Swimming and snorkeling are available every day, as well as beach-combing and some moderate hiking opportunities. At most dive sites in Antigua certified divers may dive from the boat with one of our Divemasters, and those dives are complimentary for most TradeWinds members. Last weekend of January — Super Yacht Challenge — 5 pursuit races along the south coast.
Reefs, reefs and reefs! Here is a sample itinerary of what you may expect while enjoying a sailing vacation with TradeWinds in Antigua. Weather or other outside factors may mean that your Captain sets an alternative course. Your catamaran is located at Jolly Harbour Marina, on the west coast of the island. Upon arrival you will be greeted by our Base Managers, who will take you through the check-in procedure.
At 5pm you will be introduced to your fellow sailors. A refreshing welcome cocktail awaits you onboard before you are shown to your cabin and helped to settle into your new home for the week. Just before dusk, your yacht will move out of the harbor to her overnight anchorage - where you can watch the sunset and enjoy a delicious dinner aboard. Following breakfast and a short briefing on all safety aspects, we set sail for Deep Bay.
If you wish to participate in the handling of the yacht and sails then you can do so, but, if you prefer, just lie back and relax. A sumptuous lunch is served onboard before we will move the boat closer to the beach where you can relax on the boat, take a stroll on a beautiful beach or explore with the kayak or SUP. We will spend the night at anchor in this idyllic bay, and will have dinner onboard. After breakfast we set sail along the northern shores of Antigua and stop at Long Island — the home of the exclusive Jumby Bay Resort.
After lunch, you can snorkel, swim, kayak or just do some plain old-fashioned relaxing! We will spend the rest of the afternoon in this secluded spot surrounded by beautiful turquoise waters. Later, after we've enjoyed sipping our sundowners, the barbecue is lit and we will serve another wonderful dinner at this stunning location. You can take a romantic starlit stroll along the shore after dinner, before falling asleep back in your cabin under another beautiful Caribbean moon.
In the morning we move position over to Great Bird Island, a tiny wildlife sanctuary. Put on your sturdy shoes for a short hike to the top of this uninhabited island that offers splendid views overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
Cocktails will be had on the beach with lovely bonfire and marshmallows. Here, the light pollution from the islands is virtually non- existent. Your captain may invite all guests up on deck for a night cap and a late evening of some amazing stargazing. After breakfast we will set sail to Indian Creek and pending on the sea conditions will decide between diving in the deep canyons of Sunken Rock or the statues garden of Indian Gardens. After lunch is served, we will sail to Pigeon Beach in Falmouth Harbour.
This is a lovely beach in a great anchorage, and those are hard to find on the south side of the island. We will dine ashore tonight. We will dive and snorkel at the Pillars of Hercules, and after lunch we will have an opportunity to tour Nelson's Dockyard, where much of the naval history of the British fleet will be revealed. You can hike to either Fort Berkeley or Shirley Heights lookout where we all meet for sunset cocktails to the sound of steel drums before heading back to the boat to our last lavish dinner over the water.
After breakfast we will dive and snorkel in the open water aquarium of Lobster Point before we take a leisurely morning sail to the long stretch of sandy beaches all along the west shore of Antigua for a last dip and another wonderful lunch, before returning to our base at Jolly Harbour Marina.
After a last tasty breakfast onboard, it is time to gather your belongings, as well as your wonderful memories of a week in this most beautiful environment. Before exchanging fond farewells, your crew will arrange transport to the airport. You will already be planning your next cruise with TradeWinds. AQ U A experience. Columbus was aboard La Gallega , the largest of the three vessels.
The expedition was a community enterprise. The crews were not the faint-hearted landlubbers and criminals of legend who became frightened during a long expedition and who threatened mutiny until calmed by Columbus. There was no mutiny. These were men with years of shared experience, knowledge of the sea, and confidence in their abilities. That is not to say that Columbus heard no complaints. Moreover, she was an uncomfortable vessel; a slow, tubby, ship-rigged cargo carrier on which Columbus had the only private space — a 10 by 20 foot room under the poop deck in the back of the ship, which had small windows on either side and a door in front.
Luxurious accommodations on a ship whose deck space, roughly the size of a modern tennis court, was shared by a 40 man crew. Caravels had one deck, no forward structure, and only a modest raised poop deck and transom stern. With only one cabin below the poop deck, the crew spent most of the voyage exposed to the elements. At night they had the option of sleeping on deck or below deck on the ballast pile where cargo, the main anchor, and heavy armaments were stowed.
The favorite place to sleep was the hatch covers, the only level spots on the ship. The adoption of hammocks from the native peoples of the West Indies revolutionized sleeping aboard ship. Cooking was done on deck in large copper kettles over a fire in a sandbox kindled with vineshoots and fed with olivewood. Because there is little mention of weapons in the earliest chronicles, most naval historians have concluded that the ships were not well armed.
The work of Donald Keith, Director of Ships of Discovery, and other nautical archaeologists, has challenged that view.
Keith reports that the earliest Caribbean shipwrecks have well-formed batteries of armament. These weapons show a sophisticated appreciation of guns and range of shot. Even though we cannot specify their effects, they were a key element in the conquest of the Americas. These were not, however, warships. The warships of the day were galleys, long, sleek vessels driven to sea by an oversize lateen sail and then propelled into battle by scores of oarsmen.
