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Virgin Islands, from April 9 to 17

Virgin Islands, known as the BVI, British Virgin Island, to the English part, are a group of ten islands in the north of West Indies, east of Puerto Rico. It is a true paradise: the islands hilly and sometimes fringed beaches surrounded by coral reefs, lush vegetation ... Unfortunately, the BVI are victims of their success and we came across dozens / hundreds of sailboats rental and anchorages are crowded, but curiously the coastline and the sea are quite well preserved. Point "positive" in this glut of boat is the profusion of yachts / yacht billionaire has seen several 3 masts over 90 feet, huge catamarans (including that of Richard Branson), and Yacht worthy of Paris Hilton ... well it's nice. By cons like Julien said at the end of his last article, all this abundance of beautiful boats do not always allow us to go to the kings of the anchorage and it further strengthens our image that we had forgotten tramps from Los Roques
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an aside on 2 islands that we particularly appreciated:

The most beautiful island we visited is Virgin Gorda , vous pouvez voir les vues spectaculaires que nous avons du haut de cette ile, des lagons d’eaux turquoises entourés de corail… c’est aussi l’ile aux énormes rochers qui trainent sur les plages créant des grottes naturelles magnifiques.

Anegada , la plus sauvage, est l’île la plus au Nord des Antilles, avec 203 habitants (en 2003) et une flore impressionnante : elle ne culmine qu’à 8 mètres mais il y a des dizaines d’espèces d’arbres/arbustes/cactus/fleurs différentes, et une faune tout aussi riche : tortues de mers, flamands roses...

En tout nous avons visité 4 iles et en general we do a first location and then we come back the next day for the day. We do not linger too because life is really expensive, $ 50 lobster, and we especially look forward to landing at St. Martin, French Island, where we hope to find a bit more infrastructure and above all products French: cream, cheese, charcuterie, Jenlain

... So we start on April 17 of Anegada to Saint Martin, and history that will change a little of almost 24 hours. That means we have slashed in Marigot (capital of the island), which does not prevent us to forge ahead on the internet and the first supermarket and found that feast: 2 cheeses, 2 blocks and 3 sticks, you forget the red but we will catch up the next time.

Here we are almost one month to the program: the necessary repairs before the recliner back, a visit to St. Martin, the carnival, discovered the islands in the vicinity ...

Adrien

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School St Martin

Net: 1 bin of 20 L per week for 5 people when we are crossing.

Compared to the class that is 3 times less, compared to a family 4 people it is 8.5 times less.

WHAT IS?

Before You Go: We watch what we buy: we prefer large containers: packages of 10kg of rice rather than 1kg. We also avoid over packaged products with few consumables. We do not consume products that generate fees in general waste a lot of yogurt, cheese, sour cream ... For water we use cans of 20L that we meet in the ports.

During the passage: A portion of our waste can be discharged into the sea without polluting. We must consider the sea off as a dustbin for biodegradable waste, organics, metal, paper and glass. Everything else, plastic, batteries, bottles of milk ... are thrown into the dustbin of the boat.

We throw the glass and metal that when we're far from shore (12 miles * = 21km) waste flow and are not rejected on the coasts, they are not a danger to the marine environment (Fauna and drill), they degrade even faster in water than on land.

* The International Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution (MARPOL) prohibits any vessel to throw plastic anywhere at sea food, cardboard, metal (cans) and glass are disposable at over 12 miles of coastline. Source: "Questions of marine curious"

That's life on the boat that we "force" to be like that, it teaches us to quel point il est facile de réduire nos déchets mais nous sommes conscients qu’il est difficile de se priver de certaines choses si faciles d’accès en France. Une fois revenu sur terre je pense que nous réduiront, naturellement nos déchets, mais nous ne pourrons pas revenir au niveau atteint sur le voilier.

Votre œuvre collective représente exactement le genre de déchets que nous n’utilisons pas. Gobelets plastiques (nous en avons sur le bateau mais nous réutilisons), yaourts…  

Petite anecdote : what country we visited that pollutes the least? That spends the least? Who in the water / beaches cleanest ? Answer: Cuba.

Indeed Cuban life, completely away from mass consumption, is an example to follow. Cubans get their food with their containers, their rum in their bottles. They recycle everything they can and recover all that is recoverable (I've seen a Cuban pick up plastic cups in a hotel to wash them and use them in bars). I have no figures but I think that the rejection of a Cuban waste is at least ten times lower than a Western, knowing that Cubans live very well and have a life expectancy similar to those of Westerners. It should be noted that with this system Cubans have no access to the same products that Western countries.

