Forced to sea with three hrs notice. I was docked in Puerto Vita Cuba from March 15th to March 22nd, 2020. Luckily the weather window looked good, but being ...

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picking up shells in the sand

pong and porta Vita the Cuban government

closed down all ports all marinas and

kicking out all the tourists so they

came to my bullet around nine o'clock

this morning and said you gotta leave I

said

something that I did

Baltar's all boats muscly

I'm sailing off to West Palm Beach it's

a three-day sail

long passages like that but

I got no choice

had east

is closed

Lorna here to come well I just got to

say it I mean sale up right now I might

put the jet boat have plenty of wind

here over 25 knots

anyways the main seems to be pushing me

pretty good

what's asking and they get the Merina

what's happening

she said yeah couple of Tours sick virus

one Canadian that was actually hotel

that movie stayed two days the hotel

didn't even warn us that there was

don't be you

I picked it up because she said it was

the best

we've got a lot of time in our room and

a particular tourist is in the hospital

right now

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to the marina we have a message for it I

thought oh my goodness this is serious I

thought maybe something happened with my

tail and I haven't had any

communications with her because

turned off I guess I'm feeling fine but

the doc came yesterday

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in tomorrow we will calm down for two

days

I'm going in the doll stream

but anyways check windy and I didn't see

anything no huge squalls coming nasty

weather computer it's like a hour

so I was able to check that at least but

and then it was something on Facebook

some dating hours

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I did call this is important protection

two days maybe three days

whether or not that changes

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last I heard they were doing the same or

they were talking about internet on my

cell phone or any data on myself

is what it is stated in that dr but the

people in dr are kind of isolated to

think they'll let you leave but you

can't come back and you're under 14 day

quarantine

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would be nice to get stronger

again

Radio another large reports were open or

closed

he says there

his crew had to stay on board as he goes

there every week

we transport stuff maybe maybe is one of

those delivery chocolates

this might be different for different

ports

trying to get to West Palm Beach could

support the lake upward paths and

Anchorage's know I'm having problems

over my goodness so hopefully maybe

tomorrow

I thought it was just

the remote

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serious I can't stay at marina

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thousand be is it's been just amazing

