Salty Podcast #47 | Sailing Antigua ⛵️🌴 Expert Tips, Tricks, & Stories from Paradise 🏝️✨ - Salty Podcast: Sailing Stories & Adventures

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Capn Tinsley (00:00):
Tonight we are joined by Hayden and Raydeen of
Sailing Vessel Island Spiritlive from the Caribbean.
They'll be sharing expert tips,tricks and stories from their
adventures sailing aroundAntigua.
Stick around and please helpthe channel and engage by liking
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(00:22):
I'm Captain Tinsley.
Welcome to the Salty Podcast 47.
Here they are, hayden andRadine.
There we go.

Hayden (00:32):
Hey, hello, cheers everybody.

Happy New Year.
Live from.

Radeen (00:41):
Antigua.

Hayden (00:41):
We are not in Antigua, we're in Guadalupe right now.
We just sailed out of Antiguaafter being there for a month
exploring, because we fell inlove with it again.
It could be one of our favoriteislands, but now we're in the
French island, so look out, itcould change.
It could change.

Yeah Well, so you guys chose this topic, which I'm
always thrilled to have you onbecause you're so organized and
you send me these great visualsand the charts and the arrows
and the routes and where thewinds are going and all that.
So that's great.
So I never even prepare, I justdo the teaser and do the

(01:21):
thumbnail and you guys do therest.

Hayden (01:24):
Well, we are a little neurotic about diagrams and
handouts as being teachers, butthat's part of our problem.
We have OCD problems, but noAntigua Radine.
What do you love about Antigua?

Radeen (01:37):
Well, it's easy because it's English speaking, so that
just makes everything moresimple.
I like it because it has somany anchorages that you can go
to, with beautiful beaches, andthe people make it the best.
That's the main thing that Ilike about it.
The people are very friendly,they're gracious, they're
reserved, they're kind, they'rehelpful.

(01:58):
For example, their roads areterrible.
When we had a blowout of a tireon a country road in Antigua, a
young man came with a tire ironto help us in case we didn't
have one in the rental car.
He was on his way to work atthe airport as the air traffic
controller.
He was dressed up in hisuniform, but he still stopped to

(02:19):
help us.

Hayden (02:21):
So just one small example All these Caribbean
islands, what makes them sogreat is the people that live on
the island and how they adoptor treat the visitors that are
coming to their island.
Because all these islandssurvive on tourism and many of
these islands have cruise shipscoming in and out, of, and some

(02:42):
of these islands you sail intoon your private boat.
You don't feel like you'rewelcome there.
You kind of feel like anintruder.
They're not very kind to youand you just want to move on.
And there's several islandslike that that we avoid.
We won't mention, but we just.
Antigua is not one of those.
We got so enamored with Antiguathis year.

(03:04):
We stored there at Jolly HarborMarina and we, after being
there for a week or two, wedecided to just go ahead and
rebook to store there again inMay for the hurricane season
again and repeat the exact sameprocedure we did this year,
which was we launched the boatin December 1.

(03:25):
And then we spent a month therein Antigua and we did Christmas
and New Year's at Nelson'sDockyard, which was phenomenal.
That's what turned us on.
We're like, okay, we're comingright back to this next year and
it did okay.

It did okay during hurricane season and it did
okay, it did okay duringhurricane season.

Hayden (03:44):
Yeah, it didn't have a direct hit, luckily.
And the way the yard storesyour boat it's different than
other yards.
All the yards will strap downyour boat with two-inch
hurricane straps into concrete.
This yard goes to the point ofwelding the jack stands together

(04:05):
with rebar and then they weldrebar from the port side to the
starboard side under the boatand they weld this all together,
basically making a big cradle,and we felt pretty secure there
If a hurricane did hit.
I mean we took a hurricane inPuerto Rico, 220 mile an hour
winds with Irma and Maria, andour boat didn't fall over,

(04:27):
strapped down the same way, buta building blew up and then
broke our mast.
So the flying debris can do thedamages.
But in Antigua we were sothrilled with the boatyard
that's what made us come backand we said we're just going to
stay here again, Exactly, Okay,All right made us come back and
we said we're just going to stayhere again, exactly, okay, all
right.

Well, we'll have to do another video on how you
prepare your boat right for forwhen you leave it, because it's,
it's pretty amazing.
I don't, I don't.

Hayden (04:52):
I don't think anybody else does it quite like you guys
do we keep a google documentand then we log everything we do
step by step.
Of course we would of course wewould have a Google document?

Yeah, I'm including where people can find
you here.
I'm going to take this off thescreen, but at SV Island Spirit,
on all the different socialmedias, and there's your email
and let's go ahead and sayyou're also a broker.
So if anybody wants to buy a,boat.

Hayden (05:20):
Yeah, I'm a broker.
I'm a broker with CJ YachtSales in West Coast of Florida,
st Pete, and we mainly focus onIsland Packet yachts that people
want to get into sailing andwant to get an Island Packet.
Us being owners for 30 plusyears of an Island Packet, we
know the brand and what can workfor you, so we work as buyers,

(05:47):
brokers.
People looking to get into aboat is where we focus, so
that's our main focus?

Yeah, and I can attest you know everything.
No, we don't.
We do not Close, All right.
So where do you want to start?

Hayden (06:03):
Yeah, let's show people where Antigua is, because nobody
knows where it is.
Let's do the Antigua one chart.
So this is where Antigua is.
You'll see Florida up there inthe top left corner of the
screen and you'll see 1,200miles southeast on a course of
120, which drives you crazybecause the winds are from 090.

(06:25):
So the wind is on your port bow.
Uh, you know what?
What?
30 degrees off your port bowfor 1200 miles.
And you got to bash your wayout here to get past puerto rico
and past the virgin islands,and then antigua is the corner
of the leeward islands and thenthe windward islands go down

(06:46):
south from there.
The beauty of being in Antiguais you can beam reach, sail
south and north to the otherislands, right, right.
So that's what we like aboutstoring here.
Plus, we found a lot of otherbuddies have stored here for
years, so we're not the firstpeople to discover Jolly Harbor,
marina.

Jolly Harbor.

Hayden (07:08):
Marina, jolly Harbor, marina, that's where Antigua is,
and everybody pronounces itwrong, so there's a little
phonetic spelling on how topronounce it Radine Antigua, ah,
antigua.

Antigua Right.

Hayden (07:23):
Exactly Right Right.

So if you go to the Antigua Right, exactly Right
right, fresh and salty, iswatching.
Okay, oh, fresh, salty, greatFresh and salty.

Hayden (07:31):
Now here's another interesting layout of why
Antigua is so great is.
It's not only the island ofAntigua, but it's the island of
Barbuda.
Tell them about Barbuda.

Radeen (07:42):
Barbuda is a very flat island.
Antigua is very mountainous andBarbuda almost feels them.
About Barbuda Barbuda is a veryflat island, antigua is very
mountainous and Barbuda almostfeels like the Bahamas.
It's very low-lying and it'salso the site of the largest
frigate bird sanctuary in theworld and you can take tours
with a guided naturalist.
And that's on the left-handside of the map and there's only

(08:05):
1,000 people that live there.
They were badly damaged duringHurricanes Irma and Maria.
They actually had to beevacuated to Antigua to live
until things could be rebuilt.
So it's very, very quiet andremote and lovely.

Hayden (08:19):
The beautiful thing is you see the East Trade Winds
blowing in from Africa andBarbuda is due north, so it's a
35 mile beam reach sail up tococo point, which is the point
everybody anchors at, and thenit's a 35 mile beam reach back.
So this is a what a five, sixhour sail.

