The Carriacou Children’s Education Fund (CCEF) is a nonprofit organization driven by an informal, voluntary group of individuals on visiting yachts from around the world, and a number of concerned local businessmen and women who benefit from the presence of the visiting yachts. Since 2000, CCEF has conducted fund raising activitieswith which they have fund […]
The 3rd annual Sailability Super Sunday was held on the 11th of March in Antigua and it was the biggest Sailability event to date. Sailability is sailing for the disabled. It is a very unique sailing activity in the Caribbean and the only organization on Antigua that offers recreational activity for people with a disability, […]
A highly competitive Regatta with a variety of party nights bought together sailors, visitors and residents of Jolly Harbour for an unparalleled weekend. Entries came from eighteen mixed class boats. The Olympic designed courses had been fine-tuned for more challenging racing, starting outside Five Islands Bay. Image copyright Henry Trembecki This year the spirited weather […]
The Trinidad and Tobago Game Fishing Association hosted its annual Budget Marine Wahoo Blowout tournament the 24th & 25th of February 2018. The tournament attracted 10 boats this year comprising of 46 anglers who, despite rough seas, braved the inclement weather in a show of good sportsmanship. Although the Budget Marine Wahoo Blowout tournament focuses […]
The 49thannual Budget Marine Spice Island Billfish Tournament is the longest running continuous sport fishing tournament in the Southern Caribbean. The tournament experienced its first scare since the inception of the tournament, having one of the vessels GODDA GO out of Trinidad and Tobago sink during the last day of the competition. Luckily no one […]
The Budget Marine Spice Isle Billfish Tournament is held every year around the month of January over four days. The tournament has three days of fishing with one rest day before the last. This year the tournament is held from January 24th to January 28th 2018. The general buzz of the tournament comes to life […]
After a very succesful Sailing Regatta and Triathlon held for the first time last year, Budget marine Bonaire stepped up its game this year by adding a Santa Hat Walk and a 5k run. The Santa Hat walk was led by a pickup truck blasting Christmas and dance energy songs and included a lot of […]
The Budget Marine High Tide series in 2017 turned out to be well organized and highly competitive with the closest finish 8 seconds apart. Trade wind conditions with stiff winds (14 to 19 knots) in the first two days were followed by challenging winds gusting to 24 knots inside the harbour and gusting to 30 […]
The Course de L’Alliance was the first post-Irma regatta in the Caribbean to continue the spirit even with a very reduced five-strong fleet. The Regatta kicked off with registration and the skipper’s briefing at the Yacht Club on Thursday evening and raced their first leg towards St. Barths on Friday morning where Team Gill set […]
Bonaire has a renowned marine heritage in ship building, navigation and fishing. The ‘boto piskado’ were beautiful sail boats used daily for fishing. They were the original boats that began the regatta and traditionally, they would take a week off fishing to join into the races after that. As sail boats were replaced by motor […]
