Word: tortola
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Forget the cocktails on Tortola and the snorkeling off Virgin Gorda. They were great. But on our sail around the Virgin Islands, the cozy night in Coral Bay was second to none...
...last four days of our trip were spent on Tortola. On our final day we took the ferry across to St. John to see the parts of the island we had missed by boat--beautiful national parks, pristine beaches...
...landlubber investors to buy yachts and lease them to vacationers for as little as $600 per person per week, or about the cost of a first-class beach resort. Says Simon Scott, marketing manager of The Moorings, a charter company that operates 110 yachts in the Caribbean islands of Tortola and St. Lucia: "Yachting is no longer the exclusive sport of the rich...
...cruising has taken on, and it promises to do to crewed charters what Hertz did to chauffeured cars. This is bareboating -hiring a yacht without crew and sailing it yourself. In 1966 only two dozen bareboats were working in the entire Caribbean. Today there are some 270, and in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands (the center of the industry, with 120 boats available) there are more bareboat berths filled in a season than hotel rooms. Costing only between $150 and $300 per head per week, food and fuel included, bareboating compares favorably with a hotel vacation. Among the leading...
...some cases, Mammon. They make their homes where birth or the spirit of adventure placed them-on an entire continent, on great islands and pinprick islets, in obscure deserts, tropical jungles, foam-flecked northern fishing villages, places with exotic names like Zanzibar, edible-sounding names like the Cameroons or Tortola, improbable names like Gozo or Piddlehinton, famous ones like St. Helena or Piccadilly. No man among them can fluently speak the tongues of all-Urdu and Sanskrit, Dutch and French, Hottentot, Greek, Turkish, Cockney, Twi, Gaelic...
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