Thornton Family Rescues 2 Dogs While On Vacation, Now Has 17 Puppies: ‘It’s Totally Worth It’ – CBS Denver
THORNTON, Colo. (CBS4) –Braeden Boltz absolutely love puppies. What 8 year old doesn’t?
“They look like furry fluff balls,” he said.
A Thornton family welcomed 17 puppies after bringing two dogs home from the Caribbean. (credit: CBS)
Braeden and his 6-year-old sister, Tenley, have plenty “furry fluff balls” to love on after their recent vacation turned their family of four into a family of 25.
“I cried happy tears,” Braeden told CBS4’s Kelly Werthmann.
A Thornton family welcomed 17 puppies after bringing two dogs home from the Caribbean. (credit: CBS)
In early August, the Boltz family went to the Caribbean to celebrate Braeden’s mom’s 40th birthday. While there, they discovered a couple homeless dogs.
“We pulled off at a scenic viewing point and then out came these two dogs from the bushes,” Jennifer Boltz explained. “At first we were super nervous, we didn’t want them to bite the kids or anything, but they just laid down and wanted their bellies rubbed.”
A Thornton family welcomed 17 puppies after bringing two dogs home from the Caribbean. (credit: Boltz family)
Almost every day on their trip in St. Maarten, Jennifer said her family made sure to visit the two dogs.
“There was just this instant pull at my heart,” she said.
A Thornton family welcomed 17 puppies after bringing two dogs home from the Caribbean.
That pull grew even stronger when the family returned home to Thornton. The Boltz family was in love with the animals thousands of miles away, so they made special plans to get the dogs to Colorado.
“All the stars had to align and everything worked out perfectly,” Jennifer said.
Jennifer’s husband, Kevin, made a quick trip back to the island to rescue “Coconut” and “Maisie.” Within a couple days, the two young dogs were gaining weight from a healthy diet and loving home. At least that’s what the Boltz’s thought.
A Thornton family welcomed 17 puppies after bringing two dogs home from the Caribbean. (credit: CBS)
“And it was just like, ‘Oh! This dog is pregnant!’” Jennifer said.
Just a few weeks after arriving to her new home, Coconut surprised the family with a litter of 10.
But wait, there’s more!
Six days later, sweet Maisie delivered seven puppies of her own.
A Thornton family welcomed 17 puppies after bringing two dogs home from the Caribbean.
“We had no idea they were pregnant. Zero idea,” Jennifer said. “They were skin and bones (when we found them).”
Combined with the two dogs the Boltz family already owned, there are now 21 dogs living in their home. The family more than quadrupled practically overnight!
A Thornton family welcomed 17 puppies after bringing two dogs home from the Caribbean. (credit: CBS)
“It’s very overwhelming, but the support that we’ve gotten from our community, family and friends has been outstanding,” Kevin Boltz explained. “It’s totally worth it.”
Jennifer and Kevin said they’ve received numerous calls and social media messages from people asking to adopt the puppies once their weened and ready. But the family could use some help covering the unexpected costs of taking care of the surprise litters. A friend set up aGoFundMe fundraiserto support the Boltz family, with all money raised going toward covering the costs of vet bills, blankets, and food.
An aggressive coral disease that can destroy certain species in days has been spotted off the coast of the United States Virgin Islands after spreading down from Florida, and scientists believe it will soon reach this territory’s waters — if it’s not here already.
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease shows up as lesions that can spread a couple of centimeters each day, according to Dr. Shannon Gore, director of the Association of Reef Keepers.
“Within a month, you’ll have the entire coral head gone,” she said.
The coral head pictured here shows signs of possible infection, which ARK will examine further in the coming days. (Photo: ARK)
Since it was first identified off the coast of Florida in 2014, SCTLD has affected more than 96,000 acres of reef, the Smithsonian Magazine reported.
The disease has spread 250 miles down that coastline, moving at about five kilometers per month, according to a preliminary report by William Precht, director of Marine and Coastal Programs for Dial Cordy and Associates Inc., an environmental and ecological management service with offices in Florida.
In the report, Mr. Precht described “the onset of one of the most contagious and deadly coral diseases ever recorded.”
In the USVI
Early this year SCTLD was spotted off the coast of the USVI, and it’s been sighted off St. Maarten, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Jamaica, Dr. Gore said.
