1 May Day/Labour Day.Public holiday in many places
1 Marine Reserve Festival,St.Barts.www.st-barths.com
1 West Marine Atlantic Cup sets sail from Tortola,BVI to Bermuda.steve@carib1500.com
2 Labour Day 2005 holiday observed in SVG
2 Bank Holiday.Public holiday in Dominica,St.Kitts &Nevis
5 Ascension Day.Public holiday in Netherlands Antilles,Guadeloupe
5 ARC Europe sets sail from Antigua to Portugal.www.worldcruising.com
6 -8 Anguilla Regatta.www.anguillaregatta2005.com
7 60s Atlantic Challenge sets sail from Antigua to UK.www.worldcruising.com
8 WWII Victory Day.Public holiday in French West Indies
8 -13 Angostura Tobago Sail Week.www.sailweek.com
12 -16 Canouan Regatta.(784)458-8197
16 Whit Monday.Public holiday in many places
20 Independence Day.Public holiday in Cuba
22 Emancipation Day.Public holiday in Martinique
22 -29 3rd King of the Caribbean Freestyle Windsurfing Competition,Bonaire.www.infobonaire.com
23 FULL MOON
23 Memorial Day.Public holiday in Puerto Rico and USVI
23 -28 55th Annual Ernest Hemingway Fishing Tournament,Havana,Cuba. 25 -29 Around Guadeloupe Race.YCM
26 Corpus Christi.Public holiday in Grenada and St.Lucia
26 -29 Mount Gay Regatta,Barbados.
27 31st Foxy ’s Wooden Boat Regatta,Jost Van Dyke.WEYC
27 18th Curaçao Jazz Festival.(011)5999-463-3226
27 -29 BVI Music Festival.www.bvimusicfest.com
27 Anguilla Day.Public holiday in Anguilla
28 -29 Coors Light Sundance Regatta,Puerto Rico.CNPR
30 Indian Arrival Day.Public holiday in Trinidad

JUNE

11 Sovereign ’s Birthday.Public holiday in BVI
11 -12 Le Genois Regatta,Les Saintes,Guadeloupe.YCM
12 Queen ’s Birthday.Public holiday in St.Kitts &Nevis
14 Queen ’s Birthday Celebration.Public holiday in Antigua &Barbuda
18 -19 Caribbean One Design Keelboat Championship,St.Maarten
19 Labour Day.Public holiday in Trinidad
22 FULL MOON
24 Battle of Carabobo Day.Public holiday in Venezuela
24 -3 July Optimist North American Championship,Tobago.www.optinam2005.com
24 -3 July HIHO Caribbean Passage,Antigua to BVI.www.go-hiho.com/sailing/caribbeanpassage/
24 -5 July Vincy Mas (St.Vincent Carnival).(784)457-1502
25 St.Jean Regatta,Martinique.YCM
26 St.John Baptist Regatta,Puerto Rico.CNPR
29 Fisherman ’s Birthday..Boat and dinghy races in many fishing communities
TBA Morgan ’s Run 2005,rally from Cartagena,Colombia to Old rovidence and San Andres.