Caribbean Cruising Season 2023 Recap

We’re back in NH. We rolled into our driveway around 2:30am last Saturday, the 17^th. Our New England boat, Dumbledore, has been launched. We’re working on getting him ready for a 4-6 week cruise along the coast of Maine starting sometime in July. Until then, we’re visiting family and friends, and getting in a bunch of appointments.

Between January and mid-June, we put on a lot of miles and visited a lot of islands. Here’s a recap.

• Miles traveled (nm):   ~1300
• Countries visited:        9
• Nights at anchor:        89
• Nights on mooring:     42
• Nights in marinas:       16
• Nights under way:      5
• Nights ashore:             7

We started in the Berry Islands, Bahamas, on January 8^th. After that we went to Turks & Caicos, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Martin (both the French and Danish sides), St. Bart’s, and ended at St. Kitt’s. We stayed in 46 different anchorages, 6 different mooring fields and 6 different marinas. We took road trips with friends to Santo Domingo, DR and Old San Juan, PR. We made overnight passages from Rum Cay to Mayaguana; from Turks & Caicos to Luperón; from Luperón to Rio San Juan; from Escondido to Puerto Real, PR; and from the USVI to St. Martin.

We did a lot more “making miles” than I would have liked, but we did finally get to the actual Caribbean Sea, which was our target this year. Next season we plan to confine our travels to the area between St. Kitt’s and the Spanish Virgin islands. It will be lovely to spend multiple weeks in each country next.

Thanks for following my adventures. I will post about our coast of Maine travels this summer, but perhaps not as frequently as I typically do.

Stay safe and take care of each other!