The clockwise roundtrip CUBA june/july 2001 started in Aruba. We blasted to Santiago de Cuba, made in the first two days under sail alone, 420 nautical miles, than the wind dropped to zero and Joris Francis Bacon, our only passenger on that trip, went for a swim.
Following
stops we made in Cuba:Santiago
de Cuba
Jardines de la Reina
Cienfuegos
Nueva Gerona (Isla de la Juventud)
Marina Hemmingway (Havana)
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Right
you see the international marina dock of Santiago de Cuba, which is a most
pleasant big city. Cuba is very safe and the hassle with the authorities
is informative.
Its not recommendable to break the rules of this country,
watch out for the fines!!
Spanish colonial architecture
Russian Lighthouses over 100 mtr high
Groupers, lobsters and turtles in Jardines de la Reina
Havana Club 7 anos, Cuban son and salsa in Havana.
CUBA: A unique place to be.
Pity they had NO wind at all and we motored all around Cuba till Haiti, where we started sailing again towards Aruba.
If somebody knows about Jens and GRETE, please let us know. We met him in Santiago and later again in Havana, from where we had left on the same day. Grete to Denmark and Monsoon to Aruba. We had a tough ride, but what about Grete??
VENEZUELA - autumn 2001
Venezuela
became again interesting so we deepened our contacts
with peninsula Paraguana, her people and her authorities.
Below Photo: Pan de Santa Ana: our one and only mountain, approx 850 mtr high
2002 - VENEZUELA
Christmas 2001: cruising around Isla Tortuga and Puerto La Cruz.(Venezuela). In march 2002 this cruise ends in CUMANA,(Venezuela, Edo. Sucre, in our favorite shipyard named Varadero Caribe, which is managed by the friendly PLAUT brothers.
We stayed all year on the hard and did immense important maintenance.
