January — November 2004
The Caribbean Year
BVI · St Lucia · Martinique · St Vincent · Grenada · Panama
A year that started in the British Virgin Islands and ended on the Panama Canal — twelve months of slow inter-island sailing, beach landings, and a long readiness build-up for the Pacific. Down the eastern chain to Grenada, then west through San Blas and Colón. The More magazine archive covered this leg in real time but no full ship’s log survives; the photographs do.
Stops along the way
Jan – Apr 2004
British Virgin Islands
Spring 2004
St Lucia → BVI
Covered in More, May 2004
Summer 2004
BVI → Grenada
Down the Windward chain — Aug 2004 issue
Oct 2004
Grenada → Panama
Oct 2004 issue
Dec 2004
San Blas — beach party with the Kuna
Dec 2004 issue
Photographs