Month: January 2024
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Exploring Culebrita!
We ended up spending almost a week waiting for a weather window to leave the marina at Las Palmas on the east coast of Puerto Rico. We were excited to continue on and explore more places! Once the weather settled down, on January 20th, we set out for our favorite Puerto Rican island, Culebrita! The…
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Exploring Puerto Rico by Land
After spending a great time at home with family and friends for Christmas and New Year, I flew back to Puerto Rico to meet up with our daughter Gabryel. Douglas stayed another week in Nova Scotia to wrap up his work. The property around the marina is a well developed condo resort and golf course…
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Cruising Around Puerto Rico
We stayed at the marina in Puerto Real on the west coast of Puerto Rico for a few days getting caught up on boat projects that we needed to be on land for. One of those projects was re-doing the splice between our anchor chain and the rope part of our rode. I had been…
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Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico
Good weather winds are hard to get between DR and Puerto Rico, so we decided to do the trip in one go, 250 nautical miles. We heard from other people about how hard this trip is and how wild the Mona passage between the two countries can be for months. We were worried about it…
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Hurricane Season in Luperon Dominican Republic
We arrived in Luperon on May 11th, pretty exhausted from the passage from Turks. We had to deal with checking in at immigration which meant an immediate trip into town. The noise was disorientating after being up all night – motorcycles, music, chickens, dogs, and people speaking in Spanish. I had been using Duolingo to…
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Turks and Caicos – Part 2
Once we were back in Turks we had to get a bunch of boat projects done with the supplies we brought back, and we had to wait for a good weather window to cross to DR. We also did a lot of provisioning and a bit of kayaking, and visited a local brewery. Most evenings…
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Turks and Caicos – Part 1
After our late night anchoring on the west Turks bank, we went to Southside marina. We had a reservation there to leave the boat for a month while we went home. We had to time our arrival so that we entered the channel to the marina at high tide. Even at that we saw a…
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Georgetown to Turks and Caicos
We finally got a marginal weather window on March 24th, and jumped on it to begin easting to Turks and Caicos. We had a flight to catch from there so we really couldn’t keep waiting. The first day out was not fantastic with a lot of wind on the nose, but we were only heading…
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Georgetown, Bahamas
We came to Georgetown at the southern end of the Exumas after our short trip to Cat Island. Georgetown is one of the most popular destinations in the Bahamas. Many Americans and Canadians make this their port to spend the winter months in the Bahamas. We mostly motored but it was a pleasant day and…
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Cat Island
Our friends Michelle and Tony had Cat Island on their bucket list for a long time and invited us to check it out with them. Always up for an adventure we were happy to tag along. The only issue we had is that the forecast was calling for dead calm weather for multiple days, as…