My favourite is Grand Case - I've spent months anchored there smile After that it would be Simpson Bay, then Friar's Bay and Marigot. Anse Marcel can have a swell for monohulls, no issue for cats. I like Tintamarre, but usually only anchor/moor there in settled conditions. I've never tried Orient Bay / Cul de Sac and that about covers the east side anchorages. If there's a north swell coming in then inside the lagoon is the only comfortable anchorage. I keep on wanting to try Philipsburg but haven't done so yet, even though it is just around the corner from Simpson Bay, and it looks like good holding in shallow water. But Grand Case is by far the best anchorage. You can be a kilometre out and have 20 feet of water with good sand, and head in close to shore and the dinghy dock and still have 20 feet of water with good sand. That's hard to beat! The only issue is that sometimes the wind funnels through parallel to the GC airport runway and blow through the anchorage. A couple of years back I woke up after a gusty night to find my dinghy with 20HP outboard had flipped during one of those gusts! And Grand Case has always had the "dinghy dock of death"...

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