The disease is transmittable through water and it can decimate reefs within weeks. Of the 45 species of reef-building corals that occur on the reef tract in Florida, the disease has hit 22 of them.
Coral Ecologist Marilyn Brandt from the University of the VI in St. Thomas recently told Science News that SCTLD is “annihilating whole species.”
“It’s not something we should sit around and wait for it to happen, because it’s something that we can do something about,” Dr. Gore said.
A map created by the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment shows areas where Stony Coral Tissue Loss Dis- ease has been spotted (in red), where it is likely to be but remains unconfirmed (in yellow), and where it hasn’t been spotted in spite of search efforts (in green). (Photo: PROVIDED)
Scientists and researchers are studying ways to combat the disease. Applying antibiotics on coral has proved effective, and another preventive method involves moving healthy colonies to tanks where they are protected from the outbreak.
But these are only short term solutions and scientists are looking into longer term treatments as well. At least one probiotic has been identified which may increase disease resistance on corals, according to Smithsonian.
Efforts to learn whether or not the disease has hit the VI are in progress. Having secured two grants for the mission, Dr. Gore organised five dives on Tuesday dedicated to spotting the disease. Team members photographed lesions on some corals and will revisit the same corals next week to see if the lesions have spread.
“If so, this will confirm SCTLD has spread to the BVI,” Dr. Gore said.
Additionally, she has created posters to help divers identify SCTLD and inform them on what to do if it’s spotted. Some of the most susceptible species include flower and cup corals, brain corals, pillar corals, and boulder corals.
Dr. Gore’s flyer urges people to be on the lookout for large areas of bright white colouration and to report any sightings to info@bviark.org or to call or text 546-0164.
SCTLD spread quickly along the coast of Florida in the five years after it was discovered in 2014. Illustrations from the National Marine Sanctuaries branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show the extent of the disease in red in 2014 (above) and in 2019 (below). (Photo: PROVIDED)
Other diseases
This isn’t the first time a coral disease has spread in the region. There are up to 30 known diseases that affect Caribbean coral, according to Dr. Graham Forrester, an aquatic ecology professor at the University of Rhode Island who has studied reefs in the VI since 1992.
The new disease has already killed a lot of corals in the Caribbean Sea. The most effective way to fight back, he said, is to improve the environment for the reefs.
Biologist Dr. Lianna Jarecki — who often works alongside Dr. Forrester in the VI — agrees with this view.
“If you’re healthy and eating good food, you don’t get sick as often. What happens is the coral reefs are becoming more sensitive to the existing pathogens in the environment because they’re stressed from warmer sea temperatures, from sewage pollution, from anchors turning them upside down all the time,” Dr. Jarecki explained. “There are so many things that if the environment is healthy, then the corals are able to resist on their own.”
She stressed the importance of the reef monitoring work that she and Dr. Forrester do because it provides a detailed picture of what’s happening under the sea.
“We don’t see it every day, but we know we depend on it,” she said. “It’s important to know what’s happening so we can react.”
‘Much more alive’
Drs. Forrester and Jarecki have been conducting research in the territory since 1992, including an ongoing effort to track the reefs around Guana Island.
“At the time they were much more alive and beautiful than now,” Dr. Jarecki said of their earlier work. “I think at this point we have the longest-running reef monitoring for the BVI and one of the longest in the Caribbean.”
Their work around Guana has been used as part of a regional analysis designed to help understand the state of Caribbean coral reefs, including how they’re changing and why. The data they gathered was part of a Caribbean-wide summary published in 2013.
Recently, scientists throughout the world have decided to contribute monitoring data that they’ve collected between 2013 and 2019 as part of a global study set for publication next year. Data on the Pacific Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef will be in the study, as will the work Drs. Forrester and Jarecki are doing.
“The goal is to publish in a peer-review scientific journal, which is then available to the global scientific community and beyond,” Dr. Forrester said.
The scientists have also studied threats to coral that aren’t directly related to global warming or disease. In 2015, Dr. Forrester published a study that focused on the impact of anchoring on coral reefs and stated that anchoring “has a surprisingly big effect on coral reefs in the BVI.”
In fact, the study suggests that marine areas where lots of vessels anchor have an average of 40 percent less coral cover and 55 percent fewer fish than sites with low amounts of anchoring activity. The study was likely the first large-scale study in the world to quantify the amount of damage done by anchoring, according to Dr. Forrester.