(08:41):
It's a day sail and it's a beamreach and it's serious ocean
sailing, with some nice five,six foot seas coming across your
beam.
And then you get up to theBarbuda and it's you have pink
sand beaches like Bermuda, andthere's a little lobster hut on
the beach that you can get yourlobsters at.

(09:02):
And's really a remote locationthough.
So to go to, and that's part ofAntigua, the country of Antigua
.
It's Antigua and Barbuda is onecountry, so you don't have to
check in and check out to sailbetween these two islands and
what you?

I just noticed the little square here and it is.
Did you already talk about thelittle square right there?
No, that's.

Hayden (09:23):
That's on another chart.
I'll show'll show the tip ofBarbuda, but now let's just
focus in on Antigua.
Now the next screen here isgoing to show us Okay, here's
the general lay of the land ofAntigua.
You're going to see, I haveidentified seven, eight
positions around this island.

(09:43):
Again, you have the east tradewinds blowing across the island
from east to west.
If we start at number one, downin the bottom English Harbor,
that's where Nelson's Dockyardis.
That's the most famous marinaarea.
That's where all the megayachts go.
Number two is Falmouth.

Harbor, and that's where you is that where you
left your boat?

Hayden (10:07):
No, no, we're back around the number five or number
four.
Okay, this is like.
This is like the most famousharbor is English Harbor and
everybody will love it.
And then the next is FalmouthHarbor, number two, and that's
where the Antigua Yacht Club is,and you'll find yachts there,
like the owner of WhatsApp, andfamous Russians dock their boats

(10:30):
there and anybody you can thinkof oh, the Google founder was.
Larry Page was in there theother day with us, so you find
major, major yachts, us.
So you find major major yachts.
Oh, and the, the mars candycompany was in there with their
350 foot yacht named starburstfour because they made the

(10:51):
starburst candy, so you findwhat?

what do you think?
The average?
Well, what are the bigger ones?
What are the bigger the?

Hayden (10:58):
average yacht.
The average yacht in falmouthis going to be 200 to 250 feet
and they're going to be 10 to$20 million.
They're just fantastic.
So that's number two, falmouth,and then you come around.
There's another one therecalled Carlisle Bay, and then
you come inside Cade Reef andyou scoot around the number four

(11:22):
, which is where Jolly Harbor is, and then number five is Five
Islands area bay, where most ofthe mega yachts hang out at, and
then number six is up at DeepBay, and then number seven,
which is well, seven's overthere but just past number six,
is St John.
That's where the cruise shipscome in at.

Radeen (11:42):
Okay, and that's the capital.

Hayden (11:43):
The capital All the cruise ships are dock at.
Okay, and that's the capital,the capital, all the cruise
ships are docked in there.
And then number eight is up inthe North Sound area and we've
explored up there, we've been upthere for weeks and a lot of
little islands to anchor around.
And then number seven is thehard one to get to because it's
to the east, it's into the windand it's called Green Island.
And when it's called GreenIsland and you, when it's a calm

(12:04):
day, you come around fromnumber four, jolly Harbor, you
bash your way into the wind andnumber three, number two, number
one, and if there's no wind,you keep going up into the east
and you scoot into that littlebay up at number seven and that
is where there's a windsurfingschool and a kite surfing school
, beautiful beaches, remoteislands and you can hang out up

(12:27):
there.
When you got there, whenthere's no wind from the east,
so which is rare the wind'salways blowing 15 to 20 knots
from Africa.

And so where do you like to hang out?

Radeen (12:40):
Oh well, we like to stay in Falmouth, number two, and
it's an easy walk from thereover to English Harbor, which is
where Nelson Scott, yeah, we'llshow that in the next slide,
right, but so Falmouth and whereelse?
Well, jolly Harbor is great.
It's wide open and the town isgreat and lots of boats the

(13:02):
smaller boats like us gatherthere, yeah number four.

Hayden (13:05):
Number four is the easy way to arrive at Antigua.
You sail in from St Barts orthe Virgin Islands.
You're coming in in the earlymorning usually overnight
passage and you can see that youwould just work your way upwind
into the trade winds, tackingback and forth or motoring right

(13:26):
in here.
And the beauty of Antigua isyou have all these bays on the
west side of Antigua so you canjust come up into these bays as
deep as you want to go and thendrop anchor.
And the thing that's so niceabout the Caribbean is the wind
will always be from this eastdirection.
It might be a little northeastor it might be a little

(13:48):
southeast, but it is never fromthe north or from the west,
whereas in the Bahamas and up onthe east coast of USA, when a
front comes through, you getthese clocking winds that are
east and then they pull south,and then they pull southwest and
then west and then northwest.
They blow like crazy and you'reon a lee shore and then the

(14:08):
winds go north and then theyfinally switch around the
northeast and then they go backto the east trade winds on the
Florida Peninsula.
Down here in the trades thatnever happens.
It's always, always east winds.
Do you know why it's east winds?
Do you know why it's tradewinds?
It's the spin of the globecausing the winds around the

(14:30):
equator.

Radeen (14:31):
So the only thing that suppresses those winds is major
storms like the East Coast justhad this week, and so tomorrow
and the next day and the nextday we're going to have very
light winds and what we havewill be from the north, but that
also brings in a north swell.
We've got a big surge happeningall along the Caribbean islands
, with big waves about 12seconds apart, but just flowing

(14:53):
through every anchorage on thewest side of all these islands.

Hayden (14:56):
So it makes it challenging.
Yeah, if you look at PredictWinright now and look at the wave
pattern of the Atlantic Ocean,you're going to see 25 foot
waves around Bermuda right nowbecause there's a massive low
that the snowstorm that justcame off the East Coast and
everybody got hammered with snow.
That snowstorm came off theEast Coast and now that low

(15:20):
pressure is out at sea likenearermuda spinning, the waves
are up at 25 feet.
Those waves then flow downtowards the Caribbean and we're
going to have 10 foot seascrashing on the east side of all
these islands.
So we're on the west side ofall the islands, but the waves
wrap around the islands and thenthey come in from the other

(15:41):
direction, so you get wraparoundswell.

So it'll come around here.

Hayden (15:46):
Right.
So if you take number fourthere, for example, and you
imagine 10-foot waves hitting upwhere the word Antigua is, the
waves are crashing on thenortheast side of the island.
The waves go around the islandon the top and around the island
on the bottom and they swellinto these bays.
So they'll swell into one,three, four, five, they'll wrap

(16:08):
around the island and you getthis surge coming in and out
from the west.

Radeen (16:13):
So they're not breaking waves they're not breaking, yeah
, they're just, but you're justconstantly in motion.

Hayden (16:20):
Right you're sitting, you're sitting on anchor and
your boat's going up three, fourfeet under your anchor and then
it pulls back and it tugs onyour anchor real tight and then
it goes back up three, four feet.
Now getting in and off of thedinghy onto your boat is a
challenge because you got totime it when the swell is a
certain direction for the dinghy.

(16:40):
So a an ocean swell on theCaribbean islands is is a big
deal and if you look at thepredict when for the next week
there's going to be big wavesout in the Atlantic and they.

How's this?
How's this going to fix youwhere you affect you, where you
are?

Hayden (16:57):
We're we're.
We're 50 miles South of hereand we have a lake.
Right now.
We're going to have a lake forthe next two days, very calm,
and then by Friday night it'sgoing to be rough.
And we're scooting down belowunderneath Guadalupe and we're
getting in a protected areacalled the Saints, so we'll be
in a different area.
There's a question.

