Enjoy the Grenada Sailing Festival in the Lap of Luxury
This month, the annual Grenada Sailing Festival gave the public four days of yacht racing on some of the Caribbean’s best sailing grounds, combined with a convivial local atmosphere and a packed schedule of events.
Even the least seaworthy of land lubbers joined in the fun; the programme of races, regattas and live entertainment centred around Grand Anse Beach, just a short drive from the unique, Bond villain-esque environs of Mount Hartman Bay Estate.
Proceedings got underway with a welcome party on Grand Anse Beach on January 25, 2008, with fireworks, a fashion show, limbo dancing, fire eating and live music from a steel pan band and one of Grenada’s top DJs.
The next three days are packed with keelboat, traditional workboat and junior races, while the beach buzzes with spectators and non-stop events from swimming galas and kayak races. Each evening the party kicked off with a prize presentation, before the final Festival Award Ceremony farewell celebration on January 29.
Located on a private peninsula on the southernmost coast of Grenada, Mount Hartman Bay Estate is a 2.5-acre waterfront retreat within the chic resort area of Lance-aux-Epines. Comprising a Estate House and more casual Beach House – which can be hired together or separately, as both are self-contained and concealed from one another, with separate entrances to maintain privacy – the Estate is built into the hillside on a bay, with its own beach and views of Mount Hartman Bay Nature Reserve across the water.
With architecture best described as “Gollom meets Gaudi”, the Estate combines the antique with the modern, with quirky features such as an internal waterfall that cascades beside the staircase, and an intimate ‘love nest’ located in the folly that rises out of the swimming pool, featuring an all-glass bathroom and a glass staircase leading up to a romantic top floor bedroom boasting 360º views and a Juliet balcony from which a waterfall cascades into the pool below.
For further information visit www.mounthartmanbay.com
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