This is the first Captain John’s Log entry in quite some time! AquaSafaris keeps us very busy with international destination charters, local Charleston corporate and private bookings, inshore and offshore fishing, sailing our newest addition JAZZ and of course S/V SERENA, still the area’s only true sailing yacht legally certified for more than 6 guests. […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Grenadines: Islands in the Clouds Part IV: Palm Island and Petite St. Vincent 13.15°N.Lat./61.2°W.Lon. Located at the southern end of the archipelago belonging to St. Vincent and the Grenadines lie two resort islands quite different in character from one another or from anywhere else in the Caribbean. Palm […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Grenadines: Islands in the Clouds Part III: The Tobago Cays 11.15° N. Lat. / 60.40° W. Lon. When it is so cold that the pipes freeze and I have to bring the dog in, I inevitably ask myself why I ever left the Caribbean. Fact is I never […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Grenadines: Islands in the Clouds Part II: The Island of Mustique 12.52°N.Lat./61.11°W.Lon. Of all the Grenadines, Mustique is perhaps the most unique. You’ve heard of exclusive clubs and restaurants; who is to say that there can’t be an exclusive island? The private owners of the island united to […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Grenadines: Islands in the Clouds Part I: The Island of Bequia 13.00°N.Lat./61.15°W.Lon. We had been chartering in the Grenadine Islands of the southeastern Caribbean for only a few months. Making the adjustment from the Virgin Islands was quite a challenge. Gone were the supermarkets, laundry services, seafood deliveries, […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden Australia’s Whitsunday Islands Part II 20.10 S.Lat / 148.55 E.Lon I signed aboard the Golden Plover just in time for her annual haul-out. John DeVere’s Coral Sea Line has its own modest facility on the mainland at Airlie Beach, constructed specifically to handle Plover’s enormous hull. The simple rail […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden Australia’s Whitsunday Islands Part I 20.10 S.Lat / 148.55 E.Lon When Captain Cook and the crew of ENDEAVOR set sail in 1770, heading north from Botany Bay, they had placed an inexorable stake in mere faith. It was both faith and imagination that brought James Cook and his three-masted […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Island of Dominica 15.34 N.Lat / 61.27 W.Lon In the wild grandeur of its towering mountains, some of which rise to five thousand feet above the sea; in majesty of its almost impenetrable forests, in the gorgeousness of its vegetation, the abruptness of its precipices, the calm of […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden St. Lucia 13.53 N. Lat / 61.04 W. Lon When we were both in college, my brother William gave me the LP, Making Movies by Dire Straits. This album stirred our imagination; especially the track entitled “Tunnel of Love”, which tells of an English amusement park called The Spanish […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden San Remo, Italy and a Riviera Rendezvous with The Darling Jade There is something rather curious in the main salon of the British J-Class vessel Endeavour that doesn’t quite fit with the rest of the décor. It’s not the collection of six original J-Class champion hull models displayed over […]