Catamaran delivery from Puerto Rico to Charleston - Puerto Rico

It all started with a phone call from Sally on a cold and gray April day...would we like to deliver a boat from Puerto Rico to the US??????????? A large catamaran similar to the one they owned back in 2008...It sounded great fun and so the adventure begun.

We departed from Syracuse, NY (thank you so much Lindsay and Karen for having brought us there) and landed on May 4th in San Juan Puerto Rico. Oh the wonderful feeling of arriving in the Caribbean, the warmth, the gentle breeze and the drink on the deck. N o t h i n g beats that feeling. Nothing.

We spent a couple of days in the Puerto del Rey marina of Fajardo to provision and make a couple of repairs and adjustment before undertaking the first passage to the island of Vieques.  Sally and Arnie wanted an easy going short passage to reacquaint themselves with the boat (it had been 4 years since they sailed) and we hoped to see the bioluminescent bay of Vieques...in 2010, we had not seen anything! Well, although all the conditions seemed right this time, no bioluminescence. Nada. Oh well...

We sailed the south shore of Puerto Rico, stopping in Las Salinas (nice produce market) and in Boquerón, which was very very quiet on that Monday night..but we managed to get a taste of their wonderful mangrove oysters and have a nice chat with friendly Puerto Ricans.