CANADIAN BOATING

For at least ten years, six of us, all members at Toronto's Ashbridges Bay Yacht Club, have been talking about chartering a boat in the Caribbean. We finally put our money down, and selected a Lagoon 39 catamaran from Sail Grenadines in Bequia. It seemed like the perfect place; Nick and I had been to St. Vincent and the Grenadines many years ago and the others, Robert, Petra, Steve and Melanie, accepted our word that it was much less crowded than many of the other cruising grounds of the Caribbean. A new airport was recently built in St. Vincent, and now you can fly direct once a week from Toronto. Sail Grenadines would deliver the boat to us in St... We have all raced Thunderbirds together and against each other over the years. Knowing we could all get along on the race course meant cruising together shouldn't be a problem. Our biggest concern was making sure we would have ample supplies of rum and juice for our evening cocktails... The company informed us that the Laguna 39 we had..

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