Sail With Winterlude
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  • WL Updates Fall 2012-Spring 2013
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  • Day By Day 2011 Refit
  • "Refit" SW Florida 2010
  • 2009 - 2010 Colon, Panama to Florida
  • Annapolis to SW Florida
  • 2004 - 2005 Cut The Dock Lines! NW Caribbean
    • Goodbye Burnt Store! Off to Marathon Key
    • Waiting For Weather: Marathon
    • Our First Crossing: Dry Tortugas to Isla Mujeres>
      • Handbasket I
      • Handbasket II
      • Handbasket III
    • Isla Contoy and Isla Mujeres
    • Weather In Isla
    • Culebra Cays, Bahia de la Ascension, MX
    • San Pedro, Belize
    • Lamanai, Belize
    • Drowned Cayes & Belize City
    • Reflections On Cruising From Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize
    • Lighthouse Reef Atoll Con't
    • Tobacco & Colsen Cayes & Bluefield Range, Belize
    • Rio Dulce, Guatemala
  • About David & Jan
  • Life Inside Winterlude
  • Outfitting Winterlude
    • Getting Ready to Cut the Dock Lines
    • Changes Cruising the Western Caribbean
    • What Works & What Doesn't
  • Catamaran Hotel & Resort, Rio Dulce, Guatemala
  • Hurricane Charley
  • 2001-2004 Getting Ready Adventures
  • Tiger Cruise: US Navy
  • Lessons From The Bay Islands 2005-2006 (incl Robbed in Utila)
    • Robbed In Utila
    • Easting To Guanaja
    • Lucky Enough ... Jonesville, Roatan
    • One Particular Cut

Cut The Docklines!
Florida to Yucatan, Belize and the Rio Dulce, Guatemala!

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Winterlude at Half Moon Caye, Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize
7 years in the planning, dreaming & preparing, s/v Winterlude finally tossed the docklines on October 28, 2004 -- the morning after a lunar eclipse as a send-off!  :)   Leaving Burnt Store Marina & Punta Gorda, FL, we sailed first to Marathon, FL to meet some friends so David could experience Key West's FantasyFest for the first time!    We spent 3 weeks in Marathon waiting for a weather window to cross to Isla Mujeres across the Gulf Stream twice -- first from the Dry Tortugas to the north coast of Cuba and then across the most feared Yucatan Straits to Isla Mujeres.  We arrived in Isla on November 22nd,  282 miles, 63 hours & alot of newly found experience later! 
The individual updates are my original e-mail updates to Winterlude's e-mail list, with photos!  Click on the individual tabs for more of the adventure -- and the lessons we learned -- some you might choose not to replicate, others are useful and have been incorporated into our cruising lifestyle! 

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