Barbados’ yachting business is enjoying a booming 2017 season.
Berths at the island’s two upscale West Coast marinas are fully occupied, and Carlisle Bay is dotted with yachts whose owners prefer to drop anchor in the placid setting of the bay, avoiding The City noise heard in the Inner Basin of the Careenage.
The City marina facility was a hive of activity just over a week ago, when some yachts which had raced across the Atlantic in the 2017 Atlantic Odyssey were berthed. Some of them have however left Barbados, while others sailed out to Carlisle Bay.
Local yachting expert Peter Gilkes told the DAILY NATION 54 boats participated in the Atlantic Odyssey race which finished here on December 17. That race was organised by Jimmy Cornell, former organiser of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), the popular cross-Atlantic race which was eventually moved from Barbados to St Lucia as the finishing point. (GC)
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