{"id":4606,"date":"2014-04-10T16:28:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T16:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2014-05-01T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:32:05","slug":"barahona-not-boca-chica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=4606","title":{"rendered":"Barahona not Boca Chica"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"One<\/a>

One route to Barhona in the Dominican Republic<\/p><\/div>\n

It took almost 4 days to reach Barahona in the Dominican Republic from Ile a Vache, averaging approximately 50 nautical miles a day. Not a \u201cSpeedy Gonzales\u201d effort, but fast enough to have my new friends (Andy and Trudy in the catamaran \u201cManureva\u201d), when I met them again in Boca Chica (two days later), wondering about their boats performance.<\/p>\n

Well my friends, I was cheating!<\/p>\n

Without the aid of my little 10HP Beta Marine diesel, not only would I have taken much longer, but I might have found myself wrecked upon the eastern side of Cabo Beata.<\/p>\n

After a night fighting a loosing battling for that all important \u201csea-room\u201d, I voted on a \u201cspecial dispensation\u201d to start the motor. Despite the fact that my fuel reserves running worryingly low. While many sailors believe it is a cardinal sin to motor-sail, I’ve never claimed to be one of these \u201cpurists\u201d and believe that if I have to lug an engine around in my boat, I might as well get some use from it. Especially when the alternative is running aground on a lee shore.<\/p>\n

So you can see why I made such rapid progress and why I decided it might be prudent for me to make an unscheduled stop to stock up on more fuel.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The tiny marina in Barahona<\/p><\/div>\n

Besides, Barahona is an interesting town and while I only stayed long enough to check-in with the authorities, I’d recommend it to other sailors as an agreeable port of call.<\/p>\n

I had fun riding on the back of a motor scooter carrying my jerry-cans to the service station, listening to bachata music and having an informal beer with the immigration officer (out of office hours of course)!<\/p>\n

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It took almost 4 days to reach Barahona in the Dominican Republic from Ile a Vache, averaging approximately 50 nautical miles a day. Not a \u201cSpeedy Gonzales\u201d effort, but fast enough to have my new friends (Andy and Trudy in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1095],"tags":[1361,1364,1362,1363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4609,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}