Questions asked of students / Your answers to our questions are complete, we will only enrich with our experience, fat.

1 - Where does the ocean pollution?

Ocean pollution comes from human action because:

- Pollution of rivers

- discharges of domestic wastewater

- Industrial Waste

- oil spilled in the accidents occurring during extraction or during transportation of hydrocarbons

- marine debris such as waste plastics and synthetic

because marine pollution comes mostly lands, and especially rivers. Republic Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo river lay waste so that the marina, the river level, is protected by nets to prevent waste from returning.

2 - How many tonnes of waste are thrown away each year to the water?

Each year 20 billion tons of waste are thrown into the water:

- 150 000 tonnes of oil

- 1.8 million tons of toxic

- ; 6 million tons of pollutants from rivers

- 200 000 tonnes of oil dispersed in the air that falls into the ocean with the rain.

3 - What is the life of waste dumped in the sea?

Depending on their nature, waste take between three weeks and 1,000 years to degrade, some even indefinitely degradation.

Examples:

- newsprint: 3 to 12 months

- plastic bottle: 500 ans

Voir le lien : http://www.guadeloupe.ecologie.gouv.fr

Certains déchets mettent du temps à se dégrader mais ils ne font « pas de mal » à environnement : verre, papier et métal. Pour nous le poison des mers est le plastique : on en retrouve partout : dans la mer, sur les plages, dans l’estomac des poissons… en effet il se dégrade trop lentement (500 ans c’est l’équivalent à la découverte de l’Amérique) et il flotte (et donc on le retrouve OBLIGATOIREMENT SOMEWHERE). Some other wastes degrade even more slowly, but pose no threat to nature and do not cause visual pollution on the coast, if they are thrown away from the coast.

Here are the data we have: Source: "Questions of marine curious"

Paper: 2 to 5 months

Orange Peel 6 months Milk Carton

: 5 years

Tin: 10 to 100 years

Plastic bag: 450 years Aluminum Cans

: 200 to 500 years

plastic bottle: 100 to 1000 years

Glass bottle: 4000 years

4 - What is the most dangerous substance?

Plastic is the most dangerous substance. Indeed, the fish can eat the plastic bags that choke them.

summit We completely agree ...

5 - What pollutes the most in a boat? And on a sailboat?

What pollutes the most in a boat is oil.

And on a sailboat Waste Man.

Commercial boats reject a large portion of their waste in the sea (the cleaner), it is tolerated because it is small compared to emissions from the land.

On a sailboat, despite our efforts, we pollute too. On the one rejected by the engine some gas in the sea and on the other hand there is a pollution coming from the degradation of the hull of the boat and cleaning products we use.

6 - What is found on desert islands uncleaned?

There are all kinds of waste discharged into the sea and have a term of degradation or long (waste plastics and synthetic) and shipwrecks.

From plastic ... some islands we visited were deserted and no one is there to clean the edges of the hit on the beach is ALL products found floating: mainly plastic, all out (bottles, caps ...), sealed bottles, light bulbs, clothes ... it is difficult to list everything, just need to realize that any product returned to the sea to land somewhere.

The photos attached were taken on the coast of Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles, off Venezuela).

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LIVE hullabaloo ...

Tradition has it that upon arrival in a new country, the racket will pay a good night out watered during which Adrian and Raoul fell asleep early ... leaning on the counter.
Santo Domingo will not escape this tradition. No. Accompanied by Nico
around the world and pass on the hullabaloo, we interfered in the heart of the city in an evening outdoors where people danced to the rhythm of a group of local music. The atmosphere goes up, the beers are descended. You know the end.

Thus, after we complied with all requirements of the tradition, we leave the next day to explore this colonial city. Although very polluted, it is very pleasant to get lost in streets except for the 35 ° that you overwhelm much of the day.
What was most marked, it is abundance. Very well stocked supermarkets, specialty stores at all street corners, laundromats, fast food, internet Treats. In short, I will not list you all, you have the same in France. But after spending nearly two months in Cuba, the shock is real. The first day we stopped every 20 meters, we wanted to buy everything. Yes, because in Cuba will get sorted anyway missions "egg"!

