Sailing Related
My boat offers a retreat from stress. You may well ask; why choose a sailing boat as a retreat? Well it’s an opportunity for you to choose to loose all that’s bad in you. Clean yourself inside and out, on a boat. Choose a unique environment well away from temptation and social pressure. Separate yourself [...]
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Turtle Cay Marina will host Tropicbird for charter to the Sanblas islands Panama. Facilities will be available at the marina where you meet the boat. 3 day charter (weekend example) schedule: Friday evening arrive at the marina. Eat and drink at the restaurant, tour the slips and facilities. Sleep on Tropicbird overnight or the Villa [...]
This is a Caribbean sailing blog which captain Julian wrote as a gift to a charter group. They had such a good time and allowed the captain to relax and enjoy himself. Andres group charter ‘Blog’. Written by their captain Julian. It all started way back at the end of November 2010 when I got [...]
Time for reflection on our attitude. You can find spiritual help on a sailing boat. The ultimate cost of not doing anything is chaos and disappointment. Quite probably you will be satisfied to accept this as a wonderful holiday amidst exotic surroundings. Tropicbird and her hosts want to offer you more; give you a better [...]
Sanblas – Grand Isle – Portobelo – Bocas de Toro. Book your dream Sanblas sailing holiday. Cruise the Caribbean coast of Panama see the wonderful Sanblas islands or the Chagres River, even sail to Bocas de Toro. Perhaps meet the yacht in Bocas de Toro and charter amongst the islands. Tell me the number of [...]
My Panama sailing adventure is on Tropicbird. One would think that an adventure is only had when the sails are up but on a boat it seems its always an adventure. Dropping the anchor and going ashore to a new place or country is always adventurous. Some years ago I wrote the text for the [...]
If you would like to experience life aboard a classic world cruising sailing yacht then come onboard Tropicbird. I will acknowledge all the sea miles you make with a written description and my signature. Or if you have a ‘Log Book’ I will sign that. Also night passages. These are particularly expensive to charter. Anyone [...]
The best sailing I have done was in Cuba. I chose to sail from Jamaica to Cienfueugo in Cuba which one is able to do inside a bunch of islands which protect the inner area from any sea swell. Thus the water is absolutely flat with the wind still blowing. At the time the wind [...]
Sailing the world is on offer to you. Tropicbird has taken me to six countries and through the waters of some others. Since my eighteenth birthday on other boats and hitchhicking I have visited thirty-two or so countries. Tropicbird was built in South Africa and has sailed countries I have not been to yet. Indeed she [...]
Many times strangers to me and my boat ask ”Have you ever been in a bad storm” to which I answer in a bemused fashion, ”Can’t think that I have”. Is the measure of ones survival the severity of the weather? I think not. Perhaps staying awake for 36 hours single-handed in the Gulf of [...]