Volgas, oxen, horse, bicycles, 1957 Chevrolets, 1954 Buicks, Edsels (with a Volga diesel engine), feet, tractors, Russian camels, trucks, Pontiacs, Ladas (they made a stretch limo version!), buses from Holland, Germany, Italy (all still with the ads in the native…

The fisherman fends his dinghy off Forbidden Planet with one hand and waves at our flag excitedly with the other. “Hola Canada! Me brother, he in Canada, he in Toronto,” says the fisherman holding onto our boat. “Toronto? We’re from…

Cuba is unlike any place on this planet. It’s hard to know where to start to explain, you can’t explain it. Eventually all of this information will be nicely categorized and labelled. In the meantime I have 3 1/2 months…

The Cuban Rules: If you don’t like the way something is done, wait an hour, it’ll change. Everything is forbidden, everything is possible. Any information you read is outdated. Nothing changes here, yet everything changes all the time and depending…

Here we sit in Marina Hemingway (in Havana) and we have a dilemna, we are out of cabbage. So it is market time! Within a 15 minute bike ride is the market of Santa Fe with a vary reasonable market,…

And the final tally is…..(drum roll)…..$150 per week. (real US dollars) This is for 2 people over a period of 14 weeks spent in Cuba and leaving with $1,000 of food and wine stashed on board. This makes Cuba a…

Sailorgirl refuses to make one. This is a site for cruising, sharing information and telling adventure tales, not for politics. The only comment I will make is that nothing is black and white and nothing is simple. The battle between…

the medical kit a Panic Bag communications provisions Medical Kit Sailorgirl is in perfect health and isn’t particulary obsessed with medical issues. We’ve read about various medical disasters on other boats but of course that couldn’t possibly happen to us….

Area: 110,860 sq km Population: 11 million Capital city: Havana (pop 2,200,000) People: 60% Spanish descent, 22% mulatto, 11% African descent, 1% Chinese Language: Spanish Religion: 47% Catholic, 4% Protestant, 2% Santería, many Catholics also practice Santería Government: Communist republic…

Never made it to the Dry Tortugas or Key West. Oh well. While we were hanging out in Marathon getting ready, we found a few other boats heading this way. So we set off in a convoy of 5 boats…

Can we spell HOT??? Not as in temperature, as in THE place to be. Everyone is talking about Cuba. While we were hanging out in Key West there were anywhere from 20 – 50 boats debating on going to Cuba….

So we were there, where was Fidel? We waited and waited but he never stopped by for a mojito. We spent 3 1/2 months sailing from Havana to Cienfuegos and back again. It was splendid. It would have been really…

“We may as well be painted green and have TV antennae sticking out of our heads”, says Colin. He’s right. The population of Los Arroyos, Cuba has come to a stop to watch us stroll down the main street. In…

The Pirate Guy wants a parrot. Rather, the Pirate Guy needs a parrot or so he states. What self-respecting pirate doesn’t have a parrot on their shoulder? All the other pirates have parrots, he needs one too. Just one small…