May 30, 2017 | General
First published Caribbean Compass Oct. 2014 Losing a rudder and abandoning ship seems to have been a feature on several Facebook pages recently, the last one being a small yacht that landed in Union Island minus rudder and crew who had abandoned her after the...
May 30, 2017 | General
THE BEGINNING Many years ago, I was delighted to buy a second-hand copy of The Day the World Ended by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts. In those days it was hard to find a good account in English of Mt Pelee’s massive eruption on May 8th 1902 that destroyed...