Belize holds a special part in Cathie’s heart. It is where she spent the first eight years of her life. I feel it helped shape her into the wonderful person she is today.

Cathie would have been the only white person in her school classes, Sunday school and group of friends. This perhaps strengthened Cathies strong caring feeling for what’s right and fare. No special treatment based on color, religion or financial status. I’ll let you know her husband does get special treatment however 🥰. Cathie and I also came to Belize about 20 years ago, on our honeymoon🥰 .

OK, back to the trip. We stocked up quite well at Puerto Rico, making a few Costco runs, grocery runs, and fuel.

The plan was to sail from Puerto Rico to Belize in one go, this would have been 1300 nautical miles. That’s about 2400 kilometres, straight line like Vancouver to somewhere in Ontario. And we go about 10 kilometres/hour.

Our star link wasn’t working correctly, so would not be able get weather updates on route, with this information we decided to pull the trigger on plan B. Stop in Dominican Republic.

It was a great stop in Santo Domingo. The people in the marina were so friendly and helpful. They made checking in and out of the country very smooth. We also took time to check out some of DR.

Well another good weather window opened, and we decided to jump through it. Now we were only 1000 Nm from Belize.