Oh, in the Saints, yeah, yeah, we'll be in the
Saints?
Oh yes there's a question,roger McClure.

Hayden (17:23):
Yeah, hey guys, how much anchor chain would you suggest
having on your boat to anchor inthe Caribbean?
We've always had 250 feet ofanchor chain.
We've always had a half a drum,a five sixteenth inch HT chain
made by Akko Company, which is aUSA company from York, pa, but
now they're called Perilous andit's still a USA-made chain.

(17:48):
You got to be careful whenbuying chain.
You can get a lot of Chinaknockoff chain but you want to
get USA-made Atco chain 516thinch, half a drum.
250 feet, that's plenty.
We've had out 200 feet already.
We've never out 200 feet alreadybut most anchorages in the

(18:08):
Caribbean are 20 feet, 20, 25feet, so you lay out 100, 150
feet, 175.
We had out the other day inFalmouth.
But lay it out, you got it.
Why not use?

it.

Hayden (18:27):
So what do you do in the swells?
Any anything.
The beauty of having all thatchain out?
You know, 175 feet of chain outis 175 pounds, a 55 pound rock.
On the end of that the boat hasto lift up 175 pounds to get
the chain bar tight.
It never does that acts as alittle dampening effect?

(18:48):
Yeah, catenary action, and itjust helps the boat surge back
and forth, it's not a problem.

Really isn't a problem, so for people that
might suffer a little bit fromseasickness, this might not be a
fun thing.
It's rare that this happens.

Hayden (19:06):
This only happens when the Northeast suffers a big,
huge Nor'easter, and theNor'easter is a big low
hurricane-strength, low 960millibars.
It comes out into the Atlantic,stirs up the Atlantic.
The Atlantic waves come down tothe Caribbean once a month.
Maybe it's rare.

Radeen (19:25):
Okay, well all right, it's not all the time.

Hayden (19:28):
Yeah, it's not all the time, but you do have to be
ready for it.
Yeah, you got to deal with it.
If you go to the next slide, Ithink we zoomed in on the
harbors.
Let's see what my next slide is.

All right.

Hayden (19:42):
Okay, oh, yes, Okay.
This is one of our happy places, Falmouth Harbor.
So this would be one of the keyharbors.
This is where Antigua YachtClub is.
You can see where I'm pointingwhere Antigua Yacht Club is.
So again, look at the bluearrows.
The blue arrows show the tradewinds blowing across these
harbors.
So the Falmouth Harbor isbigger and more space to anchor

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in than the English Harbor downin the bottom right.
The English Harbor is whereNelson's Dockyard is and that's
a UNESCO World Heritage Site anda lot of people will want to go
into Freeman's Bay and anchorthere.
But what happens at Freeman Bay, especially when the swell is
running?

(20:29):
The swell will come around thecorner here and surge into
Freeman Bay and you'll have thisswell going back and forth
inside of Freeman Bay.
Unless you get way up pastwhere Nelson's Dockyard is,
you're not going to get awayfrom that.
Yeah, up in there and that'swhere most people anchor and

(20:50):
live is up there.
If you go on the other side ofthe land and go to Falmouth
Harbor, you can see it would bepretty hard for the North Swell
to wrap its way all aroundAntigua Yacht Club and come all
the way up to the head of theharbor where we say we anchor
here.
Okay, yeah, we anchor rightthere.
So what we do is we come in theharbor, drive all the way east

(21:12):
up until you hit one of the megayachts, and when you hit one of
the mega yachts you turn leftand you drop your anchor right.

Radeen (21:20):
Yep, that's what we always do, that's what we do.

Hayden (21:21):
We go right up to the top.
That places you very close tothe dinghy dock where I have the
word walk.
You can walk across the landright there to Nelson's dockyard
.
So every day we come in bydinghy and we walk over to
Nelson's Dockyard get a coffeeor just go for a hike up the

(21:43):
hill there.
Look out at Freeman Bay wherethere's a popular bar there on
the beach called the LooseCannon that our buddy boat loves
to go to.
That's Alex and Amy.
They go over there to LooseCannon, so that's a popular
place.
The Freeman Bay is a verypopular place because you can
get the Nelsons by dinghy dockthen.
But we prefer to be up inFalmouth Harbor and then just

(22:07):
walk over to Nelsons because alittle bit more open space to
anchor.

Radeen (22:13):
So, I'd like to put in a plug for Nelson's Dockyard.
In the 1700s Antigua was ownedby the British.
It was a colony and they werevery worried about Antigua.
All the sugar plantations thatwere here there's 109 of them.
You can still see the mill fromeach of those plantations so

(22:33):
the entire place was covered,the trees were stripped and it
was covered in sugar plantations.
So the entire place was covered, the trees were stripped and it
was covered in sugarplantations.
So Nelson's Dockyard was builtas a safe harbor for the British
fleet and in the 17, from 1785to 1789, horatio Nelson was in
charge.
He was the commander in chiefof the whole area.

(23:00):
So there's buildings that havebeen restored by the UNESCO
World Heritage Association sothat we can see today what it
was like back then.
It is the best restored workingdockyard of Georgian era in the
world.
So it's really very special andthey've done a great job of
adding restaurants and addinghotel rooms, without turning it
into a Disney World kind ofplace.

Hayden (23:22):
It's a dream.

Radeen (23:22):
You feel the history everywhere you walk.

Hayden (23:25):
We went there.
They had a Christmas Day party.
That was champagne all day longand then a buffet, a Caribbean
buffet, and six or eight of usvoters got together and made it
a day there.

Radeen (23:38):
And it was a charity event sponsored every year by
the National Parks Association.

Hayden (23:43):
It's what made us decide that.
Well, we're coming back here,repeating exactly what we did
this year.
We're going to launch the boatbeginning December, spend the
month in December in Antigua, doNelson's Dockyard for Christmas
and Nelson's Dockyard for NewYear's Day, and I don't think it
can be any better.
We know what's down island.
We've been on all the islandsall the way to Grenada multiple

(24:06):
times, and so, not to belittleany of the lower islands, it's
just that Antigua and Nelson'sDockyard is quite a pinnacle of
a place to hang out.
We love to just go there andorder a pot of coffee or a drink
or a martini and sit and lookat the harbor, and all these

(24:27):
mega yachts are docked allaround the perimeter, right
where that Nelson's DockyardArrow is.
There's a peninsula there andall the mega yachts two
300-footers are backed in therethere and they're tied up stern
too, and you get to walk aroundand see all these billionaires
that have their three hundredfoot yachts here.
It's really, really interesting.

Are these yachts?
Is this their home port orthey're just in for the winter?

Hayden (24:53):
No, no no, the yachts come to Antigua for services and
they go to St Martin forservices.
Those seem to be the big twoislands for the mega yachts, but
they were just here forChristmas and New Year's and
then they all left.

And do these millionaires rent these out?

Hayden (25:11):
Yeah, oh, oh.

Radeen (25:12):
It's a tax deduction.

Hayden (25:13):
Every mega yacht is a business write-off.
Of course, they rent for$20,000 to $50,000 a day and
they rent them once or twice ayear and so all the operating
expenses are a write-off becauseyou know they only rent it at
once, but they still need tospend $20 million a year for the
crew and the helicopter and thefood and maintenance on the

(25:35):
boat.
But, yeah, it's a write-off, sothey're not paying taxes and
they're all registered inforeign lands and you can look
them up.
You just speak into your Googlephone and say who owns Motor
Yacht.
You know Starburst.

