Hotel Palacio del Marqués de San Felipe y Santiago de Bejucal, Havana, Cuba - Hotel Overview

http://www.hotelmarquesdesanfelipe.com/hotel_details.asp

Happy Trails

Well, followers of Sailbonanza, it's time for us to say goodbye to sailing for now and close down this blog.

Bonanza spent the summer at the Island Packet brokerage dock in Tampa. Just when it looked like we would be heading back to Florida for another season of cruising, we got an offer on the boat. The new owners of Bonanza take over in a couple of weeks. We wish them all the best in their new adventure. Go on over and say hello if you see them along the way.

 

We will keep our sailbonanza@gmail email address open.

Happy Trails,

Michelle and Roy

Blue Fin Tuna Canada Style

No, we didn't catch this on Bonanza. Roy and I are visiting Prince Edward Island on the East coast of Canada by car. Today we were driving around looking at boats and the ocean when we pulled into Sea Cow Harbour on the West end of the island. An 807 pound Atlantic Blue Fin tuna greeted us at the dock. What an incredible sight. We met the captain and he told us how he and his crewman fought it for about two hours. His 40 foot power boat "Jolie" had no way to land the tuna so they summoned a fellow fisherman who's boat had a crane, to help get the beast on-board. Once lowered from the hoist, this guys was dressed, packed in ice and headed to Japan before nightfall. Happy fishing all!

More Blue Fin

Noonsite Reports

Here are some articles that I've written for Noonsite which is a website dedicated to sharing information with cruising sailors.

Jamaica
http://www.noonsite.com/Members/sue/R2010-05-06-2

Haiti
http://www.noonsite.com/Members/sue/R2010-04-01-3

Dominican Republic
http://www.noonsite.com/Members/sue/R2010-03-15-3

Docked in Tampa

It was a long, long way around the western tip of Cuba and we made it! Now we have Bonanza listed for sale with Massey Brokers here in Palmetto, Florida. 

Here is a view from the top on the mast. I had to go up to try to discover why the main halyard decided to snap right at the top. Luckily the main sail dropped neatly along the Dutchman lines right onto the boom. For the next couple hundred miles it was the jib, the cutter and the iron gennaker pushing us along.

Landfall in Dry Tortugas Florida