Caribbean Sea outlook - August update
by Noonsite 6 Sep 2024 01:07 AEST
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Caribbean Islands: Useful information about the most popular Caribbean Islands can be found in the free online magazine Caribbean Compass, who are doing island spotlights each month in collaboration with Doyle Guides and Noonsite.
The latest spotlight focuses on St. Kitts & Nevis, with Anguilla, Martinique, St. Martin/Sint Maarten, Antigua, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Dominica and St. Lucia already covered. Next month the spotlight will be on Trinidad.
French Antilles: Clearance formalities for the French Antilles (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin) have been simplified as of September 1, 2024, with new online clearance possible for Customs and Immigration. More details at Martinique Clearance.
Panama: Beloved Shelter Bay Marina Manager, Juan Jose Boschetti (or Juanjo as he is more commonly called), has reported on the Shelter Bay Marina WhatsApp group, that he is moving on at the end of the year. He comments, "Seven years ago I came to Panama to run this property, the property turned into my house and what I told my crew from my arrival was, let's try to make sure our customers', cruisers', friends' needs turn into our needs and let's try to sort them out for them." The majority of the 8000+ vessels that Juanjo has assisted will likely agree the customer care was top notch and he will be greatly missed.
Weather: Following Hurricane Beryl at the start of July, Ernesto became the third hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season on August 14, while moving north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands where it knocked out power and caused severe flooding. With maximum sustained winds of 75mph it became a category storm 2 days later heading for Bermuda before making landfall in Bermuda as a Category 1 hurricane on August 17. It had a brief brush with Atlantic Canada before losing strength a few days later. As we approach the peak of the hurricane season there are currently two tropical waves in the Atlantic that could possibly develop into tropical systems.
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