Jeremy shaw's site - zingano
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jeremyshaw
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Glad you like it. Bit out of date I'm afraid - I have yet to update our travels to August when we parked the boat in Trinidad. Will be going out for a month over Christmas to move it to Venezuela. Anyone who has a boat in Chaggers who wants it eyeballed do let me know.
Glad you like it. Bit out of date I'm afraid - I have yet to update our travels to August when we parked the boat in Trinidad. Will be going out for a month over Christmas to move it to Venezuela. Anyone who has a boat in Chaggers who wants it eyeballed do let me know.
CharlesM
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Hi jeremy
I am planning to move my boat from St Martin to Trinidad. I plan to leave it there the next hurricane season.
Do you have any recomendations regarding good/reliable/trustworthy yards to park it in? Preferably one proactive as regards preparing for huricanes.
Alternatively, do you have recomendations for Venezuala?
Cheers
Charles
Hi jeremy
I am planning to move my boat from St Martin to Trinidad. I plan to leave it there the next hurricane season.
Do you have any recomendations regarding good/reliable/trustworthy yards to park it in? Preferably one proactive as regards preparing for huricanes.
Alternatively, do you have recomendations for Venezuala?
Cheers
Charles
jeremyshaw
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See my post of today elsewhere in this forum on Trinidad.
Bottom line is none of the yards in Trinidad are any better prepared for hurricanes than Grenda was. Boats are stacked tight together, masts routinely left up and nothing tied down.
Ironically Grenada is probably more secure for storage in some ways now - St. Davids have put in tie down points and Spice Island now welds the props together.
That doesn't mean you can't have your boat secured the way you want it in Trinidad, but you'll have to put time effort and money into securing the additonal space it nees and having the work done.
You might want to look at IMS which has a concrete base and deals more with workboats so is not quite so tight. But it would be harder to get someone there to look after it.
For our part, we never wanted to leave our boat in Grenada after June, but have been fairly relaxed about Chaguramas. I studied the 100 year hurricane charts and only 4 hurricanes have ever come to Trinidad, all below cat 3, all having to cross the 80 miles before they got to Chaguramas when they'd be mostly down to a TS.
Venezuela is even safer of course (weather-wise). We are moving our boat to Puerto La Cruz where you can haul and if you are interested I can give you an opinion on that - so far friends say it's fine.
Best wishes
See my post of today elsewhere in this forum on Trinidad.
Bottom line is none of the yards in Trinidad are any better prepared for hurricanes than Grenda was. Boats are stacked tight together, masts routinely left up and nothing tied down.
Ironically Grenada is probably more secure for storage in some ways now - St. Davids have put in tie down points and Spice Island now welds the props together.
That doesn't mean you can't have your boat secured the way you want it in Trinidad, but you'll have to put time effort and money into securing the additonal space it nees and having the work done.
You might want to look at IMS which has a concrete base and deals more with workboats so is not quite so tight. But it would be harder to get someone there to look after it.
For our part, we never wanted to leave our boat in Grenada after June, but have been fairly relaxed about Chaguramas. I studied the 100 year hurricane charts and only 4 hurricanes have ever come to Trinidad, all below cat 3, all having to cross the 80 miles before they got to Chaguramas when they'd be mostly down to a TS.
Venezuela is even safer of course (weather-wise). We are moving our boat to Puerto La Cruz where you can haul and if you are interested I can give you an opinion on that - so far friends say it's fine.
Best wishes
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