Their bows were constructed as battlefields with a battering ram leading the way below an artillery platform, from which large caliber cannons fired scrap metal, and a boarding platform from which archers, musketeers, and swivel gunners attacked the enemy from close range.
The ships of exploration were general-purpose cargo vessels investors were reluctant to risk first class ships. They were uncomfortable and were not made for the business of discovery, yet their maneuverability, their flexibility of rigging, their ability to travel more than miles per day under favorable conditions, and to sail in shallow water gave them a major role in voyages of exploration.
In the words of Dr. It was only after the major discoveries of the sixteenth century had been completed that a new vessel was created for the purposes of transoceanic commerce. Rumbo a la Historia. El cocinero laboraba sobre la cubierta usando grandes ollas de cobre. Columbus, Hero or Heel? Christopher Columbus. Removed from Hispaniola in chains in and wrongly persecuted in his later years. His story typifies that of a tragic heroic figure. Yet how accurate is the portrait of Columbus that is painted today?
How much of what we know comes from the deification of a long-dead hero whose personal attributes have been shaped to reflect the greatness of his discoveries? And how much of what we are being told today is simply a revisionist backlash that demands attention by attacking dead heros? A century ago Columbus was a hero who was feted in the Columbian world expositions as a man whose single-minded pursuit of his goals was to be emulated.
Today he is being reviled as a symbol of European expansionism, the forbearer of institutionalized racism and genocide who bears ultimate responsibility for everything from the destruction of rainforests to the depletion of the ozone layer.
Impressive accomplishments for someone who died five centuries ago. When one peels back the shroud of myth that today surrounds him we find that his portrait embodies a period of history more than an individual man. Professor Robert Fuson, a Columbus admirer, described him as a man of the Renaissance, whose sensibilities were still firmly rooted in the Middle Ages.
An example of the Columbus mythology illustrates those points. Columbus is often credited with being the first to accept that the earth was round. Yet this fact was first proved by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras in the 6th century B. Moreover, when Columbus obtained contradictory navigational readings off the coast of South America during his third voyage in , he quickly abandoned his round earth.
To his detractors, such beliefs are those of a mentally unbalanced religious fanatic; to his promoters, they are remarkably prescient the earth does in fact bulge along the equator and they illustrate his steadfast and consuming faith in God.
Beyond historical attributes, his personal characteristics and life history add to the intrigue. What was his real name? His place and date of birth are also uncertain. He was a Virgo or Libra he was versed in Astrology , born between August 25th and October 31st, to , with the most frequently given year. He claims to have been born in Genoa, although Chios a Greek island that was a Geonoese colony , Majorca, Galicia, and other places in Spain have also been suggested.
Wherever his place of birth, he seems to have thought of himself as a Castilian, the language in which he wrote. His son Fernando described him as having a reddish complexion, blonde hair white after age 30 , blue eyes, an exceptionally keen sense of smell, excellent eyesight, and perfect hearing. A man of relatively advanced age in at least forty years old the description of him as having been in perfect physical condition must be an exaggeration.
He was also reported to be moderate in drink, food, and dress and never swore!! He was of the Catholic faith, although some claim a Jewish background on one side of his family. He is said to have gone to sea at age On the Atlantic coast to the north he made at least one voyage to England and possibly one to Iceland, while to the south he sailed as far as the Gold Coast of Africa.
He is reputed to have been involved in a naval engagement between Franco-Portuguese and Genoese fleets in He made four voyages to the New World. Until recently, anything about Columbus character, except his skills as a mariner, was open to criticism.
Recently, revisionist historians are unwilling to grant even that. Kirkpatrick Sale claims that Columbus never commanded anything larger than a rowboat prior to the first transatlantic crossing. Yet it remains a fact that he succeeded in crossing the Atlantic Ocean and, more important, he returned safely. A second son, Fernando, was born to Beatriz in While Governor of Hispaniola, he was assisted by his younger or older brother or uncle Bartholomew Columbus. Christopher, Bartholomew, and their other brother Diego, were arrested in July, , for mismanagement of the colony.
They were sent to Spain in chains in October and released in December of that year. The story seems to begin with Columbus seeking financial sponsorship for a voyage to Asia and the Indies. Henry Vignaud and others have maintained that Columbus pursued more personal goals.
Upon reaching the islands Columbus spent two weeks searching for gold in the Bahamas. These are blown from the horse latitudes towards the poles. In the northern hemisphere, these are predominantly from the southwest and in the southern hemisphere, they are from the northwest. These are formed when the cool air from the poles sinks and moves towards the equator. These winds are important for sailors as with the help of trade winds only Christopher Columbus discovered America. Periodic Winds: Winds that change their direction accordingly and are very much dependent on different seasons, like monsoons.
Local Winds: Winds that are caused due to differences in temperature and pressure locally and can be classified into conventional, hot, cold, and slope.
The Coriolis effect is defined as the inertial or fictitious force responsible for the deflection of winds towards the right in the northern hemisphere and towards the left in the southern hemisphere.
The Coriolis effect is defined as how a moving object seems to veer toward the right in the Northern hemisphere and left in the Southern hemisphere. The turning of Hurricane winds towards the left in the Northern hemisphere is an example of the Coriolis effect.
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