Seventeen Boats – Spirited Sailing Jolly Harbour Antigua, Feb 08 – 10, 2019: An action packed Regatta with a variety of party nights brought together sailors, visitors and residents of Jolly Harbour for an unparalleled weekend. Entries came from seventeen mixed class boats. The Olympic designed courses had been fine-tuned for more challenging racing, starting outside […]
With no fanfare at all, the Nos Ku Nos fishing tournament, that took place February 7th to 10th, was a great success! Fishermen arrived from Curacao and Aruba to compete with the local Fishermen in Bonaire for the Catch and Release Billfish tournament. If you did not happen to be in the marina, or watching […]
On Wednesday 23rd January, a record number of 74 boats representing 8 countries paraded through the St. George’s harbor and lined up for the Republic Bank Bimini Start to the left of the cruise ship terminal. The 2019 Budget Marine Spice Island Billfish Tournament (BMSIBT) began the day before and continued for three more exciting […]
The national Barracuda Waterpolo Teams is washing lots of cars to raise enough funds to represent their island Bonaire in the Carifta Games in Barbados which is going to be held from April 20th to 23rd. Budget Marine Bonaire is helping a hand by making their location available for the car wash each month to […]
The annual Budget Marine High Tide series at the Antigua Yacht Club attracted a high quality entry and produced high quality competition. Winner of the A class was a very young team from the National Sailing Academy sailing the Cork 1720 “Spirit” whilst the B class was won by a helmsman over 80 years old, […]
The Bonaire Waterfront Events, powered by Budget Marine Bonaire made for a great day by the Kas di Regatta. The day’s events included a 4 mile /6.4k Walk lead by the Lion’s Club. Zorg Groep BES was available to check the blood sugar for any participants interested. The Sprint Triathlon (a 1/4 triathlon is our […]
In response to a request from Betty Suite of the Vessigny Viking Sailing School, Budget Marine Trinidad management was happy to donate 2 gallons of International antifouling for the yacht McInvan, a Pearson 30, which Betty has acquired and which is currently being refurbished at TTSA. The purpose of this project is to provide dinghy […]
On November 11th 2018 at 6 am, five Aruban swimmers of the Aruban Dolphins Swimming Club started swimming from Piedras Negras in Falcon State, Venezuela to Aruba (approx. 28.5km) to collect funds and generate awareness for ‘Koningin Wilhelmina Fonds’, a non-profit organization that offers support to cancer patients and works for the prevention of this […]
35 Optimist from St Maarten, Antigua, St Kitts and St Barts participated in the 13thAnnual Sol St Maarten optimist Championship, a record number of entrants for the event. Antiguan sailor Theodore Spencer excelled over the weekend and became the overall winner of this regional youth sailing event, sponsored by Sol Petroleum for all 13 years. […]
During October, Trinidad experienced the worst flooding in 40 years, with people in the southern parts the most affected. Main roadways were cut off and many homes flooded. Budget Marine Trinidad promptly came forward to help, partnering with the office of the ODPM, the company donated a 9.5FT AB Dinghy and loaned a second Dinghy […]