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http://www.sailmagazine.com/cruising-grounds/isla-beata
You’ll recognize the boat. Extra photos at the bottom of the page.
Tor
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Absolutely awesome, dude!
Bob
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Silverheels wrote:
http://www.sailmagazine.com/cruising-grounds/isla-beata
You’ll recognize the boat. Extra photos at the bottom of the page.
Tor
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Tor:
Beautiful story of a beautiful place. I was especially impressed with the warm reception from the officials. That’s the part that would have worried me the most. I really want to do that trip so I have a hundred questions. We are planning the Exumas about February and that seems to be a reasonable launch to Hispaniola, though I don’t see that leg happening next year.
I was glad to see you “just did it!”,
Charlie
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It’s vaguely possible I might be in Isla Mujeres with Silverheels next
early-spring.Good luck in the race!
Tor
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Hi Charlie,
Two things to share on your plan. One, depending on time of year, it can
be a hard, even brutal, windward slog against the wind & current from
the Exumas to the eastern end of Hispañola, whichever side (Atlantic or
Caribbean) you chose. (I sailed directly offshore from St. Johns River
(Jacksonville, FL) to and thru the Mona Passage, making all my easting
above the trade winds.) And two, the south coast of Hispañola turned
out to be relatively uninteresting as a cruising ground. Seems like a
country better seen inland, from a jeep. I wouldn’t go out of my way to
sail there again. Isla Beata, DR and Ile a Vache, Haiti were the notable
exceptions.Tor
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