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We have gone to SXM several times at Heineken Regatta in March, and we THOUGHT at Regatta that there were a lot of yachts around. We were wrong. There were a LOT of yachts around between Christmas and New Year’s. My GOODNESS, there was a lot of money out there in Simpson Bay!!

These two beauties—





were hanging together for most of our 10 days. They would anchor close together, sometimes sail off in the direction of St. Barts for a day or so, and then head back. I think one was called Martha Ann. The other one, I thought was called Envy, but maybe not..



This one, we only saw once and I didn’t have the long lens on my camera and didn’t get a decent shot of it. I would love to know what the name of it is.



This is Athena, supposedly one of the largest sailing yachts in the world





Seeing all these beauties made taking pictures of the regular cruise ships going by kind of old hat.









I never did catch the name of this one, which hung out in Simpson Bay during most of our stay, finally disappearing around December 30, we assumed for St. Barts, with the rest of the beautiful people..





This one is technically a cruise ship, but of a bit of a different color, only holding about 110 passengers, with almost a 1 to 1 ratio of crew to passengers....





Not quite in the class of some of the others, but some of the smaller yachts were pretty neat also. This one I think is made by Azimut and it was just [color:"red"] SWEET!! [/color]




AND these were kind of neat also..

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In the 'large' cateogry, this one was really jazzy..



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I think my favorite though was Solandge, so if I had an extra $1M a week (plus expenses!! ) <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" />, I’d charter her, if I were you.

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This one was called Seawolf… .

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I was amazed at how it looked like they always anchored so close together, but I expect they were much further apart than they looked to me..


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Seawolf, Solandge and Alfa Nero

I would have thought that they would have wanted to be further apart from each other, but I guess I probably won’t have the opportunity to try it out myself..


And finally, I don’t have any idea which boat this is, but I liked this picture..

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Happy sailing, folks! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Tikotiko.gif" alt="" />