One of the smartest moves, with future insights ability, was that small ports management from Turkey switch to the Caribbean. The market for a peaceful, safe, yachting, and cruise vacation these days, is the Caribbean.

The North is full of stress with their wars with each other, and within the Middle East nations, including Israel. The fallout of the wars in the Mediterranean is not conducive to stress-free leisure of the Wealthy, Famous, and Royals. Too close for full comfort.

Of the wealthiest homestead islands, Sardinia is an example to follow, and the original developers of Emerald Cove proposed a similar concept for Antigua. Small, medium sized and large marinas are spread around the coast Costa Smeralda.

Antigua’s many beaches and coves offer similar attributes, and its unique logistics midway in the chain of islands makes it a natural for marinas.

It offers Sailing North, pitted against the ‘greatest sailing’ (Yachting International),South from Antigua to Grenada,

Rumors abound about two newly planned marinas for the Northsound region, where dredging of a channel and land is being reclaimed. Originally it was a beach being built at Barnacle, which is now said to be for a yacht marina; however the area is far too shallow for mega yachts, and the channel is being built for cement and Natural Gas tankers.

Seems like a strange combination of marine activity.

If all these plans materialize and offer well-organized marine support, Antigua could get a big slice of the Bizjet and yacht traffic by marketing that area specifically to the ‘Rich & Famous’ offering swift, safe, private, border control, from jet to yacht.