Tuesday March 13th 2007 Let us tell you that updating everything is something of an adventure here… The last time we made the long hike to the town of Grande Goave to update our last posting, arriving there to find out that the electrical power was out (no Surprise here!)! We were told that the power had been out for some 4 days by then, something to do with a fallen tree near by. With no idea as to when the power will be restored, we where kindly offered by the owners the internet service, that we could rent a local [View Full Entry]

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Early March 2007 It has been a long time since our last update!!! with our busy travels to Montreal and now back in Haiti… time has been passing us by faster than we have ever imagined! But we have not forgotten about our readers, we will set foot to town (a half hour hike) as there is supposedly an internet connection there, which will allow us to post our updates, so if you are reading this, it means it worked!!. Since our last update, this is what we have been up to: Early Wednesday morning, Feb 14th Valentines day, Annie and [View Full Entry]

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Monday, February 12th 2006 After some ten weeks now in Haiti, Annie & I will be flying back to Montreal Canada on Wednesday Feb 14th, from Port au Prince, for a short visit to see our Family and Friends. After which we will be returning to Haiti on the 26th of the month. Our last sailing destination was Grande Goave, Haiti (18º 25’ 759N 072º 45’ 226W). Grande Goave is located on the South East coast line. This is the location we have dropped a new mooring and where we have left her…..s/v My Love III that is, for the duration [View Full Entry]

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It’s already the end of January 2007… it has been eight weeks that we have now been in Haiti., and we are still going strong… As you can see from the sporadic updates, the internet connections are always proving to be a great challenge here, we even have a internet connection via Haitel (local cellular phone company) using their cellular network, but this is still not working in places we seem to be. In result we are not always able to update everything, but when we find internet service, we do our best to update all.. Other than that, Annie & [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, We have now been in Haiti for six weeks and it has been some fourteen weeks since we set sail south from Lake Champlain New York. Annie & I are doing great and we are taking everything in stride. Our Creole is improving and our adaptation here is on going day by day. Since our last update this is what we have been up to. Still after six weeks we have not met even one other foreign cruising vessel. We are told that there are a few cruising boats at Ile la Vache, we’ll tell you more once we [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday January 10 2007 Ile de la Gonave, Haiti It has been, believe it or not, five weeks since we arrived in Haiti. We are still adjusting to the daily life and the culture here, a true challenge in itself. Many here say that you never get used to this country… you just accept and adapt to how things are. We are starting to believe that this is true. Most times, we feel as if we are missionary’s here. There is a huge mixture of emotions for us and we are making the best of our time here in order to [View Full Entry]

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December 22nd 2006 Returning to Port Au Prince After leaving the boat in Montrouis, we took route via automobile for Port au Prince, where we are at the moment at the Letendre’s home. We have a few holiday gatherings that we will be attending, and should be back onboard by later this week. Montrouis is approximately a one hour drive,, if there is no traffic in Port au Prince! Which is almost all the time in the Port au Prince, traffic that is! The route is from paved with tons of potholes to dirt road,, and you have to keep a [View Full Entry]

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December 19th 2006 Internet service is scarce in the Providences so we can only update our blog when we are in Port au Prince. As for us, we are safe and well, life has been on the adaptation side, with learning to ingest all that takes place here with the poor, United Nations presence, decrypting the Creole language, the shear amount of people everywhere and every day life. Haiti is a unique place, very different from what we have already visited in the Caribbean. I would say it is more like Africa with a Caribbean flair. The country side is quite [View Full Entry]

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Sunday December 10th 2006 We spent a great day in Montrouis, during which we had a great day sail with our friends aboard followed by an incredible Creole feast that was prepared for us. Afterward we were driven to Port au Prince which is about 75 kilometers away. We needed to go to Port au Prince to do our Immigration and customs declarations, since we were not able to do them in Saint Nicolas. Not to our surprise, as the officials are not use too seeing pleasure boat cruisers here, which resulted in the paperwork needing to be processed could not [View Full Entry]

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Saturday December 9th 2006 We lifted anchor during early morning at 6:15am, with a last wave from the friendly villagers along the shore line as we set sail for our next destination Montrouis. As we sailed out of the harbor we meet up with many of the local fishermen, who also kindly waved too us in farewell. One thing for sure is we will be returning to this amazingly undiscovered place. Montrouis is some 90 nautical miles south east from Le Mole Saint Nicolas making the trip about a ten hour crossing. The weather was on the very calm side, making [View Full Entry]

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