Petit Martinique sailing - an unique experience
Grenada and the Grenadines up to St Vincent are one of the finest places to sail in the Caribbean. Grenada itself, the southernmost island in the Lesser Antilles, makes a great place to start or to finish a charter holiday. If you are starting in Grenada there are a number of very nice, sheltered bays in the island’s serrated southwestern coastline, where you can sail for the day before returning to the shelter of the main anchorages at L’Anse aux Epines and True Blue, Mt Hartman or St George’s. As you set off for the Grenadines you coast up the island, beneath the massive green rainforested flanks that move so slowly against the tropical sky, and then you cruise into the open water along the island chain, past a number of smaller cays before eventually reaching the first large island at Carriacou. The crossing between Grenada and Carriacou is notorious for its usually choppy seas and strong currents, hard beating to windward sailing. Coming back down with the wind behind you is good cruising. On the way you will pass a place called Kick ‘em Jenny. It is not actually an island, or not at the moment at least, but it is rough water. The name is thought possibly to derive from the French ‘Cay qui me gêne’, meaning ‘the island that disturbs me’. Which makes the English name just as appropriate. Currents overflowing a landmass near the surface make it choppy. Interestingly Kick ‘em Jenny is also an active volcano and pilots talk of seeing activity beneath the surface of the water. It was recently active, in 2001, and there is an exclusion zone around it for shipping. There is a theory about the disappearance of the Island Queen ferry in the 1940s. It is thought that gases given off by the volcano caused the ship to lose its buoyancy and sink. Kick ‘em Jenny grows every year, but right now it has vents spouts on the sides which dissipates some of the effects. Looking north from Hillsborough Bay on Carriacou you will see the Grenadines that are politically attached to St Vincent fade to grey on the horizon - Union Island, Petit St Vincent and Palm Island, Canouan and Mustique. Carriacou is an excellent stopover, four or five hours’ sail from the south of Grenada and an hour from Union Island (in the St Vincent Grenadines). During the daytime yachts anchor off the cays in Hilllsborough Bay, but even tucked close into the town itself it is a little too lumpy for a night stay. The best anchorage is Tyrell Bay in the west of the island. A number of restaurants and bars line the shore there. A marina is being built in Tyrell Bay, but it is not expected to open for several years.
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