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BIOT Chagos: Permit Fee Increases from July 1, 2024
Cruisers planning to cross the Indian Ocean and stop at the remote British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), also known as the Chagos Archipelago, face an increase in the application fee for a mooring permit which comes into force on July 1, 2024.
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Caribbean: Windward Islands Face Serious Threat from Hurricane Beryl
More than 100 boats are heading towards Trinidad and Tobago as Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 4 Hurricane to be recorded in June, threatens many of the Caribbean’s Windward Islands.
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USA: EU Sailors Report on Entry and Exit Formalities
Dutch cruisers Flores van Hees and Ivar Smits – Sailors for Sustainability – are nearing the end of their circumnavigation continuing homeward and report on the process they had to go through as Dutch citizens to enter and leave the USA by yacht.
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Vanuatu: A Friendly Welcome, Land Diving and Volcanoes
After spending the South Pacific Cyclone Season in New Zealand, regular Noonsite contributors Maria and Allen Wadsworth headed north to Vanuatu where they experienced warm and friendly welcomes wherever they went.
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Indonesia: First Hand Cruiser’s Report on the e-Visa System
After nearly 10 years cruising South East Asia, with five forays into Indonesia, well known cruisers Sherry and Dave McCampbell say the only thing that stays the same with Indonesian formalities is that they constantly change. One particular area is the A211 e-visa. Here Sherry outlines the process they followed to secure the visa in May 2024.
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St. Helena: Four Months in a Friendly, Welcoming Community
Cas van Niekek and his wife spent nearly four months anchored at St. Helena in the South Atlantic and enjoyed being a part of a friendly, welcoming community where everyone shares and looks out for each other.
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France, Brest: Unsettling Incidents at Marina
Cruisers who stayed at the Chateau Marina in Brest on France’s Atlantic coast in late May, reported to Noonsite that they had two very unsettling nights and a suspicious incident which they believe were from fishermen on an adjacent mole.
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South East Asia Pilot
Encompassing approximately 600,000 square miles of some of the best cruising grounds in the world, the latest 7th edition of the South East Asia Pilot sees the addition of the Cape York Peninsula (Australia), the expansion and complete update of Cambodia as well as thorough updates to the Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia chapters. Available printed or as an eBook.
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