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Joy (View Post…)

as in “That is a big bucket!!” aka boat (Continued…)

Pretty amazing. (View Post…)

Slowly, the big sailboats that will be participating in the “Bucket Race” March 28-31 are arriving. Sensational among them is the 200+ ft Maltese Falcon built by Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins fame (legendary private equity firm in CA’s Silicon Valley…

We didn’t spend nearly enough time, but got a taste of the incredible biodiversity of the only US Department of Interior’s national park that is a rain forest. Per year, 200 inches of rain falls. We had lunch in the hip/Miami beach like section of S…

We finally went to the old city in San Juan, which is complete with an enormous fort (Castillo San Felipe del Morro, aka el Morro), whose first, smaller structure was started in 1540.  (Continued…)

Photo by Steve Sipe (Continued…)

Our marina has an old ship complete with skeleton bow sprint! (View Post…)

NAV: Left Ponce and had four hours of trade wind induced wave bashing until we could point NE and enjoy the relative ease of quartering seas. Lovely anchorage past Ricon bay, in Cayos del Barca, with 16 feet of water. Low lying mangroes cut the swel…

Ponce (Pon say’), where we are this week, is on the south coast of Puerto Rico (PR), and is the second largest city with 190,000 people (San Juan, the capital is the largest w 380,000). PR is a small (110L x 40W miles) mountainous (4,400 is highest pe…