Though climate change is one of the main reasons the Caribbean is seeing a loss of corals at an alarming rate, Drs. Forrester and Jarecki are focused on the issue of anchoring be- cause it’s something that they believe can be largely solved in the VI with the cooperation of charter boat companies.
Most of the damage done to coral reefs by anchoring happens because the chain attach- ing a boat to its anchor will move across the ocean floor, side to side, and overturn large coral. One such coral that the team found recently was about six feet tall and as wide as a human — too heavy for a scuba diver to push back upright.
“One of our sites, which was really beautiful, is completely dead now from chronic anchoring,” Dr. Jarecki said. “Usually we think of moorings as a solution so people don’t have to use anchors, and that works, but there still has to be a way of preventing anchoring.”
By monitoring satellite images of different sites and keeping track of boats that are anchored versus boats that use moorings, Dr. Forrester has found that most people prefer to use moorings. In fact, he found that at sites where moorings were installed, the number of boats quadrupled and the number of boats that anchored was cut in half.
“There’s a minority of people who will just choose to anchor or go somewhere else where they anchor,” he said. “If you can figure out why they make those decisions it will be helpful to see how to reduce the anchoring rate. The BVI can do a better job of managing its yachting industry.”
But, the scientists said, they do not advocate the government for policy reforms: They are primarily here to do research, collect data, and educate the public.
Drs. Forrester and Jarecki both have taught classes at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College and held training sessions focused on marine studies, and they continue to foster interested students and encourage them to become scientists and researchers.
United Workers Party (UWP) Candidate for the Castle Bruce Constituency, Ernie Jno. Finn has condemned what she described as a malicious act by a Dominica Labour Party (DLP) supporter who she says, deliberately edited a statement which she made during a UWP town hall meeting in St. Maarten on Saturday, in order to distort its meaning.
“I need to condemn a malicious act that was done sometime last night or this morning,” she remarked while addressing Dominicans at a similar meeting in Antigua on Sunday night. “A Labour Party supporter back home or somewhere, I don’t know, edited, cut off the beginning of my statement and only used my voice saying, I do not want people to know that I am from Dominica.”
A check by Dominica News Online (DNO) of the original recording of the statement made in St Maarten revealed Jin. Finn as saying, “It is time that we join forces because we need to save our country. We need to rekindle that pride in Dominica because I know there are some people who say, ‘I don’t even want people to know I’m from Dominica.’ But with Team Dominica, when we get into office, under the leadership of the Honourable Lennox Linton, pride will come back to Dominica and you will be proud to be called nature islanders.”
Jno Finn added, “You will be proud again to be called Dominicans.”
She said this “act of desperation” is not going to stop her. “They are trying to bring Team Dominica and Ernie Lawrence-Jno Finn down; they will not succeed. No matter how hard they try, my crown will firmly [remain] on my head.”
Meanwhile Jno. Finn appealed to Dominicans in Antigua to help bring real change is coming to Dominica.
“We need your help,” she stressed. “My people I know you are in Antigua but your hearts are in Dominica, because you want to come back home, but the way things are at home, the way the economy is that does not make it possible for you to come home.”
However, the former educator gave the assurance that the UWP, under the leadership of Lennox Linton, will make things better, “so you can come back home.”
In connection with the passing of our former colleague and friend, the management of the Police Force (KPSM) on Monday September 23rd 2019, has placed a table with a picture and condolence book of the late E.E.F Wiel in the lobby of the Police Headquarters in Philipsburg.
This book is at the disposal of the general public. The public is hereby invited to come in and sign this book as an expression of their condolence during this week.
ADMIN NOTE: I Will transcribe and translate audio today.
THE HAGUE – CDA and VVD are urging to intervene in the St Maarten administration.The two government parties are “seriously concerned” about the reconstruction now that the government has fallen there again.
The CDA and the VVD are frustrating that the reconstruction is being delayed due to political impasse on the island.“Millions are ready, but apparently they are unable to give substance to their collective interests on St Maarten.”
“I am very sorry to see how people are in danger of drowning and that I am not doing anything,” says Van Dam.“I think that as a Dutch parliamentarian – certainly in the direction of the Council of Ministers – I must take my responsibility.”
Parliamentaryquestions about possibilities to interveneThe CDA and the VVD want to know from State Secretary Raymond Knops (Kingdom Relations) about the possibilities for administrative intervention from The Hague.
