Caribbean Compass Yachting Magazine - October 2021

OCTOBER
CALENDAR
4 Public holiday in St. Lucia (Thanksgiving Day)
9 – 15 Pure Grenada Dive Fest. http://puredivinggrenada.com/divefest
11 Public holiday in the Bahamas (National Heroes’ Day),
and in Puerto Rico and USVI (Columbus Day)
17 (TBC) Tobago Blue Food Festival
20 FULL MOON
23 (TBC) Willy T Virgin’s Cup Race, BVI. www.royalbviyc.org
25 Public holiday in Grenada (Thanksgiving Day)
27 Public holiday in St. Vincent & the Grenadines (Independence Day)
28 Jounen Kweyol (International Creole Day), St. Lucia and Dominica
29 – 31 (TBC) World Creole Music Festival, Roseau, Dominica.
caribbeanevents.com/iwe-event/world-creole-music-festival
30 – 31 St. Maarten Optimist Championship.
www.smyc.com/optimist-championship
30 – 1 Nov (TBC) Haiti Cup fishingboat regatta, Cap Haitien, Haiti.
www.haitisailingcup.com
TBA
TBA
Bonaire Regatta. www.infobonaire.com
Columbus Day Regatta, St. Thomas, USVI.
https://stthomasyachtclub.org/sailing/regattas/columbus-day-regatta
NOVEMBER
1 Public holiday in Antigua (Independence Day)
and in some other places (All Saints’ Day)
1 Start of Salty Dawg Fall Rally from Virginia, USA, to Abacos or Antigua.
www.saltydawgsailing.org
3 Public holiday in Dominica (Independence Day)
3 - 6 BVI Charter Yacht Show, Tortola. www.crewedyachtsbvi.com
4 Public holiday in Trinidad & Tobago (Divali)
7 Start of ARC+Cape Verdes from Canary Islands to Grenada.
www.worldcruising.com
7 – 10 USVI Charter Show, St. Thomas.
https://vipca.org/usvi-charter-yacht-show
10 – 14 St. Barth Gourmet Festival. http://saintbarthgourmetfestival.com/en/us
17 – 21 St. Barth Cata Cup. https://stbarthcatacup.com/gbr
19 FULL MOON
19 Jolly Harbour Yacht Club Annual Regatta, Antigua.
www.jhycantigua.com
21 Start of ARC from Canary Islands to St. Lucia. www.worldcruising.com
26 - 28 Mango Bowl Regatta, St. Lucia. www.facebook.com/MangoBowl
30 Public holiday in Barbados (Independence Day)
TBA Barbados National Dinghy Championships.
www.barbadosyachtclub.com
All information was correct to the best of our knowledge
at the time this issue of Compass went to press.
But plans change rapidly these days, so contact event organizers
directly for confirmation. If you would like a nautical
or tourism event listed FREEin our monthly calendar,
please send the name and date(s) of the event and the name
and contact information of the organizing body to
sally@caribbeancompass.com
MERIDIAN PASSAGE
OF THE MOON
Crossing the channels between Eastern Caribbean islands, an ebb tide carries
you off to leeward and a strong flood tide creates lumpy seas, so crossing with a
favorable tide is faster and more comfortable. The table below, courtesy Don
Street (www.street-iolaire.com), showing the local time of the meridian passage
(or zenith) of the moon for this and next month, will help you calculate the tides.
Water generally tries to run toward the moon. The flood tide starts running
eastward soon after moonrise, continues to run east until about an hour after the
moon reaches its zenith (see TIME below) and then ebbs 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.
The first hour after moonrise, the westerly current is barely negated. The
second hour the flood tide is stronger, the third and fourth hour it’s strongest,
then it eases off in the fifth and sixth hours. The maximum tide is three or four
days after the new and full moons.
October
DATE TIME
1 0747
2 0838
3 0928
4 1018
5 1107
6 1156
7 1246
8 1340
9 1436
10 1535
11 1636
12 1738
13 1837
14 1935
15 2025
16 2113
17 2158
18 2241
19 2330
20 0005
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2021
21 0005 FULL MOON
22 0047
23 0131
24 0218
25 0308
26 0356
27 0447
28 0538
29 0628
30 0718
November
1 0854
2 0952
3 1032
4 1124
5 1220
6 1320
7 1413
8 1527
9 1630
10 1728
www.caribbeancompass.com
FREE on-line version!
11 1822
12 1911
13 1957
14 2040
15 2122
16 2203
17 2245
18 2329
19 0014 FULL MOON
20 0014
21 0102
22 0151
23 0242
24 0332
25 0422
26 0511
27 0558
28 0645
29 0731
30 0818
OCTOBER 2021 CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 35
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in Don Street’s Caribbean pilots
When cruising the Caribbean be sure
to have Street’s guides on board as
your primary PILOT. Only Street has:
Inter-island and harbour pilotage
Tidal information
All eastern Caribbean anchorages
Street’s pilotage information is timeless
and is your key to a quiet night’s
sleep in unspoilt anchorages!
Other guides are best for shore-side
information & are provided to the charter
fleets so what harbours & anchorages
they do include are more crowded.
Street’s pilots include: south east & east
coast Grenada, the south & east coast of
Carriacou, & the east coasts of Cannouan
& Martinique. These are not covered
by other guides but Street considers
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now Venezuela is no longer safe.
The perfect pilotage companion
for all the other guides
Order online
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