Here’s some insider perspective from sailor/blogger Behan who’s travelling the Caribbean right now.
Behan, from the yacht Totem, has a wonderful blog detailing years of cruising. Her incisive post covers many of the issues bothering prospective charterers and cruisers contemplating a season in the Caribbean:
“A stream of migrating boats attest that the Caribbean sailing season is starting NOW. The fleet heading north from Grenada and Trinidad, those taking the offshore route from the USA, and boats in the trans-Atlantic fleets. Yet questions about the Caribbean’s readiness in a post-hurricane season still swirl: after the havoc of Irma and Maria, what’s changed? Where can we go? Even for sailors here in the islands, contemplating their next move, the answer seems to hang just out of reach like a suspenseful plot twist.”
Read it all here.