Entertainment
Your sailboat will have an Entertainment Ideas booklet. This will give you a host of ideas for keeping crews entertained during the day and in the evenings and will include activities such as Knot Tying, learning Boat Parts, Local History and Folklore, Story Telling, Skits and Jokes, Nautical Terms, Merit Badge reviews, to mention but a few.
There is a small, local cultural festival called a Junkanoo that is held at various times of the year and throughout most of the summer. This usually includes a performance by the Bahamian Police Marching Band, the Junkanoo ‘Rush Out’ as well as local performers like the Voodoo Dancer and a Fire Dance. This is great fun and provides good family entertainment so your group can appreciate more of the sights and sounds of the Caribbean.
At other times you can find open-air concerts by various local musicians, such as the Barefoot Man and Stone McEwan.
Each year, during the first week of July, an impressive Sailing Regatta is held throughout the islands. This involves hundreds of sailboats from every class and category all gathering together for friendly rivalry and serious competition. The regatta races are spectacular to see and makes for great entertainment as they travel southwards from Green Turtle Cay.
July 4th is always marked with fireworks and celebration, as is Independence Day in the Bahamas, which takes place on July 10th and is in the middle of Regatta Week festivities.