Right.
So they all have full crews onthem and they're all busy
working.

Hayden (25:53):
All in uniform 10 to 20 crew members on a yacht 10 to 20
crew.
It's interesting.
You look them up and all theircharter rates are available.
You can find out how much itcosts to charter them.
Most of them are, you know,$20,000 to $50,000 a week to
charter and most of them have anoperating expense of $10 to $20

(26:17):
million a year operatingexpense for the yacht.
So yeah, it's a whole otherworld.
It's really interesting.
But they all come to AntiguaYacht Club and they all come to
Nelson's Dockyard and that'swhere they go.

We do have a question here.

Hayden (26:35):
Oh yes, feet or meters.
The chain is in feet 250 feet.

Radeen (26:39):
I think he wants to know about the chart.

Hayden (26:42):
Oh, are the charts in feet?
Let me look.

Yeah, it looks like.

Hayden (26:46):
Yeah, that's meters, that's meters, yeah, yeah, well,
we anchor up there at the top.
Where I say we anchor here,it's two to three meters deep.
That's where I had at 175 feetthe other week because I ended
up in the deep water and that'sfine.
I just had room to lay it allout, which is what I like about
up there.

Yeah, now, with all these millionaire boats and
everything, what's it there's?
I guess there's a lot of peoplejust like you, just like me,
that are also there.

Hayden (27:16):
Oh, there's more of us than them.
Yes, okay, yes, so there's allof us here.
This harbor at Falmouth isloaded with boats our size.
I mean we're the smaller boatat 35 feet.
Most of the boats are 40 to 50feet, 45, 50 feet, but we're all
in the same harbor feet 45, 50feet, but we're all in the same

(27:38):
harbor.
We're all going to the samepizza shops and roadie shops and
hardware stores and laundries$100 lunches.
No no.

You get affordable food.

Hayden (27:51):
You get a roadie and a beer for 20 bucks, you know.

Okay, yeah, and are you going to cover I't want
to uh step on your, your storyhere, your your plan.
Are you going to talk about umprovisioning there, or you know
expenses?

Hayden (28:06):
yeah, radine's good on the provision, that's, that's
her division there are.

Radeen (28:11):
there's an excellent grocery store in jolly harbor
called the epicurean, and theyfor a small grocery store.
They really have just aboutanything you could want.
It's within easy walkingdistance of the dinghy dock in
Jolly and so it works very well.
It's not inexpensive, though.
Things in Antigua are moreexpensive than the other islands

(28:31):
and I think that's because ofjust taxes and import duties and
things that they charge there.

Hayden (28:37):
They have a 17% tax.
Whoa On everything Right If yougo a couple screens forward.
The next screen after Falmouth,the next one right there.
This shows the lay of the landof Jolly Harbor.
This is kind of our happy placeand this is where Radine was
talking about the dinghy dockand the stores.
You'll see down there in thebottom corner, the bottom right

(28:59):
corner, it says dinghy dock inthe stores.

Uh, you'll see down there in the bottom corner,
the bottom right corner, itsays dinghy dock and stores.
Oh wow, that's a lot of, that'sa lot of dinghies in there.

Hayden (29:05):
Well, that's the marina that's where the charter boats
run in and out of and that'swhere you can dock your boat.
We anchor out where it saysanchor and then we dinghy into
there and is this?

is this where the charter boats go?
I mean the cruise ships, righthere.

Radeen (29:21):
No, no, no, no, this is a very small boat.
Yeah, this is the little guy.

Hayden (29:25):
No mega yachts in here, no this is the little guys in
here.
All those little fingers yousee are condos in Jolly Harbor.
They're all like $300,000 to$500,000 condos now with docks,
so it's really pretty nice, it'sfabulous.
This was a swamp and I don'tknow when, but they dug it all
out and made this complex ofhouses and docks.

(29:46):
And then the marina is down atthe very bottom and that's where
we hauled out.
We haul out there where it saysfuel, that's where the haul out
slip is, and then you come outof right there at fuel and they,
they park you right there inthe hard on concrete and that's
where we stored for the for thesummer and we're going to store
there again May until Decemberfor hurricane season.

(30:11):
But the cost customs is right upthere so you can sail in from
you know, your St Barts or StMartin, or sailing in from down
south, down near Guadalupe.
You come in, you drop anchorout in this wide open area.
We like to anchor way in theinside, there where the longest
arrow is.
We go into that cove and thenyou dingy into the customs dock

(30:33):
and you check in and we spent amonth here, one month based
right here.

Radeen (30:39):
Well in Jolly and Falmouth.

Hayden (30:40):
Yeah, jolly, we spent a couple of weeks in Falmouth, a
couple of weeks here, and it washard to leave because it's so
convenient.

Radeen (30:49):
So within walking distance of where it says fuel
is also a budget marine, whichis a chain of marine stores,
kind of like a West Marine.

Okay, so how much does it cost to check into the
country?
Good question.

Radeen (31:08):
We just checked out that was $20.

Hayden (31:10):
$20 to check out.

Radeen (31:11):
So that's $7.

Hayden (31:13):
$20 to check in for the Port Authority.
It's not like the Bahamas,which are $300 to $600.

Radeen (31:20):
I don't think it was more than $70 total it might
have been $50.

Hayden (31:24):
I mean, it's cheap.
That's not bad In the DR.
I was told that you had to payevery person you talked to yeah,
yeah, In the DR you give outtreats and candies and beers and
tips here and tips there.

Bring your $20 bills, yeah, but again the DR.

Hayden (31:39):
Their labor rate is $3 a day, so I mean they deserve
some tips here.
In Antigua the labor rate thatI looked up is $9 EC an hour,
which is $3 US an hour.
So the labor rate here is alsocheap.
But the work here that we haddone by the yard was reasonable.

(32:01):
We had the boat waxed here, wehad the boat bottom sanded and
painted here and I had onethrough haul replaced here and
it was all way cheaper thanFlorida half price of Florida.

And was it as good as Max?
Yes, really.

Hayden (32:19):
Okay, the bottom was fantastic and the sanding was
incredible.
The wax was great.
Yeah, I've been pleased withthe work here, which is again
why we're coming back.

Didn't you get it done pretty recently?

Hayden (32:35):
Every year.
We usually paint the bottom.
But when I was painting withtrinidad bottom paint, I would
paint every two years.

Radeen (32:43):
But uh, you can't get that here hard to get.

Hayden (32:47):
So I say I don't use a blade of paints, I use hard
epoxy paints so I can scrub itwhen I'm swimming it.
Uh, so they gotta sand it toput the new paint on.
Is what?

they do, but it's at half price.
So what the heck right?

Hayden (33:02):
Yeah, it was a very good price.
I was pretty impressed.
I mean to get the boat waxedand painted and everything.
I was thrilled with the price,not disappointed, and that's why
we committed.
We said, okay, we're going tocome back here.
And then yard storage here forus was about yeah, you're ended
up paying about $650 a month tostore your boat here, which is

(33:26):
the same as if I sailed at hometo Annapolis and put it in a
dock in Annapolis is going tocost me a thousand $1,200 a
month.
So the price, the carryingcosts of maintaining a boat
either in the water or on thehard or in your home dock unless
you have a house with a dock,it always seems to be about $600

(33:48):
to $1,000 a month.

Radeen (33:51):
And the price is just about the same as Grenada and as
Puerto Rico.

