Tuesday, December 20, 2011

'Tis the season to be jolly ...... WIND AND WAVES SEASON.

We are finally this week getting the winter goods. I have finally gone to sleep and awoken with howling trades blasting through the rigging, couple of mornings ago i awoke to crashing waves from the first decent north swell. The forecast mental for the coming week, 20 to 25 knots with 3m+ swell out east and starting tomorrow another N to NW groundswell headed our way.






Oh how i love this time of year in the Eastern Caribbean. Our trip last week was totally windless, lucky the guys were just as happy hiking, exploring the different islands. The fishing was also excellent so we sure did dine well last week on delicious fresh fish.

Our windless day in Tobago Cays was a highlight, with the full moon and good currents there were plenty of fish out on the dropoff (even a few harmless sharks to be seen). Also to my great surprise i found a large piece of russian space debris that must have crashed into the sea close to petite tabac!






Stay tuned for more .......... should be an active week before xmas down here ......
Better YET COME JOIN US!!!  WE STILL HAVE SPACE IN FEB/MARCH AND THE TRADES ARE STILL USUALLY IN FULL FORCE !!!! contact me on +17587133046 or @ islandstylen@gmail.com. Mention this Blog page and I'll give you a discount!! 
BEN

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Back to the Caribbean @ Bogles Round House

Been a while since september when i was last on here, took off on a last minute mission to bring a 100' ship to the Caribbean from the UK, an interesting trip via canaries and cape verde islands, i will be back to cape verde for sure! Had some amazing fishing mid-atlantic once we were out of reach of the commercial fishing fleets that plague cape verde! check out some pics below of the trip.
Little Blue Marlin 
Early morning mid atlantic Dorado

Portugal sunrise, Cascais 
Atlantic waterspout

Not bad for 5 minutes work!

The one time of the crossing i was glad not to be on a sailboat!

Underway from Guernsey, UK


Our last week before heading back to carla we spent in the lovely RoundHouse http://www.boglesroundhouse.com/ cottages and restaurant in Carriacou, a stunning spot, on a small hillside right on the waters edge on the north coast of Carriacou. (food here is amazing too, a definate one to check out if you find yourself in Carriacou)




We all had a great time, especially victoria who had too of the most patient dogs in the world to play with for 5 days. It should also be noted that the Roundhouse is a fairly short drive from some amazing and unknown (expect by me and few others that know) kitespots, including a wave that cranks around a point with cross to cross off winds!

Its now December 4 and I am off to the Grenadines tonight on the first trip of season, wind isnt looking so good but looks like a nice swell due mid week with glassy conditions so expect some shots from the GOPRO (this will be the first time i have had it down island)  Stay tuned for next week!

Monday, September 12, 2011

South wind sucks!

T.S. Maria and her associated weather seems to have passed us, its a beautiful morning out in Rodney Bay today.
We got some good beach break surf on saturday at a very remote beach on the east coast, totally glassy and big solid east swell doing its thing... pretty sweet vibe at 6 in the morning,  4 wheel driving off road for 1/2hr  through the jungle (stopping off only to collect guava and avocados) to arrive on a totally deserted beach with the only sound the roar of spitting barrels, gotta love the unspoilt Southern Caribbean! ... Well, some people are trying to spoil it, local builders down the beach this morning mining sand!! check the "lake" in one of the pics on the beachfront, a result of people removing the beaches bit by bit for personal gain, i sure wouldnt want my house built with beach sand (unwashed) imagine how little time your reinforcing has being packing in salty sand concrete!!

Got a few pics from over the weekend, forgot my board attachment unfortunately for the morning surf sesh and the light wasnt to good either.

We could see waves barreling and spitting from wayy up here! ... I think its solid today


Sand mining consequences .... where's the beach ??

Time to paddle out

freaky trees 

Unfortunately by the afternoon the SSE wind had picked up and ruined it all for us, we still had sweet afternoon limin' on the east coast with a few rum and cokes and BBQ chicken.
Looks like some wind forecast for later on this, hopefully we can finally get out on the kites again!

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Here comes T.S. Maria ...

TROPICAL STORM MARIA @ CROWNWEATHER.COM
The atlantic seems to be a mass of cloud right now, a large wave is over the northern leewards and T.S. Maria not far behind and moving west @ 20 KNOTS!!! at the moment, with a turn to the WNW later that is predicted to put her over barbuda, hope for the sake of barbuda it doesnt strengthen any more.
Looks like we will get some more sick waves and a bit of rain from tomorrow into saturday, lookin like another nice swell with cranking southerly to south easterly offshores on saturday morning ..... WAHOOO!

SWELL WIND FORECAST @ WINDGURU

Good to see beth from KITESURFING ST LUCIA back on the island after being away in Europe and UK training for her olympic campaign in 2012. One day back and she was already out on the laser.

It seems she has also brought the wind, my trusty KISS wind generator has been cranking away since last night with around 15 knots, i wint be running the engine today!

Stay tuned for monday .... should have some more pics of our latest wave session, who knows ... might even get a kite out in the waves somewhere with 18knt southerlies.

BEN
Victoria getting ready for T.S. Maria

Up the mizzen with GOPRO camera

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Katia visits ... Maria not far away!

As predicted we got some nice waves here in the south caribbean from hurricane KATIA, although it seems the best of the swell passed friday night we still got some solid glassy waves friday, saturday and sunday. once again i had GOPRO out!! So nice to share perfect waves with a few of ya mates!
Jonny cranks off the bottom

into a roundhouse


We are now looking into the atlantic and TS MARIA is looming on the horizon, gathering her strength to send us some more sick waves for the weekend. check the STORMPULSE LINK to keep up to date on her movements. Stay tuned for more ....


Tuesday, August 30, 2011

August 2011 ...

Well into the midst of hurricane season now in and it looks like its hotting up, IRENE has blazed north of us here and we got a nice day of overhead waves on a left point out east. But today i see KATIA heating up in the Atlantic and this weekend should be one to remember, 3m swells forecast with a 15 second period and light offshore winds !!! My 6'7 is off the shelf and waxed ready roll, with new GOPRO fcs mount resined into the nose area.



Sunday we took the boat for a run down the coast to a seldom visited (by yachts) bay for a BBQ with friends and a bit of cliff jumping, the GOPRO keeps on amazing with the cool angles this it will shoot, 
Check these out ......
Local boy shows us how its done


All alone in a beautiful bay
STAY TUNED NEXT WEEK FOR SOME HURRICANE SWELL ACTION SHOTS AND UPDATE ...............

Friday, August 12, 2011

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Dont forget to come join us this season in the beautiful windy grenadines !!!!!!!