal with the situation. In addition, we tend too anchor
DOING
IT RIGHT
too close to the beach for many a beachgoer’s comfort.
The functionaries’ response to this is often to make yachts use moorings as a means
of control. Unfortunately, it is rare for functionaries to sit down with yachtspeople to
come up with a workable plan. Thus it is with Les Anses D’Arlet.
Once more, the town is planning to try to regulate anchoring and mooring. In
Grande Anse D’Arlet they have laid
52 moorings on the north side of the
bay. The two inner and northern rows
for yachts up to eight metres; the
outer five take yachts up to 20 metres
and the rest are for yachts up to 15
metres. The south side has 45 moorings:
the inner three rows are for
boats up to eight metres, the rest are
for boats up to 15 metres. If you do
not use a mooring, there will be no
anchoring within 300 metres of the
shore, or anywhere in line with all the
moorings. This leaves an anchoring
area for larger boats out in the middle
of the bay, west of the moorings.
In Petit Anse D’Arlet they have laid 34
moorings on the east side of the bay.
Fourteen of these are for boats up to
eight metres, and 20 for boats up to 15
metres. You may anchor farther down
towards Anse Chaudiere. You may not
anchor less than 300 meters from the
beach or the northern shore. Anse
Chaudiere will be an okay place to
anchor, but large boats will have to
anchor way out.
In high season there may not be
enough moorings to satisfy demand.
The officials plan to have website where
you can book and pay for a mooring.
As this issue of Compass goes to
press, the moorings do not yet have
pick-up lines, and no one seems to
know when the system may start. Until
then people anchor wherever they
like, as before.
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