Catamaran delivery from Puerto Rico to Charleston - Dominican republic

Leaving Boquerón in the morning, we began our first 2 days+ passage from Puerto Rico to Luperon, Dominican Republic.  When we did this very same trip in 2010 with our own sailboat. the crossing of the Mona passage had been very smooth. Well, this time, the seas were bumpy and we got acquainted with catamaran sailing in bumpy seas..wow! as if cannon balls were hitting the hulls and the bridge at each and every wave...it took sometime to get used to it, a bit.
 (love mono hulls!  So much smoother!)


The passage went well, with good winds (20knots +) to push us at a very good speed towards our destination.  We did not want to enter the bay of Luperon in darkness so we drastically diminish the sails in order to diminish our speed.

Once more, we were stunned - and so were our friends -  by the beauty of the Luperon anchorage.

 

Luperon had changed since our last visit in 2010. For one, the streets were all paved (the process started in 2010, in the course of an election!!) and now, horse riders took on the street, a rare occurrence, we were told!

 

 

Another celebration took place during our short stay, namely the fiesta of the Quinceanera, a typical tradition in latino countries.  Quinceanera "is the celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday in parts of Latin America and elsewhere in communities of people from Latin America. This birthday is celebrated differently from any other as it marks the transition from childhood to youngwomanhood.^[1] The celebration, however, varies significantly across countries, with celebrations in some countries taking on, for example, more religious overtones than in others."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincea%C3%B1eraThe celebration here was for the daughter of the owners of the restaurant De France, main street Luperon. The people of Luperon were as generous and warm as we had them in our memories.