Posted By: UncleLuff
beating up before - running down - 05/15/2018 07:34 PM
Hi fellow bareboaters; Thinking of chartering a catamaran and our first thought was to do a one-way from St. Vincent to Grenada making various stops along the way. We will be 4 couples (2 of us (gents) have bareboat experience in BVIs and all of the gents have just done our 101-104 certification through nautilus sailing in Grenada)
The other option that we were thinking of is having the gents going down a couple of days early and beat up to St Vincent checking in at Union island for the night and then picking up better-halves for the nice relaxing broad /beam reach down through the islands in St Vincent. Wile it looks doable (app 30 kn miles to Union and another 30 or so to St Vincent, I was wondering how practical it is to do it in two days. Keeping in mind the whole point of going down a couple of days early is to get familiar with the boat its handling and operations and experience some challenging sailing.
Thoughts on this approach?
The other option that we were thinking of is having the gents going down a couple of days early and beat up to St Vincent checking in at Union island for the night and then picking up better-halves for the nice relaxing broad /beam reach down through the islands in St Vincent. Wile it looks doable (app 30 kn miles to Union and another 30 or so to St Vincent, I was wondering how practical it is to do it in two days. Keeping in mind the whole point of going down a couple of days early is to get familiar with the boat its handling and operations and experience some challenging sailing.
Thoughts on this approach?