We got up and lifted anchor with the sunrise. We had 54 nautical miles to cover to reach Cienfuegos from Cayo Machos de Fuera and wanted to be anchored well before dark. This is where traveling around Cuba’s coastline from East to West really pays off. We had the brisk […]
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We are still making our way North West towards Cienfuegos. We had a lovely short day sail from Cayo Zaza de Fuera to Cayo Machos de Fuera. Our first sight of the Cay was very promising as she looked to have lots sandy beaches and mature palm trees. Getting into […]
We waved goodbye to all the fisherman settled in the ‘lovely and sheltered’ lagoon at Cayo Cuervo and headed off into seas stirred up by the gale force winds that passed the evening before. It was not like the winds had eased ‘that much’. We poled out the foresail alone […]
The Visitors Visa for one of my humans is running out. He has less than a week to renew it. The closest port you can do this at is Cienfuegos, on the mainland. So we need to make some ‘miles’ North and West. Unfortunately a storm front has moved in […]
Do you know where the term ‘cocktail’ came from? I have been told, by a very reliable Cuban source, that it originated in a bar in Mexico. A bartender mixed a variety of juices with alcohol and garnished his master piece with the feather from a cock’s tail. The drink […]
I got the humans up and going with the sun rise. I was a little sick of all these mangrove cays, OK, it was only two of them, but I dreamed of a run on a good sandy beach. Some squally weather followed by some stronger winds from the North […]