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| Regatta With LIME |
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Outside the Fat Turtle restaurant in St Thomas’s Yacht Haven Grande, megayachts loomed, each hulking over the next. Sitting under their glow, Fred Ruebeck and I discussed a much different boat, ...
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| Reef Check |
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What To Do if You Spot a Lionfish - Non-native, Indo-Pacific lionfish have invaded the BVI. These voracious, venomous hunters do not have any natural predators in the BVI, and they’r...
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| Yard Talk |
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DNA Detection to Deter Dinghy Thieves
Hands up anyone who's had their dinghy stolen. Wow, so many! So hands up anyone who's ever said, a propos of said thefts, “Why doesn't someone do...
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| Editor's Notes |
 | With summer around the corner, things traditionally start to lighten a little bit on the season as the weather heats up. In this issue, our editor David delves deep into the roots of sailing and advice, as an instructor that’s all David will tell you—it’s simple and good advice. Over the next couple months, we explore our traditional annual issues of diving and alternative sports...
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| Skipper's Tips |
 | Be Nice to Your Boat - Living as we do, surrounded by boats of all types from the gorgeous to the grotesque, it's easy to forget how precious each boat is to its owner. Every charter boat, identical though it might seem to its siblings, has a special place in somebody's heart—even if that somebody is a corporation. I know this because I recently spent a few days helping ou...
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| Provisioning |
 | Nutmeg - During a recent visit to my favourite spice store in the States, the employee at the checkout was recounting her tour of the company’s distribution facility. She proudly told me that the spices in the shop were so fresh because the company did all of its own grinding and shipped spices to its stores frequently, in small batches. The one exception was nutmeg. “Why n...
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| Guy Eldridge |
 | RBVIYC Loses Capt of Sailing - A crowd of sailors, families and spectators stood in silence at the St Thomas Yacht Club as Chris Haycraft and Sharn Downing exchanged a faded BVI flag for a fresh one in honour of BVI sailor Guy Eldridge the day after he had a fatal accident at the Rolex Regatta. Eldridge’s Luxury Girl crewmates and other attendees watched the new flag rise to half...
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| Shoreside Review |
 | D' Best Cup - Could be, I think as I sip coffee with Phillip Fenty, one of the proud owners of the coffee shops in Road Town and Trellis Bay. Whenever I grab a coffee in Road Town, it always takes me a while to figure out which flavour I want, and no matter what I ultimately decide, it goes down as the right choice. Thing is, I haven’t really studied it before, and I have been...
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| EDGE |
 | Cruising Cloth: The Evolution of Sailmaking Sail technology is evolving at a rapid pace these days, driven by intense competition between sailmakers. Where just a few years ago the material of choice for all types of sailing was a polyester known largely as Dacron (its DuPont trademark) in the US, Terylene in the UK (an ICI trademark) and generically by its chemical name, polyethylene terepht...
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