The theme of these six days passés à St Domingue sera donc la bouffe. Acheter, préparer, bouffer (je vous assure que c’est plus approprié que manger) et digérer les repas du midi et du soir nous prenait quasiment toute la journée. Bœuf bourguignon, fricassée de crevettes et de calamars, steacks de 300 grs/pers ratatouille etc.. Apéro, entrée, plat, dessert, café, chocolat à tous les repas. On a passé la semaine à bouffer, dans des proportions toujours plus démesurées chaque jour, portés par l’enthousiasme contagieux de nos deux estomacs sur pattes, j’ai nommé Adrien et Raoul (oui ce sont les mêmes qui s’endorment au bar).
Après la rareté, profusion. One week it goes, the more it would have been too. It is time to leave. So we leave Santo Domingo to Boca Chica for a few hours of sailing further east. We sat at anchor in the marina most comfortable previously visited. Wifi on the boat, cheap laundry, lounge with TV, bar, chandlery and a free driver available to us to take us shopping.
First, we take the opportunity to make a number of clever things like an enormous full-racing (1000 $), laundry and refurbish the dashboard and the engine will replace the barrel of the key. And for things less intelligent like watching the week of zapping on the Internet or Arsenal - Barca TV. President or play (better known under another name) in the bar at the marina.
The city of Boca Chica in itself no great interest. Resort frequented by Dominicans beaches are squatted by locals who turn into rubbish in record time. The couple Resort Hotel that are installed have a piece of private beach and are separated by a barrier of the location of the Dominicans. Atmosphere.
Every day, we take care for our afternoon game of beach volleyball on the beach in one of them up what security do we understand the day nicely to leave, that is not the hotel, he invited us to go play elsewhere.

And then this past week in Boca Chica has been rich in transfers from the side of the racket. J Oliv supposed to join us in the Dominican Republic extended its lease in Montreal until April 20. He should join us on this date in St Martin. As for Oliver M said Raoul, he left as scheduled for the racket and joined six months after Carcassonne last week of sailing family in the Grenadines. We wish him good luck for this recovery.
Finally, Poncho, the joker Luxury hullabaloo came a small wedge between the week on road trip to NYC and Miami. On this occasion, we had the pleasure of meeting his friends in Barcelona, Caesar and Vanessa, with whom we made an excursion "natural waterfalls" in the north.
This ballad for which we had rented a car and had to travel 600 km round trip taught us two things. The first is the movement in this country that is ... without traffic and more and very dense.
The second is the beauty of some places with lush vegetation as we passed through during the day and we suggest that the Dom Rep identifies many more beautiful places that the visit only those beaches in the south suggest. Unfortunately, the various comings and goings as well as some repairs to the boat prevent us from moving much and thus do more. We will therefore
one week in Boca Chica. It is time for Poncho and Nico left us for their future destinations. The hullabaloo him, set sail towards the Virgin Islands. So

to 3 as we prepare to go back on the trade winds near 300 miles. Northeast wind at 25-30 knots with constant heavy swell. The stage is set, nothing to do with 10-15 knots of wind variable announced at the weather. The first 24 hours passed perfectly. Doing is heading south, we reach the southern Puerto Rican coast in record time. Then, it was far less ideal. 4 days of close hauled: Like Adrian said, "the fun is about 2 hours, 4 days it's boring." Twice 2h30 quarter each per night, sleep is short, the pace is tiring. Simple activities such as cook or dishes are real missions. Arriving near the Virgin Islands, we opt for an anchorage closer than we had originally planned to join us to avoid extra night nav.
A restorative night of 11 hours will be enough from which to explore this paradise. It was worth it after all. Virgin Islands, they are ... almost. If the land is for most sparsely populated, with ballads in full vegetation worth it, however they are crowded anchorages. Hundreds of U.S. wholesale and rental catamaran yachts billionaires squat for their holidays. Needless to say we are doing more than ever with our hobo hullabaloo of 1976, its 11.30, its algae on the hull and underpants drying on the branches.
So it's a place frequented by the rich, the restaurants and bars are expensive. We try wherever possible to simply side paradisiacal landscapes and beaches, and forget paying activities.

We plan to stay ten days in the middle of the islands before heading for St Martin, just under 100 miles farther east, around April 18. Apart from recovering Oliv Fabrice J and later for the recliner back, we take the opportunity to put the boat dry and make it a facelift in anticipation of its future resale in September.

Julien.