Caribbean Compass Yachting Magazine - October 2018

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“This is especially true when you are constantly on the move. Most liveaboards
don’t have a permanent address, and ordering something from the mainland takes
a long time. At the same time, items that are no longer really needed accumulate
on the boat. Within the last year I saw only one ‘sailing-garage sell market’, where
sailors exchanged goods. In marinas, people place printed paper with offers of their
dinghy, sail, life raft and so on, on a bulletin board. Others use online forums, etcetera.
Here and there it works, but I wondered where I could find a simpler,
better solution —
• that uses my smartphone,
• that knows when I sail to the next anchorage and helps me to relocate my offers
or my wants,
* that is not tied to a country or address,
• where I can place my offer in one language, and someone can find my offer
searching in another language, without any extra effort for either party,
• and that works with limited or no internet access.
“I couldn’t find any existing tool that could do all of this, so I had to craft a new
app called Mindelo Moving Market. This is a free app — it’s like a moving flea market
specifically for sailors. If you sail to a new place, your offer can easily move with
you. Also you can see what sailors around you are selling. It’s amazing that we just
don’t know, but maybe your neighbor in the anchorage just wants to sell exactly
what you are looking for.”
Feedback and ideas for improvement are welcome
at MindeloMovingMarket@gmail.com.
The app is available for free download in App Store (Apple) and the Play Market
(Android): search for “Mindelo Moving Market”.
OCTOBER 2018 CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 8
Two Join Clarke & Carter Caribbean
Clarke and Carter Caribbean,
an affiliate of Clarke and Carter
Interyacht UK — one of the oldest
and most respected international
yacht brokerages in the marine
industry — warmly welcomes two
new members to the team: Rosie
Burr and Leslie Alexander.
Rosie will be taking over as manager
for the Grenada-based brokerage.
She has 15 years of
yachting experience, from sailing
on tall ships to freelance marine
writing to yacht deliveries.
Originally from London, Rosie
spent nearly a decade working
for an independent property
management company. Since
then, Rosie and her husband, Sim
Hoggarth, have sailed extensively
around the east and west
Caribbean and North America
Left to right: Leslie Alexander, Rosie Burr
and John Whitsett
for the past 14 years, choosing the beautiful island of Grenada to finally settle.
Grenadian-born Leslie Alexander will be joining the sales team, bringing with him a
vast local knowledge of the island and a keen sales pitch.
They will both be great assets to the team conveying Clarke and Carter‘s tradition
for excellence by offering friendly, professional and local knowledge.
John Whitsett, founder of Clarke and Carter Caribbean, will be taking a step back
from the day-to-day running of the company but will continue on as director.
For more information about Clarke and Carter Caribbean
visit www.clarkeandcartercaribbean.com.
Unique Ship Visitor to Port of Spain
Gerard Bengochea reports: On August 17th the Port of Spain, Trinidad shipyard
Maritime Preservation Limited received the M/V Brigitte Bardot, owned by the
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the US-based non-profit marine
conservation organization.
Sea Shepherd uses direct action tactics and information campaigns to protect
marine life and inform the public of their plight.
Michael Burke, Executive Chairman of Maritime Preservation Limited, says, “Owing to
the unique 115-foot stabilized monohull shape of the M/V Brigitte Bardot, our dry docking
team, using underwater divers, had to be extra careful to make sure the vessel was
properly secured and supported before we hauled the fiberglass hull out of the water.”
The Port of Spain shipyard has great historical significance, having been designed and
built in 1939 by the British engineering firm Head, Wrightson & Co. Ltd, which was founded
in 1865. Earlier this year the railway and cradle were totally refurbished to original
specifications to ensure the 79-year-old dry dock meets stringent safety standards.
On August 9th, the M/V Brigitte Bardot became the third in history to obtain registry
as a Private Marine Conservation Yacht by the Dominica Maritime Registry (the
other two being Sea Shepherd’s M/V John Paul DeJoria and M/V Sharpie).
Visit www.trinidadshipyard.com for more information about Maritime
Preservation Limited.