Hayden (33:54):
Yeah, we stored two years in Grenada and we stored
two years in Puerto Rico and nowthis is the first year we
stored in Antigua and we'recoming back here to store again
in May.

And plus you save all that time getting there,
which would take how long?

Radeen (34:13):
Well, it takes about three and a half months.
That's why we did.

Hayden (34:16):
I mean, if you did it, if you went straight out the
Bermuda six days and then sailedsouth of the Caribbean.
It's 10 days, the Caribbean1,500, very typical sailing run.
But we don't do more than 500miles.
The two of us are good for 500miles and then we're exhausted
and we normally don't take crewanymore.

(34:36):
We just want to be the two ofus and we normally don't take
crew anymore.
We just want to be the two ofus.
So we talked about taking theboat home this year and we went
through the numbers andeverything.
We said, well, we could sail ithome and get back to Annapolis,
but then we want to be backhere.
So we said, well, if we sailhome and put the boat in our
Rock Hall Marina, it's 700 plusdollars a month to store the

(34:58):
boat there.
And then we got to come backhere again.
So we just said the cost is thesame to just leave it here.
The negative thing is we don'thave a boat for the summer now,
we talked about that, but uhrating got mad at me.
Second boat two boats getting anisland packet 27 for home.
Two boats, we need a secondboat.

We need a 27.
I thought we were friends.
That's what she said.

Hayden (35:23):
We need a 27 in Annapolis at a private home that
we could pay a discounted rateon, and that would be perfect.

Radeen (35:31):
Yes, I frankly need a break from boating.
Can we take a break from it?
Then I come back refreshed andexcited.

Hayden (35:39):
That's how we're maintaining this.
This is our 25th year out hereand we both think we're able to
keep doing that, by getting offthe boat, putting it away,
saying that's enough, we're done, go home, do something else.

Right.

Hayden (35:57):
And then come back and okay we know, we know what we
got to do.

Let's set it up again and get going it keeps you
from getting burnt out, doesn'tit?

Hayden (36:05):
that's exactly that's what we've discovered, the
people that, the people thathave done this a long time.
They seem to be successful bytaking a break.
So that's what we're trying todo.
Uh, what's the next slide?
I got there.
Uh, let's see what.
Let's see what else I have.
I don't even remember what Isent you all.
Okay, hey, there's my thank you, great insight.

(36:26):
Thanks, mike.
Up to the north is one of myvery happy places, called Deep
Bay.
You can see, you can't reallysee, but just to the south of
this is Jolly Harbor.
You can see, you can't reallysee, but just to the south of
this is Jolly Harbor.
And so you come up to the tophere and you go into this little
deep bay.
There's a nice sandy beachthere and, wow, to me that is

(36:53):
what burns into my mind as oneof the sweet spots in Antigua.
You could just anchor there,swim with turtles, hike up to
the Fort Barrington.
Just anchor there, swim withturtles, hike up to the Fort
Barrington.
And yes, everybody complainsabout the jet skis that now rent
out of this harbor.
They run them down from StJohn's, they bring them down
around here, then they rent them.
They drive them around theharbor like maniacs, but every
day they get home at three, fouro'clock and you got the whole

(37:14):
place to yourself.
There's nobody there, so youjust got to put up with the jet
ski rentals which are popular inAntigua for the cruise shippers
.
The cruise ships come in two orthree cruise ships will be up
there in St John and then theybring them down here by little
boats and they put them on thisbeach, or they drive them down

(37:35):
by excursion buses and they dropthem on this beach and then
they rent jet skis and go outand run around the harbor.

Radeen (37:41):
But it's not crowded at all.

Hayden (37:43):
If there's 10 people on the beach, it would be a busy
day.
We love it.

How many boats, how many sailboats?

Hayden (37:51):
Four boats will be anchored in there.

Radeen (37:53):
Oh wow, We've been there by ourselves sometimes.

Hayden (37:55):
Three, four boats.
It's a must-do.
Deep Bay is a must anchor.

Radeen (38:02):
And there's a wreck at the entrance to the harbor.
That is marked and you can gosnorkel it.
So that makes it interesting.

Hayden (38:09):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
So that's St John.
We went up there and anchoredin there one time and then left.
It's a city.
It's where the cruise shipscome in and out of.
You don't really need to spendtime up there.
You take a cab up there and goto the shops and the markets and
things, but we mainly stay inthe back, these back bays of
Antigua.
Okay, Now the next slide.

(38:31):
I think I take us up to Barbuda, oh yeah, so here's the sale
from Antigua North, a little bitnortheast it looks like to
Barbuda, and now you'll seethere's a bottom corner there
called Coco Point.
That's where you're going to goNow.
If you go to the next slide,you'll see right there.

Yeah, and I think the next slide, I zoom in on
Coco.

Hayden (38:53):
Point.
Yeah, look at this.
And I think the next slide Izoom in on Coco Point.
Yeah, look at this.
Now, unfortunately the owner ofMitchell Paul Mitchell Hair
Salon products got sold thisentire point of Coco Point and

(39:14):
sadly he is building a megaresort there and it's kind of a
shame that they're developingthat.
But he owns that whole pointfrom the airstrip south.
So what we do is we go in andwe anchor along that beach and I
get down to as far to thebottom corner as I can and that

(39:35):
private resort, the beach accessis allowed up to high tide.
You see my note there Beachaccess to high tide.
Nobody in Antigua may own theland beyond the high tide mark,
so you go up Below it, below it,towards the water.
Towards the water, yeah that'skind of like here, that's like

(39:56):
here it's the same way Publicbeach out there.

I do have a question I have a question over
here on Instagram how busy isthis harbor?
Now, I'm not sure which onehe's talking about, so maybe
he'll tell me.
I'm not sure which one, but goahead and tell us what it is,
yeah.

Hayden (40:15):
Go ahead.
This harbor here is BarbudaCocoa Point, and this is such a
sweet place to go to it's pinksand beaches.
You take your beach chair andyour umbrella and you stick it
in the sand below the high tidemark.
They will come running out fromthe resort and tell you you
cannot come up here like, yes,we may, to that line of sand.

I'm going to tell them.
You told me it was okay that Icould come up and enjoy the time
at the resort.

Hayden (40:43):
You can see where the high tide mark is.
So if you're smart, you go atlow tide and that whole point
becomes exposed.
And so you go down there, youset your tent up, you set your
umbrella up, you anchor yourdinghy in the water, you swim in
and you're on the best point inBarbuda.
And they don't like it, butthey can't do anything about it

(41:05):
because you're below the hightide mark.

You just have to bring your own food right.
Yeah, right, right, it's fine Alittle cabana boy is going to
come down and try to bring you adrink or anything.
They're not going to come downto you.

Hayden (41:18):
The cool thing that happens here is the millionaires
fly in here and land on aseaplane Right here.

No, the seaplane lands in the water.

Hayden (41:28):
They land in the water and then off of the beach will
come about a 30-foot T-toppowerboat that is sitting on the
sand.
30-foot T-top powerboat that issitting on the sand and out
from the side of the powerboatcomes caterpillar tracks.
Then the boat drives down thesand into the water and then it
motors out to the seaplane andthen the millionaires get off

(41:50):
the seaplane into that boat andthen that boat goes back to the
sand and the caterpillar trackscome out and it goes back up on
the sand.
It is the coolest thing to see.
It's worth going up there to seethat boat and that's how
billionaires that's how theycome and go to the coco point
resort and I haven't been up.
We haven't been up there fortwo years, so we'll get up there

(42:12):
, uh, this season they can bringtheir gulf stream right here
yeah, they'll land right thereyeah right exactly now my other
buddy tells me up the beach herewhere the reef is.
You see, to the north there's areef and there's a lobster shack
up there that the guy grillslobsters for you on the beach.
We've not experienced that.

