CHARTER LIFE
Nine boats, nine captains, nearly 70 people, and about a million problems. That’s the mayhem we faced as we prepped to leave on a group charter from Martinique bound for Grenada. As captains, our single assigned point of contact to help us ready our boats for departure was a Frenchman named Alain, and he was something else altogether.
Short, thin, leathery, and barefoot, he had the unenviable task of getting all of
