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Sorry guys, you will have to wait to hear about our adventures in Havana!  We are in Mexico, heading to Honduras tomorrow.  I will finish the Havana blog as well as our advenutures in Isla Mujeres and Cozumel on the way to Roatan.  Stay tuned…

We were getting anxious to see the big city, so after about a month of Cay hoping on the south coast, we decided to set our sights on Havana.  We still had about 350 miles ahead of us, so we wanted to get moving.  We opted not to go ashore on the Isla de la […]

Dinner! The next week or so was spent sailing around the Archipielago de los Canerreros.   The cruising here is second to none, with pristine reefs, picture perfect islands and water of incredible color.  We left Cayo Largo and sailed on the outside (rather than inside the reefs) to our first island stop, Cayo del Rosario.  […]

 Our plan was to go from Cienfuegos to Cayo Guano del Este and then to Cayo Largo.  This route takes you through the prohibited zone that is around the Bay of Pigs.  We cut a pretty good edge of the zone and didn’t have any problems as we never saw anyone patrolling this area so […]

We had an easy downwind run from Casilda to Cienfuegos.  As soon as we sailed into the entrance of the harbor, we were greeted with a huge painted wall that read “Bienvendios a Cuba Socialista”.  Even with my bad Spanish, I knew that it said “Welcome to Socialist Cuba”!  The anchorage is quite a ways […]

Four guys hanging out on a bench We had a great sail from Cayo Zaza de Fuera to Casdila.  We chose to go on the outside and then cut inside via the Canal de Drenton.  Aside from the occasional shoal or coral head, the cruising here has been great.  Most of the time, we have […]

Cooking dinner on the fire Over the next few days, we Cay hopped, as most were only a 15 – 25 mile sail.  We would leave in the morning to catch the breeze before it died and would try to anchor between noon and 2:00.  We would then jump in the skiff to check out […]

Old cargo ship on the beach We left Cabo Cruz at 6am thinking that we were going to sail 55 miles to Cayo Guincho.  We had 20-25 knots of wind right on our beam and had an awesome sail.  We were cruising at 7-7.5 knots with all sails up (remember, we are 37 tons so […]

We had about 35 miles to sail to our next anchorage and were anxious to get an early start.  We had told the Guarda that we wanted to leave by 8am, and he said he would come out at 7am to give us our necessary paperwork.  He got there around 7:30 and apologized a few […]

Beautiful Kids We had an uneventful motor sail from Santiago to Morea de Portillo.  We anchored in a very protected lagoon, with mangroves around part of us and a small town a short dingy ride away.  About 20 minutes after we got our anchor down, the Guarda came out to us in a small boat […]