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Blue Water Sailing, Winter 2023

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{ BLUEWATER ADVENTURE }

Laughing Goat: Havana to Isla Mujeres

Part two: After a successful cruise from Florida to the Bahamas and Cuba, the Coles set sail from Havana to Mexico by Susan Cole WE LEFT HAVANA AND SAILED WEST through the Gulf of Mexico about 10 miles from the Cuban coastline, skirting the strong Yucatan Current flowing against us, northeast from the Western Caribbean toward the 12

Atlantic. This would be our longest passage, three hundred twenty-five miles. As night fell, the lights of Cuba glowed in the distance. Eight-foot waves and twenty-five-knot winds out of the north pushed us along. Blue Water Sailing


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