Note: belizesailing.bz is the continuation of discontinued bluegreenbelize.com (2012🪦2020)
A picture story behind belizesailing.bz
It has been15 years now that I’ve been sailing on the beautiful waters of Belize, since 2008, Belize the country I live since 2008.
After arriving in Belize by land, I came to Caye Caulker, where I met Jimmy Jones of the Raggamuffin sailing tour. I found his yellow boat, Ragga Gial, hauled out at the Split for a repaint job (the scenery back in 2008 was completely different from what it is now). Admiring the beautiful woodwork under the paint, I asked Jimmy: “Who built that, and where?”
“Built in Sarteneja,” he replied. “Built by shipwright Juan Guerrero.”
When I visited Sarteneja, I met the shipwrights, and the village soon became my home.
In 2009, I was able to buy an abandoned project—a beautiful little boat that had been left to rot on shipwright Cristobal Verde’s yard.
Finally in 2010 I could sail again on my new boat, my first Belizean boat and my second sailboat; Natty Dreads, (from Nat y Dreads)
For the last pictures of Natty Dread, after intensive maintenance and modification: Traditional 16 Belizean Smack
In 2010 we started a new project, boat design and construction with the Master Shipwright Juan Guerrero. A 37 footer, shallow draft, 12 feet beam, gaff rigged…
ZAYANN was originally designed as a cargo boat. It was the second wooden boat in the world built with Entropy’s bio-sourced epoxy Super Sap. (The really first was Natty Dreads, as a commercial trial).
In 2012 ZAYANN was launched and rapidly became one of the most recognizable belizean boat and overnight sailing trip boat in Belize.
Sailing on overnight trips with bluegreenbelize as open itineraries along the barrier reef around Tobacco cayes.
Pelican Cayes
Glover’s Atoll
In 2023 a season with Liberty Tours and (dutch students) a one night trip departing from Belize city to Caye Caulker, stay in Bannister or English Caye.
Learn the boat life, sailing a gaff rig along the barrier reef or master the ‘chase of the perfect ‘kitesurfing spot’. This is what we do on ZAYANN !
