Miscellaneous Info 

Some General information that you may find useful:


We leave our boat in dry storage for the hurricane season at Grenada Marine.

St David Harbor

Grenada Marine is located in St Davids Parish, Grenada
There is another boat yard in Grenada, Spice Island
Marine, but we’ve never left Gra’inne there.

Packed and ready to go

We now ship the majority or our items via Tropical Shippings LCL (Less than Container Load) service.  For ease of use and to obtain the cheapest shipping rates we use 70 gallon cardboard shipping containers that we get from Tropical.  Other containers are suitable as we see pallets of boxes of every size shape and description at the Miami LCL facility.

Spare Part/Shipping

Grenada and other Islands in the Caribbean allow cruisers to take advantage of duty free or nearly duty free entry of boat parts and supplies.  For several years we carried our parts and supplies back to Grenada as checked baggage.  This method generally required that we submit a material list to Grenada Marine about a month before flying back and they would complete the necessary paperwork and have it delivered to us at the Airport.  After arrival at the Airport we would pick up the form from our cab driver and use it to pay the 2.5% Customs fee on our spares for Yacht in Transit “Gra’inne”.   The yard staff can provide details on the Customs processes.

While we still use this method for last minute items that we cannot pre-ship, it is far better if possible to ship everything ahead.  

Heading for Miami “Tropical Sea Terminal”

Once we fill our shipping containers we drive to the
Miami LCL facility and process the shipment.  Tropical
also offers pickup/shipment from the US and Canadian
locations using a support trucking company.  This picture
shows our 2010 shipment of two 70 gallon barrels of
supplies and parts and one smaller container of 225ft of
chain.  Man, was the small barrel heavy!

Shipping via Tropical LCL requires that we fill out 3 forms (I have these as fillable .pdf files), contact Tropical to obtain a booking number, complete a detailed inventory, label each container, and deliver and pay for the shipment.  We allow approximately 1 month from the time of shipment to allow for transit time to Grenada (8 Days), processing through Customs once in Grenada, and then delivery of our shipment to our storage point.  We’ve been using Island Dreams Yacht Services for our shipments as they have a Customs Broker who will take care of the formalities, transport the shipment to us at LePhare Bleu Marina, and store for us pending arrival.  To facilitate the Customs process we provide Island Dreams with a detailed inventory and receipts for each item that we ship in .pdf format.

Tropical ships all over the Caribbean and to the Bahamas so a similar process would apply to these locations as well.