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Fajardo for a Bottom Job

Cheri Boat, Cheri's Posts, Cruising Life, Projects, Puerto Rico July 15, 2017July 13, 2017Boat, boat projects, Consort, Cruising, Fajardo, liveaboard, Product Review, Puerto Rico, Repairs Under Way, Sailing 0 Comment

January 2017 – We anchored just south of Fajardo in the small shelter of Isla Pineros. We spent a really rolly night waiting for our appointment with the travel lift at Puerto del Rey Marina. We were certainly ready to leave once it was time.

We headed out early to make the three short miles to the marina. There was “mucho viento” (lots of wind) and some pretty sporty waves, but we had an appointment to keep. Of course, as we turned the corner at the seawall of the marina, the waves went quiet. Alan still had a lot of wind to contend with, but he did an admirable job driving the boat into the travel lift. Once we were off the boat, we had a talk with the operator about our concerns with the travel lift, and together we decided we should be in the larger one. (Not sure why we were worried about the travel lift? Read about our dismasting here.) So, back on board, out of the lift and into the one next to it. Still blowing like crazy. Once again, no problem. Read more

Altagracia’s School – Giving Back

Cheri Cheri's Posts, Cruising Life, Dominican Republic, Giving Back, Projects, Travel January 14, 2017January 12, 2017Consort, Cruising, Dominican Republic, live aboard, liveaboard, Luperon, philosophy 0 Comment

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — Altagracia’s School and Home

We enjoyed our time in Luperon, and tried to repay some of the hospitality we enjoyed by doing some good while we were there.

With the crew of another boat (Tanda Malaika – who you may remember from our Crooked Island story), we found a teacher – Altagracia – running a small school from her home. We thought for sure she would know of some needs in the community, so we went to ask her. It turned out that she needed some help herself. Read more

Crooked Island

Cheri Bahamas, Cheri's Posts, Crooked Island, Cruising, Cruising Life, Giving Back, Living Aboard, Projects, Travel October 7, 2016October 7, 2016Bahamas, Boat, Consort, Crooked Island, Cruising, Fish, Giving Back, Hurricane Joaquin, Hurricane Matthew, Landrail Point, live aboard, liveaboard, sailboat, Sailing, Snorkeling 0 Comment

A quick note first – hurricane Matthew just blew past Crooked Island. Our thoughts are with the people there, and in the rest of the Bahamas. With all our hearts, we hope no harm came to them.

We left Rum Cay determined to sail – not motor – to our next destination. We couldn’t be sure, until we got away from the island, exactly what the wind would be doing. To accommodate the uncertainty, we set a number of potential destinations in our chart plotter, and decided we’d make the eastern-most one that the wind would allow. Clarencetown, Long Island if the wind was south of east, Crooked Island, Plana Cays, or Mayaguana if we had a little more luck and the wind was pure east or north of east.

It turned out that we could not have been luckier if we had tried, because we ended up at Crooked Island, which we would have otherwise passed by, and it was just amazing. Not just the island itself, which would have been enough, but the beautiful people we met there, both on land and on another boat.