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  • Costa Brava & Cap de Creus Sailing Guide
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    The Costa Brava delivers a compact, high-contrast coastline: pine-cloaked cliffs, pocket coves with startlingly clear water, and well-equipped marinas within easy day hops. Rounding Cap de Creus – Spain’s easternmost headland – adds a sense of expedition, with wild geology, gin-clear snorkelling and a microclimate shaped by the notorious Tramontana. This guide sets out where to sail, how the local winds behave, and which harbours and anchorages work in real conditions. It also explains charter options, seasonal patterns, and the paperwork you genuinely need – so you can plan with confidence and sail with purpose.
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  • Sailing in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay & Lan Ha
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    Ha Long Bay and neighbouring Lan Ha form a maze of limestone karsts, jade channels and pocket anchorages unlike anywhere else in Asia. For experienced skippers, the lure is clear: protected waters that still feel adventurous, short hops between sheltered bays, and the chance to moor beneath thousand‑foot cliffs. The flip side is essential to understand. Charts can be imperfect around the pinnacles, visibility can collapse in winter mist, and traffic from tourist junks and fishing fleets is constant near the main sights. The most successful trips are planned with the monsoon in mind, a realistic assessment of pilotage demands, and a flexible itinerary that works with tides and local rules. This guide outlines the sailing areas within Ha Long and Lan Ha, month‑by‑month winds, tide and weather, key harbours and anchorages, and how chartering actually works on the ground. If you want reliable, practical advice before committing to a charter or a cruise north from Da Nang or Hainan, you will find it here.
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  • Sailing in St. Martin & St. Barts
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    St. Martin and neighbouring St. Barts combine short blue‑water hops with postcard anchorages and cosmopolitan harbours. Reliable trade winds, clear pilotage, and a well‑developed marine infrastructure make this a natural step up from sheltered cruising without committing to long offshore passages. You can thread coral‑rimmed coves, slip into a chic marina for dinner, and still be on a mooring beneath a sea of stars that night. The sailing is characterful rather than complex. Channels between islands can be lively, northern swells occasionally wrap in, and bridge timings add a touch of choreography — but these are features rather than flaws. With sensible planning, you’ll find a rhythm: early starts, lunch swims in marine reserves, and golden‑hour arrivals into Gustavia or Marigot. Bareboat, skippered, or flotilla‑style, this is a compact cruising ground with big‑ticket variety.
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  • Sailing in the Cayman Islands
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    The Cayman Islands offer a compact yet compelling cruising ground of clear water, vibrant reefs and reliable trade winds. Grand Cayman’s North Sound promises sheltered day-sailing and modern marinas, while the Sister Islands reward a well-prepared crew with blue-water passages and reef-fringed anchorages that feel far from the crowds. Navigation is visual and precise; depths shoal quickly near coral heads and winter ‘northers’ can render west-facing roadsteads untenable. Choose your weather windows, favour sand over seagrass and reef, and you will be repaid with superb snorkelling, luminous sandbars and startlingly consistent sailing breezes. This is not the Caribbean’s easiest charter, but for skippers who enjoy passage planning and pilotage, Cayman is quietly outstanding.
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  • Sailing in Bermuda
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    Bermuda rewards careful skippers with some of the clearest water, most sheltered sounds and most exacting pilotage in the Atlantic. Encircled by coral reef and laced with narrow channels, it is a destination where preparation and precision pay off. Within the reef you will find glassy anchorages and lively harbours; outside, the ocean is bluewater proper, shaped by the Bermuda–Azores High, Gulf Stream eddies and the occasional tropical system. This guide signposts the principal sailing areas, prevailing winds and seasons, and the practicalities of entering, clearing and cruising. It also sets realistic expectations around chartering – Bermuda has superb day and crewed options, but bareboats are limited – and outlines the certification commonly requested. If you like your navigation visual, your holding good and your rewards immediate, the Great Sound, St George’s and the West End will suit you well.
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  • Sailing in Mozambique
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    Two Indian Ocean archipelagos – the Quirimbas in the far north and Bazaruto in the centre – offer vast sandbanks, coral gardens and dhow-dotted horizons. This is rewarding, low‑infrastructure sailing: clear winter trades, dramatic tidal ranges and a need for sharp pilotage. Expect luminous shallows, whale sightings in season, and anchorages that shift with the sand. Facilities are sparse, so planning is everything – but the payoff is world‑class cruising well off the beaten track.
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  • Sailing in Madagascar: Radama Islands Sailing Guide
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    Madagascar’s northwest corner blends warm trade winds, gin‑clear anchorages and characterful villages into a sailing ground that still feels genuinely off‑grid. Base yourself in Nosy Be and fan out across snorkel‑bright islets like Nosy Tanikely and Nosy Sakatia, or press south to the Radama Islands for powder‑sand beaches and night skies unspoilt by light. The pattern is mercifully simple: dry, reliable trades from May to November; lush, lighter‑wind wet season from December to March. Infrastructure is minimal but sufficient, with Hell‑Ville and Crater Bay providing fuel, fresh food and friendly technical help. Beyond that, it’s sand, coral and the Mozambique Channel. This guide sets out where to go, when to go, and how to do it safely and legally—whether you are chartering a catamaran for a week or planning an extended cruise.
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  • Comoros Islands Sailing Guide
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    Fringed by coral and polished by the warm Agulhas waters, Comoros and neighbouring Mayotte offer wild, rewarding sailing that still feels off the beaten track. Expect a cinematic lagoon in Mayotte for protected cruising, inter-island hops across the Comoros archipelago for bluewater miles, and abundant marine life from nesting turtles to humpbacks. This guide sets out the winds, seasons, anchorages and entry formalities in a clinically structured way, so you can plan with confidence—whether you are chartering a catamaran in Mayotte’s lagoon or arriving on your own keel to explore Moroni, Mutsamudu and Mohéli’s marine park.
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  • Sailing in the Gulf of Thailand: Koh Samui, Koh Phangan & Koh Tao
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    The Samui archipelago—centred on Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao—offers compact passages, reef-fringed anchorages and a genuine sense of island-hopping adventure. Conditions vary markedly with the monsoon, so success hinges on understanding when each coastline comes into its own. Expect mostly line-of-sight navigation by day, abundant snorkelling in clear water, and nights at anchor rather than in marinas. This guide sets out realistic itineraries, seasonal wind behaviour, where to anchor in each phase of the year, and what you need to know to charter safely and confidently.
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  • Sailing the Amalfi Coast
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    The Amalfi Coast and the Gulf of Naples blend cliff-lined drama with island-hopping ease. Capri, Ischia and Procida sit within a compact cruising ground framed by Naples, Sorrento and Salerno, offering short passages, reliable summer breezes and a marina network that supports both first-time Mediterranean charterers and seasoned skippers. Expect cinematic villages, volcanic bays and marine parks with clear guidance on where to anchor or pick up a mooring. This guide outlines the sailing areas, seasonal winds and weather, the best marinas and anchorages, and exactly how to charter here with the right paperwork.
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