Caribbean Compass Yachting Magazine - November 2021

KEN DYER
The Caribbean’s Monthly Look at Sea & Shore
NOVEMBER 2021 • ISSUE 314
CATHY SACHS
ON THE COVER:
In this issue, sailing directions guru Don Street looks at voyaging to the Lesser Antilles
three ways — from Panama, from the US East Coast and transatlantic.
See stories on pages 15, 18 and 20. Photo of sailing off St. Lucia by Hauke Dressler.
Reef Respect Bequia dive moorings …11
Rally Roundup Who’s coming this year? …14
Caribbean-Bound from three directions …15, 18, 20
WORLD CRUISING CLUB BIRGIT HACKL
Info & Updates....................... 5
Business Briefs........................ 8
Regatta News........................ 12
Book Review.......................... 26
Movie Review........................ 27
The Caribbean Sky............... 28
Island Birds............................. 30
Meet Marine Life................... 31
DEPARTMENTS
Look Out For.......................... 32
Cooking with Cruisers........... 33
Readers’ Forum..................... 34
Calendar of Events............... 35
Meridian Passage................. 35
Caribbean Market Place..... 36
Classified Ads........................ 38
Advertisers Index.................. 38
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Cruise with a Cat And we don’t mean multihull …22
Catching Up with a sailing family …24
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