(42:32):
We want to do that.
But right up there, yeah, up inthat corner of the beach is a
lobster shack and you anchor upthere.
Yeah, up in that corner of thebeach is a lobster shack and you
anchor up there and then dinghyin.

Radeen (42:44):
Now again the waves are crashing onto this beach.
Here Crashing is a little bitof an exaggeration.

Hayden (42:47):
The swell yeah, there's waves, there's times you can't
land the dinghy on this beach.
True.
But that's not all the timeYou're talking about right here,
right in here, yeah, the wholething, this whole beach, all
those red arrows, yeah, so youjust anchor the dinghy out and
swim in.
That's very common.

Radeen (43:05):
Yeah, very common yeah.

Hayden (43:13):
And then there's great snorkeling to the east, to the
right-hand side.

Radeen (43:16):
Oh yeah, you take the dinghy anchor because you will
need it there.

Hayden (43:19):
And if you're brave, you can take your boat into all
those reefs and anchor it.
But we don't like places likethat.
We don't like to take the boatthrough a reef like that.

Radeen (43:27):
We have plenty of friends who have done it, but
not us.

Hayden (43:30):
We have buddy boats that have anchored in there.
We're like no, that's not forus, wow they got them right
there, don't they?
Yeah, you can go right intothose reefs and drop an anchor.
No, we'll take the dinghy andswim.
We like to be back on thissandy beach over here.
So that's Barbuda, that's theprize of Antigua.
Right there, right, yep.

You say a lot of places are your happy place.
We're going to have to make atop 10 list of happy places for
you, Okay.

Hayden (43:57):
I can do that.

Radeen (43:58):
Hayden's happy place is usually where he is right now.
Right now, it's French.

Hayden (44:04):
Right now it's French and if I were in Miami Beach,
that would be.
Miami Beach would be my happyplace, biscayne Bay, I love,
love Biscayne Bay.
Do I have another slide?
I'm not sure I do.
I don't think so.

Radeen (44:16):
I think I'm at the end Yep.

Hayden (44:19):
So that's our little Antigua Barbuda, how it's all
laid out and the best places tohang out at.

Now I remember when we did the provisioning for
Bahamas video and you weresaying you need to bring your
stuff because they just don'thave a lot there and not a lot
of choices.
Is this one of those places?
Also, Not at all.

Radeen (44:42):
No, this is so civilized .
You can get marinated artichokehearts and pickled onions and
fancy olives stuffed withjalapenos or blue cheese.

No, you can get just about anything could
possibly get, but you just haveto pay 17% on top of it.

Hayden (44:58):
Right, that's why you failed down here to the French
Islands, where it's all muchcheaper.

Radeen (45:04):
The French government actually subsidizes the
groceries for their Frenchcitizens, so it's less expensive
here than it is in Antigua, butwe hardly have any provisions
on the boat right now.
But we hardly have anyprovisions on the boat right now
.
We haven't felt compelled tobuy a lot because we know we'll
easily be able to get whateverwe want along the way.

Hayden (45:24):
It's so much different than leaving Florida and going
to the Bahamas, and then Bahamasdown to the Turks and Caicos,
and Turks and Caicos, theDominican Republic.
You sort of want to beprovisioned up for those runs,
right.
But once you're down here inthe Caribbean, you don't need to
worry about provisions.
The food is amazing andeverywhere Stores are great.

I want to pull up these pictures that you sent me.
Yeah, all right, let me getthat going here.

Hayden (45:53):
Yeah, I sent you some picture of Nelson's dockyard and
the yacht club or whatever.
I think so.

Okay, so go ahead and talk while I'm doing this.
Yeah, yeah.

Hayden (46:06):
So I don't know if we have a favorite place in the
Caribbean yet.
I mean, we love St Martin, welove Antigua, we love the French
Islands.
Any French island we get to wealways fall in love with seems
like that's looking atMontserrat, the volcano from
Shirley.

(46:26):
Heights.
That is the volcano to the left, the highest point there in
Montserrat.

Radeen (46:32):
And it has had more seismic activity the first 10
days of December than it has hadsince 2010.
So the government put out awarning that there's more
activity.
So two thirds of that island isin an exclusion zone.
It's a wasteland.
Everything was covered in ash Idon't remember 15 years ago

(46:52):
something like that and so onlyone third of it is currently
occupied.

Okay, so was it occupied before 15 years ago?

Radeen (47:02):
Yeah, you can see pictures of the town that is now
just covered in ash.
Like only half of the roofs aresticking out of the layers of
ash.

Wow.
So what's your prediction?
What's going to happen withthis volcano?

Hayden (47:16):
Jimmy Buffett, what are you going to do when the volcano
blows?
Yeah, I hope I'm not over there.

Well, you know, I guess it's like the big, not the
big island, but was it the bigisland, the big one in Hawaii?
We were there and we saw.

Hayden (47:32):
This is as close as we Were you.

Yeah, yeah, and they sell like lava insurance or
volcano insurance in Hawaii.
Yeah, wow, yeah, you have tohave insurance if you're living
in certain areas.

Radeen (47:46):
Wow, Well, in Montserrat , they had plenty of warning
that it was going to happen, andso everyone was evacuated
before it happened yeah.

OK, all right.
So this is what was happeninghere.

Hayden (47:59):
That's just a lazy day of sailing from Falmouth
downwind back around the JollyHarbor with just the jib only.
So that's just an easy, typicalSee.
In the backside of theseislands there's no waves, it's
kind of calm.
That's sweet.
That's just a five-knot sail,just sailing with the jib.

(48:22):
Now, luckily, when I came downhere first, max Sails made me
new sails and they made me a 110jib, which I hated because it
was so small for the 135, 140%jib I used to have for the
Chesapeake Bay.
Travis said you want a 110?
It's too windy down there.
And he was right, we need thesmaller jib.

(48:44):
So this is a 110 jib and it'splenty big enough for down here.
Yeah, that's just a lazysailing day.
What else did we send you?
Oh, that is Deep Bay.
No, that is not Deep Bay.
That's the beach in Falmouth,that little burger joint.
I'm standing at a burger jointand that's looking down the

(49:06):
beach To the entrance.
To the entrance where youcommitted Falmouth, and a lot of
people anchor right here andthen use this beach to swim from
Falmouth.

Radeen (49:18):
And a lot of local people use the beach too.
It's a very friendly atmosphere.

Hayden (49:21):
It's a very popular beach.
We use this beach when we're inFalmouth.

Radeen (49:24):
Yeah, it's beautiful sand.

Oh, it's gorgeous.

Hayden (49:31):
What's the next picture we sent?
Oh, that's from Shirley Heights.
You're looking down intoFreeman Bay, which is where the
loose cannon bar is, and thenyou're looking right where your
arrow is your arrow is atNelson's Dockyard, right in the
corner there, and then acrossthe little harbor to the very

(49:54):
top right corner.
That would be Falmouth Harborwhere we anchor.
So we anchor there.
Walk across that little pieceof land to Nelson's Dockyard.
Yeah, and that just the viewfrom Shirley Heights.

Radeen (50:07):
And Shirley Heights is an old fort and twice a week
they have steel drum music andpeople come and cook, barbecue
and serve drinks, and so it'sjust a fun party atmosphere on
Sundays and Thursdays.

