Lots of News from Distant Shores in the Caribbean  
Hello Everyone,   Greetings from St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands where Paul and I have just arrived after crossing the Anegada Passage from St. Bart's after a great winter of cruising in the less-visited islands of the Caribbean – Saba, Montserrat, The Saintes, and St. Barthelemy (St. Bart's). We are now reprovisioning the boat for a month of cruising in the Bahamas, one of our favourite sailing destinations. We'll be there for a month visiting some of the out islands we missed on previous trips. Now with our shoal-draft Southerly 42 there aren't many places we can't go in the shallow seas surrounding the jewel-like islands of the Bahamas!    

Another New Boat! Our most exciting news it that Paul and I are getting another new boat! Yes, this is the official announcement. After sailing nearly 14,000 nm aboard our Southerly 42, Distant Shores, we are totally hooked on the Southerly yacht concept of variable draft freedom plus cruising comfort and performance. So when Southerly announced its latest model, the Custom 48, Paul flew to England to check it out. You can read his comments on the front page of the Distant Shores website and follow the progress on the new boat's construction ,which will begin in June, in Paul's New Boat Blog. http://www.distantshores.ca/boatblog/boatblog.html    

See Our New Southerly 48 at the London International Boat Show this January The new “Distant Shores”, a Southerly Custom 48, is scheduled for delivery in January 2010 and will be on display at the London International Boat Show at Excel in London, England. We'll be at the show to answer questions and will also be conducting seminars on long-distance cruising. We hope you'll drop by to say hello if you're planning to attend this wonderful boat show! We'll post the dates and times on the Seminars & Events page of our website when confirmed. The London Boat Show runs January 8-17, 2010. In the spring we'll begin a cruise of the Baltic for Season 7 of Distant Shores.
http://www.distantshores.ca/seminars/page20.html    

Southerly 42 for Sale So, if you are looking for a beautiful cruising boat that's fully equipped with the latest gear our Southerly 42 is now for sale. It is the first Southerly 42 to go on the used market. The waiting time for a new 42 is about one year so if you've been eyeing a 42 this may be the boat for you! For details check out the Northshore brokerage at www.northshore.co.uk. The contact there is Carl Phillips, Tel. +44 (0)1243-512611, E-mail:  carl.phillips@northshore.co.uk    

Newsletter In order to keep you as up-to-date as possible while we're out cruising and filming new episodes of the Distant Shores TV series, we're changing the style of our newsletters to shorter more regular blogs. Please check the website every week or two for these or sign up for the RSS feeds for the Newsletter and New Boat Blog to see anything new when it's uploaded. We will also continue to send out an announcement like this every month or so to all of you who've subscribed to our Newsletter to let you know what's new. Paul has been keeping up the New Boat Blog and will continue to do so with renewed fervour now that we're making lots of decisions about the Southerly 48! There have been 2 new entries - Visit to England and Mediterranean Mooring -å since the last announcement was sent out. There have been 3 new Newsletter entries - Antigua for Christmas, Saba, and Montserrat. If you haven't seen these please click on Newsletter or New Boat Blog on the Distant Shores website and enjoy! http://www.distantshores.ca/newsletter/news.html
http://www.distantshores.ca/boatblog/boatblog.html  

Distant Shores on DVD The Distant Shores TV series which is now in its sixth season airs in over 50 countries around the world to millions of viewers on Travel Channel, Wealth TV and Sailing Channel. If you don't receive any of these channels or have missed some of the 65 episodes in the first five seasons they are all available on  DVD through the secure store on the Distant Shores website. The Season 5 DVD, “The Med to the Caribbean and Bahamas” which features some of the world's top cruising destinations and follows the first of our shallow-draft experiences aboard the Southerly 42 has been a hot seller. Don't miss it! This DVD is also a great gift for the sailor in your family. If you want to have your order shipped to an address different from your credit card billing address just send us an e-mail through Contact Us and our office manager, Jill Schaffner who fills your orders, will send it there. http://www.searoom.com/shard/bvideo.html.

Southerly News We've just learned that Northshore Yachts has established a new dealer in Rock Hall, Maryland, in the USA. Welcome to Sharon and Jack Malatich, who are also dealers for Trintella Yachts. Anyone in the U.S. interested in purchasing a Southerly yacht should contact them. They can also provide information and handle the sale of our Southerly 42 to buyers on this side of “the pond”. You can reach Jack and Sharon at Southerly America, PO Box 501, Rock Hall MD 21661. Tel. (410) 639-2777 or Email: info@southerlyamerica.com
www.southerlyamerica.com    

Share the Sail We've had a great couple of winters conducting our Share the Sail weeks but with the transition to the new boat and our filming schedule we won't be running Share the Sail next year. Thanks to all that participated! It was great fun and we enjoyed having you aboard! We wish you well with your future plans for cruising and look forward to hearing about your adventures.   Wishing all of you a great summer and to our friends “down under” a great winter.  

Sheryl and Paul Shard
SV Distant Shores Charlotte Amalie, USVI
www.distantshores.ca