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July 01, 2006
Sailing Adventures and Anchorages of the Caribbean
Last summer I spent some time documenting in Google Earth the sailing adventures of my family on our catamaran PatiCat from 2001 through 2003. Check out this new version of the collection of anchorages and passages 
from Cape Town, the Caribbean, the US East Coast, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. Make sure you click on the anchorage placemarks. Google recently updated many of the tropical islands with high resolution satellite photos, and in many cases you can see the glorious beaches, coral, and boats at anchor. Many of the placemarks include a photo from that location, and links to the web site which documented the visit to that location with many more photos. The passages are marked with different colors indicating a particular passage between locations.
I first released this collection last fall, but with the new high resolution photos of the areas, and the addition of photos to the placemarks, it seemed like a good time to republish the collection. Hopefully some of you sailors out there will especially enjoy it. The screenshot is of one of my favorite anchorages: Tobago Cays, in the Grenadines. Here is the original post on Google Earth Blog which provides more details on how the GE file was created.
Posted by FrankTaylor at July 1, 2006 09:13 AM
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Thank you so much for the information. Google Earth is a great asset for planning our sailing vacation/yacht charter. There are so many wonderful places to explore in the Caribbean. The new satellite photos were awesome to really see the areas and give us some ideas of the areas we want to explore in the Caribbean. Since you are so experienced with sailing, perhaps you could advise? We just found this site: www.visailing.com/caribbean-sailing-vacation/caribbean-sailing-vacation.htm We have used bareboats in the BVI---how easy is it to sail in the Grenadines? If we are relatively novice sailors, would we be better off chartering a crewed yacht this time? Thanks for your imput and keep up the work with the helpful info to the passages and anchorages. We love it!