Is that where you are right there?

Hayden (50:23):
Yeah, that's Shirley Heights.
That's the top of the hillLooking down.
What's the top of the hilllooking down?
What's the next one?
You sent Just a sunset fromFalmouth.
No, that's Falmouth Harbor.
Yeah, that's sunset fromFalmouth.
We're all the way up in theeast and sunset over there in
the west looking out the inlet.

Radeen (50:46):
Nice and calm.

Hayden (50:48):
That's how calm Falmouth .

Radeen (50:48):
Harbor is usually, and you can see it's not crowded
either, right?

Hayden (50:50):
there's tons of room to tons of room to go around.
What else do we have here?
It's 60 degrees f here in keywest.
Oh, chili, is the cold airreaching you all?
No, we don't have any cold airhere yet.

Radeen (51:06):
In fact, today was the hottest day we've had since we
got here.

Hayden (51:10):
It's hot here.
It's 87F here, probably.

Radeen (51:15):
About 80% humidity.

Hayden (51:17):
Yeah, at night we need a sheet.
It gets that cold, you know, itreally gets chilly at night.
Must get down to 75.

I met this man, Mike, and his wife in Key West.
I was going by to see my friendVanessa's boat and he
recognized me, Mike, and Ithought I was in trouble because
I was in the marina looking atsomebody's boat when she wasn't
there.
He goes, I thought that was you.
How nice goes I thought that wasyou, oh.

(51:51):
And he says, um, he bought thisboat, this island packet.
I think it's a 2021 mike, is ita 370 or 380?
What?
Oh?
Wow, he bought the boat becauseof the podcast.
There you go wonderfulcongratulations, mike he gave me
a tour and it was a perfectboat.
Oh my gosh.

Hayden (52:09):
Now you got to get out here, get down that chilly Key
West.

He said I've had this boat for a week and he just
sold his house.
I believe it was Ohio.
They sold everything and nowthey need to learn how to sail
it.

Radeen (52:24):
Fantastic, that's wonderful Good job.
I had Vanessa, who's also abroker On the podcast.

They need to learn how to sail it.
Fantastic, that's wonderful.
I love to hear that.
Congrats, mike.
I had had Vanessa, who's also abroker on the podcast, and so I
was saying, oh, she's a broker,and so he was watching and he
got in touch with her and askedabout a boat and she said I know
where it is, it's right herenext to me.

Hayden (52:42):
Wow, oh my gosh.
That's great Thanks, oh my goshthat's great.

Thanks to the Salty Podcast.

Radeen (52:47):
There it is All the credit.

Good job Outstanding.
It's a great story.

Hayden (52:53):
And it's a beautiful boat.

They're so excited too.
That's always great to see.

Hayden (52:58):
Oh it is.
Oh, there was our Christmasdecorations.
We put up 40 feet of lights,pulled them up to the mast and
that was in Falmouth Harbor forChristmas.
It was really, really fun.
Yeah, there were a couple otherboats that were decorated.

How hard is that to put those lights up like that
.

Hayden (53:16):
Well, you just string them together and you use your
spare halyard and you zip, tieit to your spare halyard and put
your halyard in a loop so youdon't lose it, and then just
pull it up and then plug it intoyour outlets and turn on your
inverter and run your inverterall night and it takes no power

(53:36):
because it's all LED lights.
So we ran that for two nights.

Radeen (53:41):
Did you heard it here?
And while we were in Jolly, theyacht club there had a power
boat parade of decorated boats.
There were seven boats thatcame in and out of each of the
anchorages.

Yeah, that was fun .
That was fun.
Did you join in?
No, no, we did not.
What else?

Hayden (54:03):
That's up at Shirley Heights, the steel band playing
there and you can see down intothe harbor behind the steel
drums.
That is a must-do in Antigua.
Probably the number two thingto do is this, shirley Heights,
and the number one thing to dois Nelson's Dockyard I agree.
Yeah for sure.
What else do we have here?

(54:24):
I don't even know what picturesI sent you.
Nelson's Dockyard Palm Tree,typical.
Next, hayden and Radine, yourfavorite armchair sailors, are
following along.
Mcq, rich McHugh, you know whothey are.
Someday we will join in on theadventure.
I hope so.

(54:44):
That's Rich McHugh.

Radeen (54:47):
Wanda McHugh.
I don't know if that's them ornot.

Hayden (54:49):
Rich or Wanda, probably, if it's a McHugh so many
McHugh's.

I know, Tell us who you are.

Hayden (54:55):
Yes.
What's the next picture we have?
Don't know.
Oh, this is the Nelson'sDockyard.
This is the UNESCO site.

Radeen (55:07):
Yes.

Hayden (55:08):
These are the pillars that held up a massive building.
The second floor of thisbuilding was a sail loft for the
tall ships, and the pillars arewhat's remaining of the
building, and they would row thesails in on rowboats and then
into this little canal rightover Ray Dean's hat and they

(55:29):
hoist the sails up to the secondfloor, lay them out and then
stitch them and repair them andthen hoist them back down and
then row them back out to thetall ships.
That's the Antigua Yacht Clubright there.
Antigua Yacht Club at Christmas, right there.
Yep, that's what it looks like.

(55:49):
All of those yachts in there,if you count the spreaders four
or five spreaders they all havered lights on the top of their
mass.
For low-flying aircrafts youhave a red light on the top of
your mass when your mass is over200 feet I think it's 200 or
150 feet, I forget what it isand so all those boats have a

(56:13):
red light on the top of them.
And that's just typical, justinteresting.
But you can see how calm theharbor is.
We dinghy from here to thosebig boats.
That's where the dinghy dock is, where that tall mast is right
there.
Next picture is let's see thatis a view sitting at Nelson's

(56:37):
Dockyard for breakfast, justlooking out in the harbor.
These are the little cabanatables they have for four people
to have breakfast at at thePillars.
It's fabulous.

Radeen (56:47):
Very civilized, very British we go there often.

Hayden (56:50):
We love it.

I lost my camera, by the way.
Oh, I see you did?

Hayden (56:54):
I can hear you oh my gosh, You're still there.
And that's Nelson's Dockyardagain.

Radeen (57:01):
With the Pillars.

Hayden (57:02):
With the Pillars.
And next picture what else dowe have?
I think that's it.
Is that it Fireworks for NewYear's New Year's over Falmouth
Harbor.

Radeen (57:12):
They had four different locations for the fireworks.
It was great oh it is RichardWanda.
Happy New Year, Richard Wanda.

Hayden (57:21):
Super Wanda and Rich, the best mechanic I know, get me
a Corvette buddy please.
All right, yeah, what's thenext picture we got here?
Oh, there's the aerial view ofNelson's Dockyard.
You can see how the mega yachtsthey're all gone right now.
They're not there, but theyback in stern too, and you still

(57:42):
pay by the length of your boat.
You don't pay by how much dockyou're taking up, because the
dock you're taking up will bethe width of your boat, but you
pay by the length of your boat.
So it's kind of interesting,they get more boats in that way.

Radeen (57:57):
So the white building in the center was an officer's
quarters back in the day, and sothey've rebuilt it and now it's
offices of businesses, and inthe surrounding buildings are
old.
The hotel where we hadChristmas dinner was called the
Cooper or, excuse me, copper andLumber Store, and that's what
it was.

(58:17):
It was the place where theywould buy the sheets of copper
to hammer onto the hulls of theBritish naval vessels and they
had a carronage where they wouldlean the boats over to work on
them.
It's really fascinating.

