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Antoine famous French singer "Les Elucubrations", "Je l'appelle Canelle", "Marinheiro", "La Motogodille", "Touchez pas à la mer", ... writer "Iles...était une fois", "Amoureux de la Terre", ... video director "Iles...était une fois" Since 1989 he has been sailing on board the Banana Split : a catamaran of 12m50 by 6m50, weighing 12 tons, and painted in yellow. |
"L'île à Vache, " is miraculously green and wooded. You can walk under magnificent mango trees, along paths bordered by strange " penguin flowers " of a shiny white towards the market of the little town of " Madame Bertrand " or towards the somptuous beaches like that of "anse Dufour".
In Port Morgan an enterprising and audacious French couple, Didier and Françoise, who sailed here, are building bungalows and a lovely little hotel on the hillside covered in mango trees, pink laurels and coconut trees. The view is outstanding and the table is welcoming. The port of call is excellent for yachts, the perfect shelter and Didier and Françoise wait upon sailors hand and foot.
Find Antoine’s accounts of voyage on these two web sites :
Banana Split anchored in the Marina
Antoine on his way toward "anse Dufour"
and 
Loren
Yves and Constance left Fance on their boat with their three children for a great trip : the crossing of the Atlantic ocean and the discovery of the West Indies. They lived on their catamaran Loren for two years and during their trip welcomed a baby on board.
They continued their journey towards Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida.
From May 1996 to July 1998 they sailed on board Loren : a catamaran of 11m20 by 4m65.
"During the afternoon we sail along the undulating green coast of " l'Île à Vache ".[…] The beaches are of a shiny white. We see a few typical thatched-rooved houses with pastel-coloured shutters. We are dazzled by the beauty of such an arrival. We go round the island and enter Caïcoc bay where Didier and Françoise, old seafarers decided to settle to set up a grandiose and audacious project : a marina with a hotel complex. It must be said that the bay is particularly well chosen : huge, deep, very well sheltered, surrounded by green hills. Didier and Françoise give us a warm welcome and would bend over backwards for us […] We go up the hill for a welcome drink at Didier`s where the view over the bay and our boats is wonderful in the evening light. We can understand why they chose to live here. We already feel that our stay will last longer than a day…
It’s a marvellous place where we spent two weeks with our catamaran Loren and our children in March 1998."
Read the travel log on board Loren on the following web site : Sea Explorer AG returned in 2003, accompanying Spiegel TV, for the shooting of a film dedicated to Henry Morgan's life which was spreaded(diffuseded) the 9th septembre on ZDF(in german).
The "anse à eau", the marina and the Haitian coast in the background
Loren anchored in the marina
http://www.loren.fr.fm
Sea Explorer AG
Klaus Keppler and his team, with the collaboration of the canadian Ocean Discovery Network discovered Henri Morgan's boat, near our complex. The 16 members team lived in our complex from may, 1st to june, 23.
Read the discovery story on the following web site : (in german): "Most enjoyed meeting you during my recent visit ti Ile a Vache. You have a very beautiful resort. I was telling my wife, about il. We would love to stay with you sometime." "Congratulations on your wonderful website, which I just visited for the first time.
One cannon on the sea floor...
and his bullets.
http://www.seaexplorerag.de
Other guests
"I just wanted to thank you for a wonderful stay at the beautiful Port Morgan. The three of us really needed a time to get away and what a perfect place to do it.
We have passed along the information about Port Morgan to several here. I think you will be seeing them in the future."
I am a German woman living here in Haiti (Port-au-Prince) since 11 1/2 years. It's a pleasure to see all your efforts trying to make this beautiful country even more pleasant... You're doing a GREAT JOB!"
