Tripatini contributor Ed Wetschler writes:

¨On Anguilla, I learned something about that island's culture when an instructor offered to sail with me to St. Martin – across five or more miles of open water with big waves, and back. Mind you, this would have been on a boat whose length was barely 13 feet. ´I'd be scared,´ I admitted. ´But it's sailing!´ he exclaimed, as if that solved everything.

´We Anguillans love to sail,´ he added. ´If someone here doesn't love sailing, he is not a true Anguillan.´¨

Read more in his post Sailing Lessons at Caribbean Resorts - aka Meet the Locals.