“I am very concerned about the reconstruction,” says VVD MP André Bosman.According to Bosman, it is in any case time for the Reich Council to “put the pressure on.”
“I sometimes feel that I am more concerned about the people of St. Martin than the drivers of St. Martin.”
Marlin-Romeo speech impresses The Hague
The now outgoing Prime Minister Leona Marlin Romeo gave a speech on television on Monday, in which she called out for new elections after several members of parliament had taken their seat.
Marlin-Romeo made various allegations against MPs.Among other things, the cabinet would work ‘in a culture of fear’ and the parliament urged the government to break the constitution.According to her, there are “influential people” outside of parliament who are actually in charge.
CDA MP Chris van Dam says he is ‘deeply shocked’ aboutMarlin-Romeo’s speech.“If a prime minister lists all of this, and in a way confirms the suspicions and rumors, I can’t keep my ears shut.”
Concerns about elections
On 25 November, Sint-Maarten willagain go to the polls.“I am worried about the elections,” says Van Dam (CDA).“Because who is currently able to do the right thing on St Maarten?With nine cabinets in ten years, I am pretty sad about that. ”
Intervening just like on St. Eustatius?
The CDA flirts openly with administrative takeover, similar to how it went with Sint-Eustatius.The local government was dismissed by The Hague in February 2018, after a committee came to the conclusion that the special municipality ignored the law.
“I think it helped Statia enormously in advancing further as a country,” says Van Dam (CDA).“I do not know what is possible in the Kingdom compared to a separate country, but I do think the time has come to investigate.”
Intervention such as has happened on St. Eustatius ‘can be an option’, says VVD MP André Bosman, who has submitted the parliamentary questions together with the CDA.“I don’t exclude anything.”
PHILIPSBURG–United Democrats (UD) Member of Parliament (MP) Sarah Wescot-Williams is seeking answers to a number of questions from the newly-formed coalition majority.
Wescot-Williams said on Monday that she is also awaiting the governing accord of the recently formed coalition. “Will we get the true answers to this government’s formation from that accord or must we go by statements made by the individual MPs, who now make up the coalition?” she asked.
Wescot-Williams asked whether matters that members of the new coalition have hammered consistently and “threatened” the Leona Romeo-Marlin cabinet with, would be pulled back. She asked whether the Trust Fund agreement would be turned back; whether Dutch liquidity budget support would no longer be accepted and whether the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) recommendations would be retracted. She also asked whether the hospital project would be halted; whether the Dutch government and the European Investment Bank (EIB) loans from the Airport project would be refused and whether a waste-processing contract would be given without any bidding process to Envirogreen, as suggested by a Member of Parliament, for the garbage dump.
She also asked whether general health insurance would be shelved and whether the Integrity Chamber would be supported.
“Will the William Marlin proposal to punish ‘ship jumpers’ be enacted? Will the management of our seaport be outsourced to Global Ports and if so, under what conditions?” she asked.
In the meantime, Wescot-Williams said she is on record stating that a shift in Parliament’s majority should not automatically be counteracted with dissolution of Parliament and calling elections.
“I have maintained this stance much to the chagrin of other politicians in the past, depending on which side of the fence they found themselves. I look at the most recent change in Parliament and the arguments those now supporting a new coalition are using and I wonder, looking at the immediate political future of the country: there will be a new coalition, with the usual instructions to the sitting government. What will these instructions be?”
She continued: “The Jacobs coalition wants a formateur to propose new ministers and look for common ground between the MPs forming the new coalition. So, we will have a caretaker government, ordered to do or not to do by the new coalition; a screening process for ministers, in the most optimistic case, taking 4-5 weeks and a new Parliament to sit within three months of its dissolution. In the meantime, not one step forward can or will be made in the general interest, at a time when so much is at stake.”
The Sint Maarten Christian Party (SMCP), represented by the party leader and Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Wycliffe Smith and Member of Parliament Claude Chacho Peterson issued a joint statement on the recent collapse of the Governing UD-SMCP coalition on Monday.
In their statement, they made it clear that another snap election would not have been their choice. “The SMCP would have preferred to avoid going to the polls. However, given the reasons mentioned in the rest of this article, the SMCP is of the opinion that invoking article 59 is the only right thing to do at this time.”
