We will be in the SVI in August. Great time to go... normally more settled weather and milder trade winds. Just keep an eye out for tropical systems. Lots of good tools for that these days. Back in the 'bad old days' we had to listen to the weather on the VHF every morning at 8am and plot the storm centers on paper by hand to keep track of their westward progress and estimate the tracks.
Now there's
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