just now I discovered it am on a

collision course with this huge cargo

vessel heading to Puerto Plata

please be learning a straight-edged

words me at 17 months so the AAAS tells

you the boat name so I've radioed the

boat

asked if he would like to do port to

port or starboard east ivory

bow but anyways he said I'll change

course so we're gonna do a court to

court

five miles away now so yeah the the

Vesper also has the collision detection

feature it'll go off pretty soon

there's a built-in alarm just depends

the sensitivity the justice bond the gap

but I must have it set for five miles

I was getting pretty close about my

language Olaf but even just see see all

the boats around me on me on cellphone

is tremendous so I'm really I'm really

happy that I purchased that because

there are some ports in the United

States that you need to perked early

early the morning is still dark and you

can't see nothing it's crazy especially

when you're looking through these vinyl

windows what's the glass whatever you

wanna call it that's hard to see

anything which happened to me already

Charleston

some big ships are going here

stay tuned trip to Cuba to West Palm

Beach last night was pretty interesting

because at some points I was certain

down ways that I think I was succeeding

10 knots

and then of course it would slow down to

what seven

so the waves were

fairly huge

winds were strong he picked up for a

while

a few hours but they might have died off

a bit maybe three or four o'clock in the

morning

right now it's calm I got a boat 12

knots apparent from the port starboard

sorry doc port quarter and I need to

make a turn to stay in this on the

channel or I think it's called the old

Bahama channel I was looking at

Navionics ooh now I know why they have

it because it gets pretty shallow you

just continue straight over to Florida

this is a real shallow spot so

definitely want to avoid that

so I'll stay in the Bahamut channel

and then make it turn towards

I got a boat it's 280 miles to go it's

gonna take me at this speed it'll take

me two more days so I don't want to

arrive too early in the morning so I

need to keep it down to about six knots

average once they hit the Gulf Stream

that's gonna be a problem

it's I'm gonna be doing a lot more knots

I'll probably be doing eight knots maybe

even work so I'll have to take that some

sail

well I do see some huge clouds behind me

but catch up to me

mr. wall I don't really need that right

now the sun's out and hopefully that

cloud dissipates well good morning it's

day two of my trip to West Palm Beach

that was an interesting night huh the

waves were fairly large and over 20

knots almost lost my donkey and at some

points I was surfing down ways I was

think it was doing over 10 knots

so I made some great distance last night

so I think I have 200 new ATM nautical

miles to go so I want to try and do that

over two days and I don't want to arrive

before daylight with West Palm Beach

I've got an anchor because the freaking

marinas are so expensive there

five more from five to seven dollars and

that's just not something I want to do

buy fuel and get water from the marina

but I don't think I can afford to stay

there very long so I gotta find a good

Anchorage and Lake work which is west

palm West West Palm Beach

I did stay there when I came around

Florida to Canada originally and it was

okay except for one or two nights when

really picked up and scared the crop on

and I guess I was started I thought it

was starting to drag in the shore

another boat actually did drag him

ashore and I don't know how he got his

boat out but he managed back it over he

didn't have a seat oh so there's nothing

I could do it with my little dinghy

so

really getting concerned I've been in a

black hole sailing

after well 24 hours and then back at the

marina in Cuba for two days with no

information I didn't get any information

about what's happening in

the us live hopefully arenas starting to

are starting to get this over to 19

under control it's like something out of

a science fiction movie what we're

experiencing now just totally

unbelievable really it is

I don't know what's gonna happen

hopefully they hear me in

and I must be quarantined in this report

tonight but I'm feeling fine I mean Who

am I tired

thank goodness because there's some

horror stories like the guy in

that was at our resort in Cuba he is in

critical condition now so it sounds

scary

all this : my team can affect some

people really drastically if others mild

symptoms or a bad flu years I'm not

looking forward to getting this covert

19 I suppose 60 or 70% of us of

eventually get it

some aren't gonna make it well I just

got off the radio with a vessel called

driftwood I had hailed him earlier and

asked him if he had any information on

any port closures in Florida because he

was going to Fort Lauderdale and he

hadn't heard anything but he suspected

that there was a possibility of or

abolitionist at the end of the week so I

was a bit concerned I am I told him I

was him taking another two days to get

into Florida so he just held me back

about five minutes ago and said that he

talked to somebody on land he said it

was a broker or something and the port

see ports are still open but he said the

marinas and the marine services are shut

down in Miami Dade County

yeah so what happened services I guess

if I need gasoline assuming that I can

get cleared in I would have to move it

gas station yeah so that's that is an

update

I guess that is probably a good idea to

start closing things down but I really

hope I can sneak it in under the wire

and at least clear in and if I have to

spend the next couple of months on my

boat in Florida so be it but I do want

to get north hopefully things get

stabilized with the stupid coronavirus

not stay to two o'clock in the afternoon

sorry

very comfortable sails right now

you might be not so wind and I've got

gold sales episode doing about six knots

sometimes seven like an average about

six knots I should arrive in West Palm

Beach Wednesday during the morning and

afternoon I'm not sure what kind of

conditions I'm gonna get on the

Gulfstream the last time I looked at

windy the winds south east

okay and then look the Gulfstream I

probably didn't like eight knots which

might be a little bit too fast on my

optics and sales down right now that

wind is more coming more from the east

I'm hoping it sweeps up to the

Florida hostess as I get closer there

I haven't done this part of the Gulf

Stream so I really don't know the

conditions and I could not get a hold of

Christopher Kirby's I don't have the

transmitting ssp or Internet when I left

Cuba just can't get the updates

but anyways it is supposed it is

supposed to be calm conditions so

whatever happens happens at least be

blowing the 20 knots 30 knots it's

supposed to be

a range of 10 to 15 the last time I

checked back

stays that way otherwise Manfred might

be right I guess morning it's day three

sailing from Cuba to West Palm Beach

trying to get my a SSB receiver working

today

and I could not listen to the Miss

Parker broadcast over the Gulf Stream

crossing really sucks a stupid fixing

back I believe it's the portable antenna

that's given in the problem

it's Rooney's wind-up antennas that

usually I wrap it around the back stand

I have had success in the past although

kind of a weak signal could barely hear

crisper

so I wouldn't rely on these tucson's

unless she wet

but I did manage to contact another

large vessel recreation of vessel and I

guess he has access to Internet via

saath form or something because he said

looks like the crossings pretty good so

he's just off my starboard right now and

he's doing a straight shot to west palm

beach as well he'll be traveling over 10

knots I'm not six knots if I'm lucky

right now I'm not actually in the Gulf

Stream right yet but I'm pointed in that

direction I'll be getting there probably

in the next 12 hours for my

understanding anyway I don't know where

the east wall is but I did get some

coordinates for the center of the Gulf

Stream and the west wall of the Gulf

Stream

so I'm just pointing register right

straight out West Palm Beach right now

there'll be a lot of time I'm gonna be

spending in the Gulf Stream

at this rate right now I might get there

around 10:00 and then watch tomorrow

well what's it getting the Gulf Stream I

should be going pretty big and I may

even have to Mordor if the wind dies

it's looking forward to getting to the

States

I'm already enjoying some radio

broadcasts after am broadcast just in

some information on what's happening in

the states right now guess there's some

more deaths the deaths are in the triple

digits

I think it's up to not sure how many

people are infected right now but the

deaths are I think it's over 400 so

they're saying right now it's about 1%

people died from it in the States

but they're still having problems

getting everybody tested to wants to be

tested so I guess I'm going to just

cross my fingers and hopefully I can

clear in and have access to a store

where I can get an 18-2 SIM card and

otherwise I'll have no communication SIM

card and gasoline that's really what I

need to survive for the next two weeks

maybe some groceries I do have someone

some staples on board but I do like to

go to the restaurants that will probably

be take over at all

West Palm Beach in Lake Worth has two

public docks if I can sneak in there

find a good anchoring spot I have access

to - downtown - Starbucks and couple of

Pizza restaurants so I could probably

survive on that love to see what the dog

Florida laws are right now still need to

get more information

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hardly any wind

five or six knots

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since

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so in the sales

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just amazing

the ocean right now it's

anyways good conditions for motorist or

we can't build your house

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use

diesel engine needs to be worked

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serious

Santa costume I should

in two months

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an Austrian

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finishes in new

the conditions

it's the ghost room

the Commons elephants

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you get opposing you to the bathroom

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elephants

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get into the u.s.

I need some

I just realized something I haven't seen

an airplane a long time

fifteen minutes ago

two towns

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yes

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people don't

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virus

interesting observation of this

a lot of planes

especially about suggest scenario

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see what

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please

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I did try to radio customs and border

protection

as partners in VHF

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yes I'm just gonna go through

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there's more security

the ocean waters

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one thing I notice

there were certainly a lot of to

so a spaceship

these were

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flashing lights on

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there are some huge shots here but the

price to Mort

in West Palm Beach

it's expensive

some boats here

and I used to this plate icw and like

work here

the ratings

zone so idle sleep

is a bridge have to wait for that should

be opening at

forty-five

a little bit too fast Navionics is great

it tells you

and each individual

figure out how to use it

take a walk down by the scene picking up

shells in the side