Florida Keys to Cuba - How lucky are we

Amazing, after weeks and weeks of pushing hard to get south so we were in a position to leave the states before 31^st Dec, the expiry date of our visa’s, a weather window opened up for us on the 30^th !!!

Leaving the Key - 7 miles bridge

The forecast was for light winds, but with 90 miles to cuba we could motor all the way if we had to. In effect the weather was kind to us yet again and we sailed in light winds and calm seas all the way.

We arrived at the 12 mile territorial waters of Cuba and radioed the coastguard to gain permission to continue, no response so we pressed on anyway, about 6 miles out we managed to raise the marina. Mark tried to gain information about water depths in the approach channel but the language barrier proved too difficult, so we entered the channel warily with one eye on the depth sounder. We had minimum 4metres all the way so thankfully it had been dredged since our out of date pilot book was published.

We entered the marina and were directed to the quarantine dock to await processing.