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Background: The native Arawak Amerindians - who inhabited the island of Hispaniola when it was discovered by Columbus in 1492 - were virtually annihilated by Spanish settlers within 25 years. In the early 17th century, the French established a presence on Hispaniola, and in 1697, Spain ceded to the French the western third of the island - Haiti. The French colony, based on forestry and sugar-related industries, became one of the wealthiest in the Caribbean, but only through the heavy importation of African slaves and considerable environmental degradation. In the late 18th century, Haiti's nearly half million slaves revolted under Toussaint L'OUVERTURE and after a prolonged struggle, became the first black republic to declare its independence in 1804. Haiti has been plagued by political violence for most of its history. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

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By WeBeSailing
February 12th 2007

Grande Goave, Haiti

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Maxo! from Grande Goave
This is Maxo, a local fishermen from Grande Goave, Haiti.. He helped us cut some fishing line from our propeller, after which he kindly asked if we could bring him back a newer pair of diving fins,,, ... [more]

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]

By WeBeSailing
January 30th 2007

Bria, Haiti

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Baraderes River
Annie on the Baraderes river

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]

By WeBeSailing
January 17th 2007

Haiti, After Six Weeks!!

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Sunset
One more beautiful sunset!!!

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]

Northeast coast line of Haiti (Gulf Side)

By WeBeSailing
January 10th 2007

Ile de la Gonave, Haiti

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Local Children
Local children came in their BOIS FOUILLE, as soon are we dropped anchor, to greet us and to get a closer look at the Catamaran, never seen here.

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]

By WeBeSailing
December 22nd 2006

Port au Prince Haiti II

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Local venders
Local venders in Port au Prince

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]

Haitian sharpening knifes road side, in Port au Prince

By WeBeSailing
December 19th 2006

Montrouis to Baradaires Haiti

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Village of Baradaires

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]

By WeBeSailing
December 11th 2006

Port au Prince Haiti

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Tap Tap (One Love)

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]

By WeBeSailing
December 10th 2006

Montrouis Haiti

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Haitian sailboat
Near St Marc Haiti

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]

By WeBeSailing
December 9th 2006

Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti

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Mole Saint Nicolas
We are passengers aboard this small fishing vessel, being oared to land by the locals.

Mole St-Nicolas: We sailed into this very picturesque village just after 2:30 pm Friday, to a gracious welcome by the villagers along the shore line. It felt as if we where Christopher Columbus ourselves!! What a feeling to arrive in a small, very secluded place were very few come visit. Some of the local fishermen came to us offering their catches of fish, lobster and conch. We exchanged a handful of Gourdes (local Haitian currency) for 10 lobsters, which calculated too around 15 dollars US. After which we went to shore, by way of their local wooden fishing boat, oared by [View Full Entry]

By Mok
April 7th 2006

Haiti 31/03/06 - 07/04/06

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Haiti40

Arrived in Port Au Prince Haiti after a long and often delayed trip from the UK. It all started really well; we were upgraded into business class on our trip over from the UK to Washington. Unfortunately from then on there were countless delays due to fuel leaks on the plane and passengers being taken ill.... The trip was tiring, but once we reached Haiti, any difficulties were quickly put to the back of our minds. It was my third visit and my dads first visit to the country that is the poorest in the western world. Haiti is however a [View Full Entry]

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