A satellite image of Hurricane Irma spinning violently in the Caribbean.
© 2017 NOAA
Hurricane Irma gathered steam in the Atlantic before finally making landfall in the Eastern Caribbean early today, threatening thousands of lives and homes, as well as infrastructure, and one of the largest concentrations of sailboats in one of the premier cruising destinations in the world.
As flocks of cruisers prepare to head south this fall, their nav stations will be packed with more state-of-the-art electronics than ever before.
No, that’s not a yacht club. But it is the venue of tonight’s Crew List Party.
