Caribbean Compass Yachting Magazine - December 2021

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Luis Guillermo Inciarte, Secretary General of ONSA, says, “With this alliance, we
complement each other by adding the radio amateurs through the Venezuelan
Radio Club. This translates into an expansion of the scope of communication,
strengthening the service for reporting any emergency in aquatic areas, especially
those areas where telephone or data communication is practically non-existent.”
With this agreement, more than 5,000 active radio amateurs, present in 22
Venezuelan states, are being added through the circuits of the Radio Club
Venezolano. This agreement strengthens the initiatives undertaken by ONSA to
protect human life, expanding the possibility that an aquatic emergency call
reaches the receiver and translates into a search and rescue operation.
New Sailing YouTube Channel
Check out the new YouTube channel “Sailing With David Lyman.” He’s uploading
new material of interest to those sailing to and through the Eastern Caribbean, and
those still dreaming of doing so. He’s including video interviews with characters you
may have read about, like Chris Doyle, Libby Nicholson and others. He explains, in
detail, how to clear into places like Bermuda and St. Maarten, and how to prepare
for the offshore voyage to the Caribbean, which he’s done numerous times. There’s
a quick tour of the Leeward and Windward Islands, and even a tale of waiting in
Ste. Anne for his morning croissant to be delivered.
Here is a list of videos online:
• The Grand Tour, Part One - Cruising the Eastern Caribbean
• The Grand Tour, Part Two - the details
• A French Breakfast in Ste. Anne
• Covid Internet Research
• Bermuda entry policy
• St. Maarten entry policy
• Joan Conover and the Caribbean’s Coconut Telegraph
• Chris Doyle and how to navigate the islands this winter
Coming soon: The Offshore Voyage to the Caribbean
Log on to Youtube and search for “Sailing with David Lyman.”
Caribbean Writers’ Workshops & Retreat
Do you have a story to tell, a book to write, a memoir to draft, a children’s picture
book you want to develop, a series of articles for a magazine? We all have stories to
tell, but few ever get written. That may change this winter.
Author, photojournalist and workshop leader David Lyman is setting up a Writers’
Retreat with a series of workshops at Pineapple House, a cottage colony on the hill
above the Yacht Club in English Harbour, Antigua. The workshops are for writers and
photographers, published and unpublished, who want to spend a week or a month
perfecting their craft, finding their creative voice and developing a project within a
creative and supportive community. Each morning, participants read and show
their works-in-process, receiving honest feedback, suggestions and encouragement
for improvement.
Accommodations can be reserved at Pineapple House, or if living on a boat, drop
the hook off Pigeon Beach in English Harbour and take the dinghy ashore. And if
you can’t make it to Antigua this winter, you can join the workshops on Zoom.
David is a regular contributor to Cruising World and Caribbean Compass
magazines. His memoir, Seabee 71 in Chu Lai, published in 2019 by McFarland
Publishing, is about the 14 months he spent as a Navy photojournalist with a
construction battalion on deployment in Vietnam in 1967 (www.SeaBee71.com).
Visit www.DHLyman.com for more information on the Writers’ Workshops & Retreat.
Welcome Aboard!
In this issue of Compass we welcome new advertiser Bequia Threadworks, on page 31.
Good to have you with us!
50 Ways to Get Ashore Challenge
(With apologies to Paul Simon)
I met an old cruiser on the shore the other day
As I came in what I thought was the usual way
But as I did he interrupted me to say
There must be 50 ways to get ashore.
Just row for the beach, Cheech,
Swim for the pier, dear,
Paddle your board, Lord,
And get yourself in.
Launch the canoe, Lou,
Climb on the raft, Taft,
Pole the pirogue, rogue,
And get yourself in.
Try the pea pod, Todd,
Grab the toy ship, Skip,
Inflate the pool toy, Roy,
And get yourself in.
— TR and SE
Makeshift raft in Cuba
In the May 2021 issue of Compass Jim Hutchinson wrote, “Pulled up on the
beach are a plastic beach kayak, an inflatable kayak, a surfboard with a
paddle, and a hard rowing dinghy. An outboard powered inflatable is nosed
onto the beach with a line ashore. I pull my strange little sailing canoe up among
them. There must be 50 ways to get ashore.”
And then he asked, “Really?”
He challenged Compass readers to send in photos of how you get ashore, to
see if 50 different ways could be found.
So send us a photo of how YOU get ashore — set your phone or camera to the
largest image setting, snap your getting-ashore vehicle of choice, and send the
picture to sally@caribbeancompass.com.
If we succeed in getting different 50 ways, your photos will appear in a full-page
montage in the March 2022 issue of Compass.
So far we’ve received photos of 14 different ways — there must be many more!
The challenge closes on January 31st, 2022.
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