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, it's here where the officials sit and wait all day for something to happen on your boat. As there are no other cubans allowed to visit your vessel, apart from the authorities, it's always very quiet.
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.
VENEZUELA - autumn 2001
Venezuela
became again interesting so we deepened our contacts
with peninsula Paraguana 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 immens important maintenance.