SMCP gained one seat in the 2018 elections and was prepared to sit in the opposition in Parliament with Smith as the elected representative. However, when the United Democrats (UD) invited SMCP to help form the majority coalition, the party consented with some prerequisites. SMCP ensured that the Governing Accord signed on April 5, 2018 stipulated that the incoming government would govern based on principles of “stability, transparency, openness and integrity”. High on the priority list of the Government were, among other things, the physical and economic recovery of Sint Maarten, the improvement of Kingdom relations, and tax reform. The question raised at that time was, how can the Christian party join a coalition whose leader was rumoured to be involved in illegal dealings. The SMCP found that, at that time, the leader of the UD was never arrested for such suspicions.
Knowing how sluggish government’s bureaucracy functions, one cannot expect miracles from a Government in its first year of office. With only one year and three months of being in office since June 26, 2018, the UD-SMCP coalition government was able to achieve several goals, despite the country’s setbacks post Irma. The UD-SMCP government was still able to get the integrity chamber off the ground, set up the National Recovery Bureau, obtain Trust Fund and European Investment Bank funding for the recovery of the airport, secure funding for the new hospital, for GEBE and liquidity support to ensure salaries of civil servants and members of parliament are paid on time.
Due to the complicated and cumbersome procurement procedures of the World Bank, Trust Fund monies were slow in being released. However, many of the projects that were in the pipeline, are on the verge of being rolled out such as “World Bank approves PJIA Terminal Reconstruction Plan”, which was Monday’s headline in The Daily Herald. According to Smith, “From first-hand experience, I can attest to the fact that within the Council of Ministers of the Romeo-Marlin II administration, the principles of integrity, honesty and transparency were always held high and decision making was always measured based on these principles.”
On the other hand, the functioning of the Parliamentary Coalition did not always flow. MP Claude Peterson previously compared SMCP’s relation with UD/SMCP coalition to a marriage. Peterson mention that “in a marriage sincere partners give and take. They do not air their dirty laundry but try to work things out for the sake of unity, stability and progress. In this light, SMCP was a true partner and all UD members have voiced this on several occasions. Most recently, this was publicly stated on several occasions by now independent Member of Parliament, Franklin Meyers.” There is no doubt that SMCP’s Member of Parliament, Claude Peterson did go out of his way to try to maintain unity and stability within the Coalition. However, when self-interest among individual members took precedence over coalition interest and, more so, over country, then it became practically impossible to sustain the coalition.
The SMCP was actually in the process of calling the coalition together for to re-evaluate the coalition accord as well as the coalition management agreement that had been signed by all members. However, MP Franklin Meyers’ decision to leave the coalition and declare himself an independent member of parliament expedited the collapse of the UD-SMCP Coalition. Smith and Peterson noted however that, as an independent member of Parliament, MP Meyers expressed his willingness to support the Coalition. Having worked well with MP Meyers in the Coalition, SMCP had no problem with this move and consequently had even submitted a draft for a new governing accord for the new UD-SMCP- Meyers Coalition. Unfortunately, with the defection of two other UD members of parliament, the prospect of a UD-SMCP-Meyers Coalition fell through.
MP Chanel Brownbill and MP Luc Mercelina have since jumped ship, withdrawing from the UD faction, and have gone on to support the opposition parties in forming a new coalition of 9 members of Parliament. Consequently, this means that a new government will be formed. “Why not let this whole political saga end here?, you may ask. Why would the current government still pursue invoking article 59 of the Constitution?” Smith repeated a statement previously published on December 7, 2017 in explaining the SMCP’s position. Smith stated, “SMCP is of the opinion that this article [59] has its place in our constitutional system of checks and balances. Article 59 was included in the constitution in case parliament failed to execute its duties. For example, if Parliament does not call meetings, does not review and pass laws submitted by the government and as a result the functioning of government is grossly stagnated or impeded, then government is given the right, according to article 59, to dissolve parliament on behalf of the people and call for new elections. However, we, the people, do not expect government to abuse this right and use article 59 as an instrument for retaliation. Rather, it should be used as a last resort to ensure that the people get a proper functioning parliament”.
SMCP supports the government in its attempt to give the people the opportunity to appoint a proper government by electing representatives to Parliament who are not about grandstanding, self-interest and greed but who are able to put country above self and who are objective in their assessment of Government. According to the then-opposition, the government has done nothing right and that it is the worst government ever in the history of St. Maarten. Since only the government will change and not the parliamentarians there is absolutely no guarantee that the interference, the sabotage, the undermining and the outside manipulation by Parliament will cease to exist.
