Grenada: The Explore Cruising Guide for the Caribbean.

Grenada 

In the days of wine and roses, when crewed chartering was the height of fashion and only for the very fortunate, Grenada was the southern terminal: The end of the line and the place to off-load one "lot" and take on another. With practiced ease you would wash down, clean up, send out laundry, re provision, refuel, re varnish, change filters, take a shower, grab a beer, meet the new people, and sail off again. A constant stream of charter yachts followed one another out of Saint George's, and there is no doubt that in a modest way this contributed quite a bit to Grenada's prosperity from the early 1960s and 70s.  

However, certain elements, both political and commercial, became perhaps a little too greedy, resulting in civil disorders in 1974 and a coup d'état in 1979 that temporarily suspended most tourist-oriented activities in the island, and the yachts mostly took off for new pastures. The coup d'état brought down the government of Eric Gairy, and replaced it with the New Jewel Movement, led by Maurice Bishop. Bishop and several of his close advisers were assassinated by a small group within his own regime on October 19, 1983, and it was at this time that the United States either "invaded" or "intervened," depending on your view of things.  

Since that time, Grenada has again become a pleasant place to visit and explore by boat. 

The sail from Tyrell Bay on Carriacou to Saint George's is one of the most wonderful you can have. On a broad reach, the yacht slips along before the trades while flying fish burst away from the lee bow and frigate and Bobo birds come out from the scarred cliffs of Kick'em Jenny to wheel lazily over the masthead.  

Grenada, cool and green after the sun-bleached Grenadines, calms the seas as you run into her lee. A good breeze, normally from the northeast, will stay with the yacht until the town of Gouyave is abeam, and from then on one flirts with calms and capricious puffs along a coast that is as beautiful as any in the entire island chain.

We arrange a 2 week charter cruising trough the best of the Caribbean islands onboard the sailboat Audrey with capacity for 6 persons including: Captain and cook and all meals with open bar. The price is $125 per person a day with a minimum of 4 persons. For more information please contact us: audrey@explore-yachts.com