Dive Review of Dive Antilles/Dive Bequia/Grenadines Dive/Barefoot Yacht Charters in
St. Vincent and the Grenadines/St Vincent, Bequia, Tobago Cay

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Dive Antilles/Dive Bequia/Grenadines Dive/Barefoot Yacht Charters: "DIY catamaran dive safari through Grenadines", Nov, 2023, by Keith Willmott, FL, US ( Sr. Contributor 22 reports with 12 Helpful votes). Report 13100.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
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Comments	Six of us hired a liveaboard catamaran, Willow Dew, for a week, from Barefoot Yacht Charters, and with no sailing experience we also hired a skipper. Boat was 39’, two double cabins and two that would have comfortably each slept 2 pre-teen kids. Our skipper ended up in one cabin and some of just slept on deck/in lounge area instead. Boat was functional but numerous things not working - no AC, or water generator, small water tank with no gauge, no fuel gauge, feeble cool box and oven, no microwave, no electric generator, were most significant. Cost was c $4300, like paying $240/night for a double room - not bad considering the 360 degree ocean views, starlit nights, freedom, beaches, diving and adventure. We spent six nights on the boat: Blue Lagoon marina (first night), Petit Nevis (Bequia), Chatham Bay (Union Island), Tobago Cays, Rameau Bay (Canouan), and Port Elizabeth (Bequia). Started with a dive off Fort Duvernette with wonderfully friendly and accommodating Dive Antilles, who picked us up from our boat. Steep rock walls, boulders, sponges, lot of reef fish, speared a few lionfish and had delicious ceviche as we sailed to Bequia. There, we rented 6 tanks and weights from Dive Bequia, another fine dive operation, and sailed around the island to moor at beautiful Petit Nevis for the night. Interesting night dive off the back of our boat - octopus, cuttlefish, numerous crabs, sleeping parrotfish. Long sail next day to Union Island, picked up more tanks from Grenadines Dive and moored west side of island in Chatham Bay. Rather wild night dive, hundreds of squid followed us the whole dive, darting and swooping out the way, as well as a large, inquisitive stingray, lots of smaller rays, helmet shells, Queen conch, huge tarpon under our boat, snapper off in the gloom. Did two dives next day with Grenadines Dive in Tobago Cays marine reserve - sloping walls and hard corals, decent reef fish but lot of bleached corals and brown algae everywhere, not as enjoyable as the rocky walls around St Vincent and Bequia with their sponges and soft corals. Having picked up our refilled tanks from Grenadines Dive we spent rest of the day and night moored in Tobago Cays, beautiful islands with some interesting snorkeling (lot of turtles) but windy and rainy. Next night moored in Rameau Bay on west side Canouan, night-dived around the rocky point N side of bay, lots of sponges and usual weird and wonderful decorator crabs, sponge crabs, slipper lobster, octopus, turtle, and a chain moray under our boat. Last night moored in Port Elizabeth to drop off tanks at Dive Bequia, but in retrospect could have moored just west of Fort Duvernette in St Vincent for a last night dive. Overall, a bit of an adventure, got to dive some unusual sites and sail around some beautiful islands.
Websites	Barefoot Yacht Charters
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Florida, Belize, Panama (Coiba, Pearl Is) St Vincent and Grenadines, UK, Red Sea (Sharm), Myanmar, Sulawesi (Wakatobi), Philippines (Mindoro, Palawan), Solomons (Guadalcanal), New Zealand (Poor Knights), Papua New Guinea, west Australia
Closest Airport	Argyl Int Airport, St Vincent	Getting There	Flight Orlando-Argyl Airport, 45 min taxi to Blue Lagoon Marina, charter catamaran
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm, choppy, no currents
Water Temp	27-27°C / 81-81°F	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	8-15 M / 26-49 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
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Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Dive Antilles/Dive Bequia/Grenadines Dive/Barefoot Yacht Charters in St. Vincent and the Grenadines/St Vincent, Bequia, Tobago Cay

Dive Antilles/Dive Bequia/Grenadines Dive/Barefoot Yacht Charters: "DIY catamaran dive safari through Grenadines", Nov, 2023,

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Dive Review of Dive Antilles/Dive Bequia/Grenadines Dive/Barefoot Yacht Charters in
St. Vincent and the Grenadines/St Vincent, Bequia, Tobago Cay