Archive for April, 2008
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Jamaican ode to Roti
We’re still here in Jamaica. The winds are too light for us to make a move further south. Never happy are we? The wind is either too strong or not strong enough. Hopefully, we’ll get some rebuilding in the trades this week. In the meantime, a song about Jamaican roti. http://youtube.com/watch?v=drkxfS5Mm_o
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Position Reports
I changed the URL for our position reports to winlink.org. It works so much better and now you can see the path that we took through the Bahamas, Cuba and Jamaica. position report We like Jamaica so much that it’s hard to leave here. The people are super friendly; the music is great and the [...]
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Journey to Jamaica
Chris Parker, the weather guy, called for light and variable winds for the week that we wanted to travel to Jamaica. We’re fine with light and variable. Besides, since we were traveling near the coast line, we thought we might benefit from the katabatic effect of wind coming off of land at night giving us [...]
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Our Cuban Landing
We were lucky we decided to come to Puerto de Vita to clear in, since Santiago de Cuba was not operational. I asked the harbour master about it and he turned away from me saying, “ It’s closed” Nothing more. We met a German couple who had sailed all the way from St. Kitts to [...]
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Jamaica
I know it’s been awhile. We haven’t had internet access for a really long time. We still need to test out posting to this blog from the SSB. Now that we have internet again, we’ll be able to test this out. We spent three nights and four days at sea sailing from the north coast [...]