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Re: STV to GND
[Re: Thirsty_Toad]
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04/18/2012 06:13 PM
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Mystique is a must! Take cab on Island tour,sunset at Firefly,we had drinks with Mick one trip!
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Re: STV to GND
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Agree with suggestions to skip Canouan. For fishing advice and gear (not rental) on Bequia go to Wallace and Co. - they were great in making recommendations for lures, etc. (note they have moved to the south end of the harbor near the walkway to Whalebone.) Depending on the desires of your crew, if you want to visit one of the most beautiful islands (the other being St. Bart) take the suggestion of doing a taxi tour of Mustique including dinner at Firefly - it is all more expensive than other places but worth it.
After Tobago Cays I always seem to find Salt Whistle jammed, almost like a BVI harbor! So, we always seem to end up at Saline Bay on Mayreu. We like it because it has a great beach, good snorkeling on the south end and is a closer walk to "town."
One of our favorite spots is Petit St Vincent, including snorkeling around Mopion. We also always spend a night in Clifton, Union Island. You can get onto a dock which is good for letting the crew leave the boat by walking, instead of always in the dink, get water, hit an ATM, etc.
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Re: STV to GND
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DawnB said: We leave on the 3rd as well! Although we have two weeks on the boat and are returning to to St. Vincent.
Maybe we'll see you? Are you staying on St. Vincent before your trip? We'll be at Beachcombers for two nights before our charter. Dawn, I'm spending the night of the 2nd in Barbados, and catching the first LIAT ( hopefully let them be on time) out to STV and departing out of Blue Lagoon with Sunsail. I'll be on one of the new 44' Cats. Look for a big Texas flag. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Re: STV to GND
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We have always used a handline trolled behind the boat until just last year, if you don't have any luck the bally hoo are pretty good eating anyways.
Drink all day at home, your friends worry about you; do it on vacation and they say "what a good time you're having". Save your friends needless worry, travel more!
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Re: STV to GND
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The gin trick, (we use tequila) works but you have to pour it in thier gills. I always wear my sailing gloves when trolling with a handline, even though the fish you catch might not be too big, you can never be sure if something larger isn't going to hit it on the way in and it doesn't take much for fishing line to cut you.
Drink all day at home, your friends worry about you; do it on vacation and they say "what a good time you're having". Save your friends needless worry, travel more!
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Re: STV to GND
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05/19/2012 02:06 PM
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Seth said: In fact, we do not allow charter guests to overnight at Palm - as Rick said, the holding is lousy.
There's one other small thing which is that the island's owner has been known to like shooting protected birds with one hand whilst eating breakfast with the other, has destroyed a lot of the mangroves which used to protect crabs and other marine creatures, paid the SVG Government in order to try to obtain control of the Tobago Cays for profit, and does not allow visiting yachtsmen to sit on most of the beaches. For preventing the transfer of the Cays Park to this gentleman, the members of the activist organisation Friends of the Tobago Cays, were labelled "malignant individuals" by "very senior" Government personnel. Good to know! We were thinking of a stop there, but maybe we should try somewhere else!
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Re: STV to GND
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05/21/2012 02:35 PM
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oh... If you're into finding sea-glass there's a ton of it on the beach near the dock at Petit Martinique.
This is also where you can replenish fuel, water, and Heineken. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Banana.gif" alt="" />
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Re: STV to GND
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05/21/2012 10:15 PM
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Twanger said: would love to hear where, exactly. Can you put an X on an overhead image? Please! I leave in 10 days and would love to have coordinates! Every blog/travel report I read has said that all have had trouble finding good holding. May just do as Twanger did and dinghy over...
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Re: STV to GND
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05/23/2012 09:59 AM
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Our last trip we had what we thought would be a lunch stop on Palm. One of our boats picked up a ball and we tried several times before getting an anchor to hold. We went ashore before noon, the tables were empty and were told we would need to wait until all their guests had eaten before being seated. When would that be?... "maybe around 2pm"! So, no lunch. We walked around a bit and realized it took about 15 minutes to see the entire island.
Perhaps it is a great place to get away from it all, for resort guests. BUT - clearly not a yacht friendly spot!
On the other hand, anchoring off PSV is great and an easy dink to Mopion.
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Re: STV to GND
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05/23/2012 08:21 PM
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rcevans100 said: Hi Dawn,
Here are the coordinates of where we anchored off Mopion N12 32.661 W61 23.754
If you look on the Garmin chart this is just on the edge of the "danger line" around Mopion. The depth is around 25 to 30 ft
Hope this helps.
As always your results may vary !!
Bob Yo Dawn, If I remember correctly Wind Dancer had about 50’ of chain and another 200’ of rope rode. Depth of 30’ shouldn’t be a problem unless it’s blowing a stink.
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Re: STV to GND
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05/24/2012 05:54 AM
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rcevans100 said: Hi Dawn,
Here are the coordinates of where we anchored off Mopion N12 32.661 W61 23.754
If you look on the Garmin chart this is just on the edge of the "danger line" around Mopion. The depth is around 25 to 30 ft
Hope this helps.
As always your results may vary !!
Bob Thanks, that gives me an idea of where to look, we'll see what it's like once we get there!
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Re: STV to GND
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05/24/2012 08:27 AM
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rcevans100 said: Hi Dawn,
Here are a couple of photos looking from Mopion towards Fota and Petit Dominique I beleive. (The Photos are in the simple photo library - I couldnt easily post them here) We anchored pretty close to Mopion as you can see. We arrived around noon so had good visibility to spot sand - snorkelled over the anchor - had set well.
I'll see if I can get the actual coordinates off my hand held GPS.
have a great trip
Bob Hey Bob No link to the pictures, were you on a cat or a mono? Thanks!
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Re: STV to GND
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05/24/2012 03:57 PM
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dawn - for pictures look at the TTOL link here. However, I find the pictures of the yachts taken from the perspective of Mopion of limited use. You still won't really know what it looks like when aboard the yacht looking at Mopion. The lat/lon provided above would be far better. Just a little tip - Approaching from the south the water jumps from 20-ish feet to 7-ish feet very rapidly around Mopion.
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