Dodging Coral Heads on the Caicos Bank

This time on Distant Shores we take you on a 3-day offshore passage from the British Virgin Islands to the Turks and Caicos Islands passing the Navidad and Silver Banks along the way. After making landfall at South Caicos, where we sample the local cuisine to celebrate, we tackle some shallow water piloting, dodging coral heads crossing the Caicos Bank, then stop to do some snorkelling. We conclude this leg of our Atlantic Circle with some fun at the main island of Providenciales, better known as Provo, famous for having some of the world's best beaches. #predictwind #offshoresailing #shallowwaterpiloting 00:00 Intro 00:53 Passage Plan BVI to Caicos 01:33 Crew Interviews 02:58 Code Zero Sail Light Air 03:54 Sail Plan weather Pilot Charts 05:17 Deep diving Dolphins 06:39 Night sailing and watch planning 07:13 Catching a Tuna! 08:05 Sushi and Cooking Tuna 08:51 Celebrating Landfall 09:36 Planning to Cross Caicos Banks 10:50 Shallow Water Piloting - Avoiding Shallow Coral Heads 12:57 What are the Banks? 13:59 Lunch stop at a Coral Head 15:08 Raising Anchor on the Caicos Banks 15:47 Shallow Banks to Providenciales 16:50 Provo Beaches and celebration 🏝️ Sail Away Weeks - Join the Crew! Get an introduction to the cruising lifestyle by joining Paul and Sheryl for a week or more of sailing adventure aboard their new Enksail Orion 49 on a leg of an upcoming voyage. Experience life on the water sailing to distant shores, build new skills, get onboard consulting in a beautiful location to help plan and budget for your own long-distance voyage in the future. Learn more here: https://distantshores.ca/sailaway-weeks/upcoming-passages/25-26-schedule/ 🎁 Gifts for Sailors! Own the Whole Distant Shores Collection: All 157 full half-hour episodes of the Distant Shores Sailing Adventure TV series are available as a collectors set as HD downloads (no longer available on DVD) through the Distant Shores website. This is perfect for binge-watching and makes a great gift for the sailor in your life! Info and order here: https://www.distantshores.ca/sailingdvds/catalog/ ⚓️ Join our Community! Distant Shores videos are made possible by the support of Distant Shores Patrons. Join our community for early ad-free viewing of videos, invitations to meetups and other special events as well as member-only livestreams, tutorials and Q&A's. We'd love to welcome you aboard! https://www.youtube.com/distantshorestv ⛵️ Our Boat: Enksail Orion 49 aluminum sailboat with variable-draft swing-keel https://distantshores.ca/about-us/the-boats/ ⛵️Yacht Manufacturer: Enksail Yachts / Gebroeders van Enkhuizen Yachtbuilding https://enksail.gebrvanenkhuizen.nl/en/ ♥️ Partners: Celestaire Sextants: https://www.celestaire.com/ Combi Electric Propulsion Systems: https://combi-outboards.com/en De Vries Sails: https://www.devriessails.nl/ ePropulsion: https://www.epropulsion.com/ Gill Marine: https://www.gillmarine.com/ GN Espace Ocean Chef: https://www.gn-espace.com/product/oceanchef-3-induction-cooker Highfield Boats: https://www.highfieldboats.com/ Lewmar: https://www.lewmar.com/ Ocean Safety: https://www.oceansafety.com/ Precision Sails: https://www.precisionsailloft.com/ PredictWind: https://www.predictwind.com/ Raymarine: https://www.raymarine.com/ Seldén Mast: https://www.seldenmast.com/ Scanstrut: https://www.scanstrut.com/ Super B Lithium Batteries: https://www.super-b.com/en You can also connect with us on: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/distantshorestv FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/distantshorestv SPONSORSHIP & BUSINESS INQUIRIES: info@distantshores.ca Thank you for watching! Sheryl and Paul