I realized that I am such a WildChild in my own spirit.If you are curious and like to read books… You can go on Amazon.com and find my book about my 2013 solo kayak adventure around lake Ontario. You can also throw in a few potential thunderstorms too! I was certain the Navy was after us for skipping town. Do not try to control us… you might find it frustrating._______________________________Because things went so easily and perfectly though we made the crossing much shorter than my plan and much faster than expected… so we ended up arriving in the dark.
Sailing From the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico – Crossing the Mona Passage into the Caribbean January 3, 2019; Happy Thanksgiving from the Archipelago Crew! You can also throw in a few potential thunderstorms too!The sun setting over the Dominican RepublicWe were heading into huge waves with big swells hitting us on the side of the boat. She took off, making better than eight knots most of the trip.
Thursday, we turned and headed north along the coast to the marina at Puerto del Rey in Fajardo, getting caught in a series of storms (squalls) that lasted for hours and played havoc with the wind. I brought it up to the sugar scoop (the back step of the boat), and just when I reached to grab the leader, his fin nicked the line, and everything was over as suddenly as it started. We were heading to Luperon, our hurricane home for 6 months. Sailing Across The Mona Passage. When I looked up, I saw that the main sail had gone noticeably slack, and we quickly worked to determine what had happened.
You can also throw in a few potential thunderstorms too! We could tell when we were sailing over a peak or underwater hill, you could see it and feel it in the wave patterns. Sailing the Mona Passage I think last Blog I was able to share the details about our great 3 day sail to the east end of the DR where we found a nice little place to anchor just east of Samana. Sailing the Mona Passage West; Spinnaker Sailing; The Full Story (Downwind Sailing) After a good day and night’s rest, it was time for us to leave Puerto Rico’s West Coast. There’s no other way to put it, our passage from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico sucked. I do not care how long it has been inactive… one little volcanic burp and your boat loses bouyancy in the bubbles and sinks and you die. Acceleration zones such as the Windward and Mona Passage are well documented. Not once did we see any other boats or ships. We just go around them.WildChild sailed easily and happily for 35 hours to make the 140 mile crossing in relatively easy conditions.
GratitudeThen it changed its angle to intercept us.But it wasn’t the Navy! In fact, our chances of seeing our friends before they flew back to America were diminishing quickly.So if we did it again, we’d motor along the coast after the sunset. All of a sudden the Caribbean Ocean narrows down into the Atlantic or visa versa. All of a sudden the Caribbean Ocean narrows down into the Atlantic or visa versa.
The area between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico is called the Mona Passage.
It is called Crazy Winds and it is available in paperback and E-Book if you read on a Kindle like I do.When sailing Elena and I are not exactly strict about rotating shifts, we each just do what time we can at the helm and when we get tired or feel we should try and get some rest we just ask the other to switch off with us.
What we did see was 2 meter large far apart ocean swell that passed under us so gently the boat hardly rolls over unto its side. The thing about sailing is you always hear the horror stories… nobody tells the easy passage stories. Coast Guard rescue crews and the crew of Good Samaritan sailing vessel rescued three French boaters from a sinking catamaran approximately 25 nautical miles southeast of Mona Island, ... On January 28, 2016 / By Administrator.. We were sailing nicely ESE about 15 miles offshore of the DR as the sunset.We made it in without incident and in the end this was probably one of the easiest night time harbour entrances I have ever made.
Some sailors sail but this will obviously take much longer.If you fail to plan for sailing across the Mona Passage, the waterway between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, you might find yourself in some majorly harsh sea conditions. No thank you.. no benefit to taking that tiny risk. What happens is the land cools quicker than the deep sea which deflects the tradewinds. But about an hour into our trip, we were both at the helm when we saw a power boat speeding toward us on our port flank.A couple of hours later, we were making great time into the wind when I heard a very loud “bang!” from somewhere above me.
Sailing Vessel Ondine Rescues 3 French Boaters in the Mona Passage. The Mona Passage stretches between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, and there has been a lot written about it.