Tag: Cuba

For those of you interested in such things, here is a plot of our trip across from Cuba to Key West.  The most interesting things here are the red arrows…

Last nights trip from Havana to Key West was fairly stressful given the fact that our mast was injured due to a broken shroud and was held up by a…

As some of you may know, my Dad and step mom are AVID travelers. They have been all over the world, including the Antartica and USSR before it was open…

Well, we made it through the check in process.First the doctor comes with rubber gloves (that scared me) and a facemask to make sure we were "ok". Then agriculture to…

The night went well and the wind dropped to make the trip much easier on the mast and jury rig repair. We are just a few miles outside Marina Hemingway…

It's 830pm and the rig is still up. Its been an interesting day. The forecast was for SE breeze around 10 knots, and we had that long enough to think…

We really lucked out here.1- The leeward shroud broke, not the windward one. We could have lost the mast.2 - The conditions were calm with flat seas and a full…

As we hardened up in 8-10 knots last night on stbd tack our 2nd intermediate shroud between the 1st and 2nd spreaders broke. It was on the "loose" side so…

Well, we are just off the Western corner of Cuba! Just outside the 12.5 mile limit and at 10pm I fear that we may sail by and never actually see…