Hayden (58:31):
It's awesome to walk around there.
It's really a highlight ofAntigua.

Radeen (58:35):
The country actually has an archaeologist who is in
charge of all the excavationsthat they're still doing at all
the forts and once a week in thewintertime does a tour called
rum to ruins and he talks abouthow the sugar industry and the
rum industry, what propelled theBritish economy here and then

(58:57):
how it all fell apart.

Hayden (58:58):
so it's fascinating, yeah it's great, we love this,
we love this island.
It's it's why we spent over amonth here.
We just didn't feel likeleaving.
Why would we leave?
Did I send you any otherpictures?
I don't know what else I mighthave sent you don't want to bore
.
That's more of nelson'sdockyard.
What else did I send?

(59:19):
That's the pillars, the famoussite and the fireworks and the
fireworks more new year's evefireworks and the fireworks.
More New Year's Eve, all right.
And the overlook yep of Nelson'sover to the other side of
Falmouth Harbor in the nextpicture, yep, that's.

(59:40):
I think they're just repeatinga bunch.
That's back to Nelson's again.
Yep, yep.
That's the iconic Nelson'sagain, yep, yep.
That's the iconic image ofAntigua Right there, because
that's where they would row thesails in and lift them up to the
upper floor of this building.
So it's kind of like one oftheir icons.

(01:00:01):
That's Island Spirit out therein the far distance.
She didn't sink yet.
Yeah, that's Island Spirit outthere in the far distance.
She didn't sink yet.
All right, I got a lot ofrepeating pictures here.
Oh, that's my favorite picture.
That was a nighttime shot fromup at Shirley Heights.
After a couple of vodkas weended up getting a shot of that.

(01:00:23):
So that's kind of a cool shot.
Just looking back to the harbor, yeah, there's the smoking
volcano Montserrat, over myneighbor's boat All right, I

(01:00:43):
think we've covered it and thelittle island spear with their

(01:01:03):
little wind turbine on anchor.

Radeen (01:01:04):
That's the anchorage at Jolly Harbor, with Montserrat in
the far left distance.

Hayden (01:01:09):
That's how calm it normally is.
I mean, these anchorages aroundhere are just fabulous, real
easy, all right, did I lose yourmicrophone?

Radeen (01:01:25):
We can't hear you, Tinsley.
I lost your microphone.

Hayden (01:01:27):
We can't hear you.
Tinsley, I lost your microphone.
Oh, there you are.

Radeen (01:01:31):
Well, thank you so much.

Capn Tinsley (01:01:33):
This was really fun.
Yeah, sorry about the technicaldifficulties.

Hayden (01:01:38):
I don't even know how you run all this.
I have no clue.

It's all working great and all of a sudden it's
not.

Hayden (01:01:43):
I know it blows up and we're running this all on Google
Fi cell phones.
It's amazing.

Yeah, and yours is working better than mine.
So we have something else here.
Mike says gorgeous, and thenthese guys said we love the
volcano pictures.

Hayden (01:01:59):
Yeah, it was pretty cool .
It's pretty impressive.

Yeah, we don't want to get any closer.
So if anybody has any morequestions, we have them here.
So let me do.
Let me see if I can do my quickcommercial.
Sure, I'm Tinsley Meyer.
Hey, now I'm Tinsley Meyer.

(01:02:26):
Why don't I just say it insteadof finding the picture?
Here we go Tinsley Myrick ofRemax of Orange Beach.
Here in Gulf Shores in OrangeBeach, alabama, I sell a lot of
Gulffront condos.
I sell Gulffront homes too.
I sell non-waterfront homes.
I sell a little bit of land,but mostly I sell Gulffront

(01:02:46):
condos.
I sell a little bit of land,but mostly I sell gulffront
condos.
So please give me a call orsend me an email.
I'll be glad to help you out.
I've been selling condos since2003 down here.
Fantastic, got a little bit ofknowledge.
Well, I guess that is it.
I think the technology istelling us we are done All right
, good job you always make itfun.

Hayden (01:03:08):
Yeah, appreciate it.

We might have one more.
Okay, yeah, well, favoriteon-land restaurant.

Radeen (01:03:17):
Oh.

Well, the.

Radeen (01:03:19):
Pillars over at Nelson's Stockyard is great for
breakfast.
We've actually never had dinnerthere.
In Jolly Harbor there's a greatrestaurant called Sea Dreams.
I think that would be myfavorite.

Hayden (01:03:34):
Yeah, Sea Dreams right at Jolly Harbor is good.

Radeen (01:03:36):
Right and Basilico.
That's where we had a nicedinner with Alex and Amy, the
Italian place.
There's about seven restaurantsright in Jolly Harbor
Commercial Complex where thereal estate offices are and the
lot broker offices are and thedentist and the doctor and those
kind of things.
But there's about sevenrestaurants scattered right in
that area and all of them arevery good, yeah, there's a lot.

Hayden (01:04:00):
There's no shortage of restaurants down here.
Price points Meals are $25 toto 30 a meal, probably yeah,
each.

Radeen (01:04:12):
They use a currency called eastern caribbean dollars
and it's roughly a third.
Uh, um, the multiplier would bea third.
So what you see on the menu isninety dollars, but it's really
roughly $30.
So, you're always trying tocalculate in your head.

Hayden (01:04:29):
Divide everything by three Roughly.
Now we're in Guadalupe and it'sall euros.
So it's kind of euros are sortof one-to-one now.

Right.

Hayden (01:04:38):
Oh, okay.

Closer.

Radeen (01:04:40):
And also Rich asked in Antigua.
Yes, all those restaurants werein Antigua.

Hayden (01:04:47):
Yeah, yeah, maybe he's asking where you are right now.
Maybe he came in late.
Yeah, right now we're inGuadalupe.
We sailed 50 miles south ofAntigua yesterday and we're in
Guadalupe, which is a Frenchisland, and then we're going to
move south to a couple moreislands to try to get away from
this big ocean swell that'scoming, to try to get away from
this big ocean swell that'scoming.

(01:05:07):
But we were in Antigua for amonth, from December 1 till
January yesterday Till yesterday.
So, yeah, we were in Antiguafor a month.

Yeah, if you came in late, please watch this in
the replay, because they gavesome great information.

Hayden (01:05:24):
I could personally just stay in Antigua for a whole
season.
We have friends who do Ourbuddies, buddies do that, and I
can see why.
And we both said during themonth of December.
We both said you know what, ifwe don't leave Antigua, we will
be completely happy to just sailbetween these places.

You say that about every place, like if you don't
go any further, this right hereis great.
And then you go, and you know,if you don't go any further than
that, that's great.
Though that's true, you'vegiven us some great tips.

Hayden (01:05:50):
You could just stay in Biscayne Bay and have a happy
life also, there's nothing wrongwith that and in the Bahamas.

Radeen (01:05:58):
So I see Roger has a question Are we moving to get
away from the incoming swellsyes.
Yes.

Yes, oh, good question.
Alright, anybody else Take?

Hayden (01:06:10):
time Roger, thank you, thanks everybody, thanks McHugh.

Alright.
Well, mike.
Mike, thanks for coming on here.
I hope to see you again Soon.
I'll be down there for sure.
Alright, so that's it.
And so how do we end it?
Salty?

Hayden (01:06:25):
Abandon Salty.
Abandon Salty.

Abandon.

Radeen (01:06:27):
Out Out Island Spirit Island, spirit Out Out Out Out.

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