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Old 04-27-2009, 09:01 PM   #1
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Hello Folks,

I stumbled over this web-site and I have been busy reading since last week. There is certainly a great deal of material here!

My wife, Aimee, and I are moving to the Caribbean in a couple of years and I have been toying with the idea of getting a boat of my own. I have been sailing for only a couple of years (and brown-water mostly, as well) amd I consider myself mostly a rank novice despite the fact that I rec'd a license to sail a boat myself.

I have joined a club where I noticed there was a particularly concentrated assortment of older fellows who tend towards wind-power and prefer actually sailing to simply bbqing in the cockpit of a $500K boat that has never left the harbour. From crewing for them, I am getting some experience with different hulls and sail plans. Given the limited water in the area, most of the boats are still rather small and I feel that this is a real blank spot in my education (anything over 30 ft in length).

The club also has a "sail share" where each season you can buy into it and take any of its Tansers or Sharks out for the day (and not be bothered with paperwork!). This serves me well, because it also gives me the option of sailing with other, like-minded people.

So, I am slowly building my experience with different boats. This forum is great for that as it has already given me a few ideas. I had given up on ever owning my own boat, particularly in light of the need to set-up and maintain a business in a couple of years time. My education, although fairly good, won't really help me down there so I am still thinking about different opportunities. Adding a boat to that did not seem entirely viable. But having read a bit, and talked to a few people, I am almost certain that I can afford a smaller day-tripper. Although I am green with envy at seeing some of the really fine boats that the community here can boast of, I know those are out of my range. But then, I am not sure I would ever really need something that I could sail the world with - a weekend would be fine, I am sure. And we can talk again in 25 years...

Kevin

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Welcome aboard Kevin - good to have you here.

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Welcome to the CL Kevin.

Were you by any chance a teacher at the GDS in Washington, DC? or related to Kevin Barr who was?
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Welcome to the CL Kevin.

Were you by any chance a teacher at the GDS in Washington, DC? or related to Kevin Barr who was?
No, I have not taught in Washington - and I am not aware of anyone in the family who has. We do tend to be a small clan so no doubt I am related to him. I have about 5 cousins with the name Kevin (unimaginative, I know, but I was not consulted at the time ) so perhaps it was one of them. There are a few of us who do reside in the States but they are a very distant branch of the family and I am not really sure how they fit in.

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No, I have not taught in Washington - and I am not aware of anyone in the family who has. We do tend to be a small clan so no doubt I am related to him. I have about 5 cousins with the name Kevin (unimaginative, I know, but I was not consulted at the time ) so perhaps it was one of them. There are a few of us who do reside in the States but they are a very distant branch of the family and I am not really sure how they fit in.
Well, he is a very nice person. My daughter was his student.

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Well, he is a very nice person. My daughter was his student.

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Kevin, where in the Caribbean are you planning to move? *There is a lot of really good sailing down there.

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Kevin, where in the Caribbean are you planning to move? There is a lot of really good sailing down there.

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We are planning on Dominica (not to be confused with Dominican Republic). They don't seem to have much of a harbour but there are a few boats on the leeward side of the high ground near Portsmouth. There seems to be a great deal of sailing going on up by Antigua but in Dominica itself it seems more of a sport for ex-pats.
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