In Smith and Peterson’s views, “The possibility of the influence by the so-called Cupercoy Government is also very real. The tactics used by members of parliament to delay the decision making on certain laws, crucial to the recovery and development of the country will continue with the same people in parliament. For example, the delay in passing the CFATF regulations can cause Sint Maarten to be blacklisted in the financial world. The delay in passing the general pension ordinance will continue to cost Sint Maarten Naf 600.000 per month. The delay in passing the tax reform laws means that St. Maarten is not able to revamp its outdated tax laws with the result that a lot of companies and persons slip through the tax cracks and do not pay taxes. Believe it or not, Sint Maarten, at this time, is rather dependent on the Dutch financing through the Trust Fund and liquidity support. In Parliament, the NA, the USP and independent member of Parliament, Luc Mercelina have been very opposed to what they term Dutch interference, Dutch control and Dutch support.”
SMCP is of the opinion that the sabotage, the undermining, the outside interference and manipulation, the delay tactics as well the anti-Dutch sentiment displayed on the floor of Parliament is reason enough for the Government to give the electorate of Sint Maarten the opportunity to decide on the way forward as far as their representatives in parliament are concerned and by extension what type of government they would prefer to have. Smith has submitted his letter of resignation to the Governor of Sint Maarten and MP Peterson has relinquished his post as Vice Chair of Parliament.
Smith concluded, “As leader of the SMCP, this party remains committed to serving the people of Sint Maarten for a change. I am confident that when persons unite to serve country above self, Sint Maarten will progress.”
Organizers of the 40th St Maarten Heineken Regatta are proud to announce that it is now accepting entries for its annual Regatta and are inviting all participants to register for the event taking place March 5-8, 2020.
After publishing the Notice of Race it soon became clear how keen sailors were to register their teams as over 4 teams already entered in the first 24 hours!
Sailing Holland, entered by Gideon Messink – Campaign Director Sailing Holland, is a Volvo 65 winning third place in the 2017 – 2018 Volvo Ocean Race as Team Brunel, and will be most certainly a team to watch. Team Extra Djinn, a Varianta 44 entered by Michel Dorsman, entered early after an active sailing season in Holland, where they secured a first place in its class during the North Sea Regatta.
Organizers are pleased to welcome back Touch2Play with Rob Butler and his crew for their 3rd St. Maarten Heineken Regatta. During the 2019 edition they won first place in CSA 3 and although fast, they are also hard to miss on the racecourse flying a bright pink Spinnaker. Finally, organizers welcome La Novia, a 48ft Catamaran from the Dominican Republic entered by Georges Coutu.
“There is great news for Multihull participants this year”, announces Michele Korteweg, Regatta Director. Multihulls that register to race in both the Caribbean Multihull Challenge II (14 – 16 February 2020) and in the 40th St. Maarten Heineken Regatta will have the opportunity to compete for a Grand Combination Prize of an Oris Swiss Watch worth in excess of US$2,000. “The St. Maarten Heineken Regatta was always known to have the largest multihull class in the Caribbean, therefore we were thrilled when the Sint Maarten Yacht Club announced a separate event for Cats last year. Having these events only separated by weeks, it is the perfect opportunity for Multihull participants to compete in both challenging Regattas.” Continues Korteweg.
Port de Plaisance Marina has again extended free dockage for the first 30 fully paid entries of the st Maarten Heineken Regatta, allowing competitors to be right at the heart of the Regatta Village. The Regatta Village will again be located at Port de Plaisance Resort, Marina, Country Club & Casino and with its upcoming 40th Anniversary the entertainment will be Legendary!
“We invite all music lovers and festival fans to make your way down to the blue waters and the white sandy beaches of St. Maarten this March for a week filled with exciting live music performed by incredibly talented local, regional and international artists. You are invited to party with us!” Says John Leone, Onshore Production Director.
All racing will take place in the waters surrounding the dual-nation island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, offering a variety of courses suitable for all classes: Maxi’s, Ocean Racers, Multihulls, Bareboats, Cruisers, and everything in between, this Event is ‘Serious Fun’ for everyone.
Online registration is quick, easy to use, and can be accessed via the regatta websiteheinekenregatta.comwhere you will also find the Notice of Race for 2020. Sign up now! The island of St. Maarten and the organizers of the St Maarten Heineken Regatta look forward to welcome you to celebrate his 40th anniversary with some “Serious Fun”!
