Caribbean Compass Yachting Magazine April 2016
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— Continued from page 11<br />
The rally will likely continue this as an annual rendezvous, providing continuing<br />
help to Dominica for years to come.”<br />
To support Dominica’s event, the Salty Dawg Rally organized a Salty Dawg<br />
Rendezvous in Dominica; rally boats left the British Virgin Islands heading to<br />
Dominica for the first week of February, arriving in Dominica on February 9th, ready<br />
to help as necessary. Along the way, the news about the rally was spreading. Several<br />
Salty Dawg vessels including Kaliani, Persistence, Caris, Destiny, Pratique and SSCA<br />
vessels including Lagniappe all rallied together on their way from BVI, St. Maarten<br />
and Guadeloupe to the shores of Portsmouth in Dominica. On entry, they contacted<br />
Martin Carriere of Providence Boating by hailing him on VHF 16. Martin then<br />
switched to a working channel and guided the boats to their reserved moorings, the<br />
new set directly in front of the PAYS office.<br />
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The night before, the Conovers’ S/V Growltiger had dragged anchor several times,<br />
owing to the presence on the seabed of an invasive sea grass that recently migrated<br />
to the <strong>Caribbean</strong> (see details in this month’s <strong>Caribbean</strong> Eco-News, page 12), so the<br />
moorings are a real asset, as is the PAYS’ security boat. (In deeper waters in the<br />
harbor, over 30 feet, no weed survives, so it’s good holding in those areas.) The new<br />
moorings and PAYS oversight makes it possible to take longer tours inland to visit<br />
Dominica’s beautiful interior and its innumerable shades of green.<br />
Next year’s Yachtie Appreciation Week will be celebrated from February 12th<br />
through 19th, 2017, so please mark your calendars and do not miss it!<br />
Clockwise from above: Dominica’s beaches are still uncrowded; ‘Welcome, yachties!’<br />
Tour guide Octavius Lugay, better known as ‘Sea Cat’, in Roseau; Visiting the<br />
Emerald Pool, one of the many waterfall-fed feature attractions of The Nature Island<br />
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