Thread: sailing boat
View Single Post
  #9  
Old 03-30-2008, 11:55 AM
Texas Bill Texas Bill is offline
Gold
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,084
Texas Bill Level 2 Texas Bill Level 2 (102)
Default

sandgay;

There is only ONE chart of Hispaniola that I know of and it is a publication circa 1950's from NOAA. Nota at all up to date.
The portion covering a couple of the Ports, three each in the DR and Haiti, which are severly out of date.
My sincere adviseto you is DON'T EVEN TRY TO SAIL THE WATERS OF HISPANIOLA without a LOCAL, experienced captain doing the navigating and boat handling.
You won't find many of these types experienced in SAIL. They'll tell you they are , but don't believe them. On top ofthet, any boating offshore of Haiti is subject to being boarded by pirate types.
Just a word to the wise and cautious.

Texas Bill
Reply With Quote