Cheap Caribbean Sailing
Sailing the Caribbean, the Frugal Way
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Forget all those cares and woes -- just sail away! Ha, you say, that would cost a fortune. Not so, says The New York Times, in this article about cheap ways to set sail to far away places. The catch? You'll have to work the sails, scrub the decks, cook the food, or take on some other chore.
"Considering that none of us newbies had any idea what we were doing, the voyage south from St. Lucia was going well. At 10:30 a.m., amid gray but not ominous skies, the S.V. Illusion -- the 75-foot, two-masted schooner on which I and two others were novice sailors -- had weighed anchor off the coast of Vieux Fort, a sleepy city at the island's southern tip, and steered into deeper waters. The sea was mild, with five-foot swells rocking us just enough to make walking a conscious effort, and when Norman Garnett, the Illusion's 61-year-old English captain, gave the order, we scrambled to pull, feed, winch and cleat a series of ropes that unfurled our three sails, which caught and tightened in the wind. We were sailing..."
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