In this video, Cuba for Cruisers, HELP, We Don't Speak Spanish! we leave Santiago de Cuba with our traveller fully functional again and continue along the South coast of Cuba, headed for the Garden of the Queen Archipeligo and stopping a few times along the way. We have a few brushes with the La Guarda Harbour Masters and discover how bad our Spanish is but soon learn how to make arrangements to anchor the boat overnight to rest. We visit the beautiful island of Cabo Blanco and trade some shoes and soap for a huge King Makarel! #sailingchannel #cruisingcuba #learnspanish If you like our videos and want to see more/better videos, more often you can become a patreon supporter: https://www.patreon.com/sailingbalachandra If you haven't yet SUBSCRIBED and want to see more please click the SUBSCRIBE button above, and be sure to give this video a like! In August of 2017 we sold everything and moved aboard Balachandra, a 1986 C&C44 sailboat, then sailed it over 300 nautical miles to Halifax Nova Scotia to spend a cold Canadian winter in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic. Sailing Balachandra is our YouTube sailing vlog inspired by other great channels such as Delos and La Vagabonde, which documents the sailing adventures of myself and my partner Nawal as we navigate the globe. We also dive into lots of DIY boat projects both above and below decks, and share with you all of the pros and cons of living aboard full time. Sailing Balachandra is published weekly so please subscribe so you don't miss out on future videos! This video was shot with equipment from Optrix by Body Glove, Nikon, Apple, GoPro, and Polaroid Opening Theme Music: License Info: Beautiful Story / Taketones.com Used with a Paid Licence / Permission PURCHASED MUSIC: LINK: https://taketones.com/track/beautiful-story LICENSE N: TTEXTENDED157339559892860327 EXTENDED Special Thanks to our Cuban friends Group Nucay for giving us permision to use to use their album "Tropicalissimo" throughout our YouTube series. Other Music: the YouTube Music Library Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sailingbalachandra Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sailingbalachandra Instagram: http://instagram.com/sailing_balachandra

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in this episode we leave santiago then

sail along the south coast of cuba to

cabo cruz

then continue on into the archipelago

known as the garden of the queen

last time on sailing balachandra we

arrived in cuba

where we had our pcr test and did our

customs clearance

we got our mainsail traveler repaired

and we visited the town of santiago

if you're new to the channel hi i'm

noelle and i'm dan and we're sailing

bella chandra

we sailed all the way from halifax nova

scotia

to the caribbean that's right we're

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all right we left santiago to cuba late

in the day

and we are going to sail overnight to

the next anchorage

cabo cruz or one of the anchorages just

before cabo cruise

going to start cruising the south coast

of cuba port by port

to see what we can see and do what we

can do and start

enjoying the cruising life of south cuba

when you leave

a port like we just left santiago you

need to get

some paperwork done before you go with

the officials it's like a

dispatchio and dominican republic very

similar basically

documents from one customs guy to the

next

so we have to get that one hour before

you depart

light wind tonight so that's good it's

the boat won't be healed over too far

and nawal and i might get some sleep we

got the mainsail

traveler repaired and it's looking real

good we got the main up right now

actually on the new connection and it's

holding really well but it's beefed up

really

serious so we're not worried about it

and we're flying the big 135 jib

on an upwind sail and uh you know really

really light wind but we're still doing

like four knots with

you know hardly any wind

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so

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okay we sailed all night and then all

day just about and we're about to anchor

in

punta raza which is our first anchorage

outside of a port of entry here

in cuba pretty happy with the repair we

did to the traveler

we flew the mainsail all day today and

it was really strong so we're feeling

pretty confident in that repair

you looking dad

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so we were here in punta raza for the

night we were not planning to leave this

early in the morning

but the harbour master came over this

morning and told us we had to leave at 7

am so i'm not really sure what that's

about because we were told that we could

stop

kind of indefinitely along the south

coast so maybe that's just this

this place there's not much to see and

do here anyway so i

said sure we started up the boat we're

gonna get going

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so

sunset we're almost at our anchorage

hopefully we beat the sun

and get the hook down because we don't

know what we're anchoring in and it's

actually quite shallow

okay we're just approaching the canal

the cuatro

which is the canal between the south

caribbean sea

and the inner archipelagos of southern

cuba

so soon we'll go through this canal and

then we'll be in mixed with a bunch of

small

little deserted islands and it should be

small deserted islands for the next

little while as we

transit through this area so we're

looking forward to it's gonna be kind of

cool

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all right so we had a nice little stop

at kyle blanco and as soon as we dropped

the hook

a local fishing boat came over and said

their hellos but they were speaking

fluent spanish and no english so we did

our best to

communicate but we ended up trading some

shoes and soap and stuff for a great big

fish

so now we're we have a freezer full of

fish to eat so that's pretty sweet

i went ashore with zeus and we had a

little walk and checked it out

there's like this bold wreck of a metal

ship

still there kind of a dock and this

beautiful beach and it was really nice

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so we've left there now and we have gone

through the channel

in a couple days we're supposed to have

some very

heavy winds coming out of the northeast

so

we might leave tomorrow and head farther

inland and find some better protection

so we'll see

so in cuba when you are at the marina

and you're about to travel

you tell them where you want to go and

where you're going to be and

we told them san fuego which is the next

major city

heading along the coast but stan fuego

is very far away from

from santiago and on the way there's

lots of little islands to stop and we

were told that we can stop wherever we

want to

take a rest and uh get you know give

ourselves a break on the way

which could extend our trip up to two

weeks the first two anchorages we had

stopped at

we were right away called on the vhf

radio sailing barco

ceiling barco but after that it was all

spanish and

if you don't have wi-fi or some kind of

way to do google translate

on your phone you're kind of pretty much

like just sitting there guessing

so that time when we're beating the

sunset to try to get into

uh the anchorage of cabo cruz hoping

that we could drop the anchor in

daylight

we ended up not dropping it in daylight

it was

quite a bit after we were really slow

coming into the anchorage

we dropped our anchor and right away on

the vhf

a gentleman came on speaking spanish we

found it very hard to understand

eventually he got on his phone and

started doing

google translate as to what he's

trying to communicate continue the march

continue the march march on you must

march on

yes march march if you stop anywhere

along the coast where there's any

population at all

there are port authorities that are

going to try to contact you

and they have some track record of where

you've been or where you're going

and if you're not on their list they'll

look at your boat and they're not

expecting a boat today

and they assume you shouldn't be there

so right away they're saying like march

on you know continue on

you're not supposed to be here and

that's

what they understand but we are allowed

to stop and rest and if you say

those words uh specifically like we're

only here to rest

and we have no intention of going ashore

they really don't want you to go to land

that's a big deal

they say i don't want to go to land

we're just going to rest they'll give

you up to 24 hours to stay in one spot

even if it's on the coast

the direct coast of cuba but if you grab

an anchorage that's on one of the little

old islands especially down here closer

to the garden of the queen

there are no people living on these

islands there's no authorities

and they won't call you there's no way

to contact you and you can basically

spend as much time as you want cruising

along

through these islands so learn those

words in spanish we're just stopping to

rest

we will be gone at seven a.m

yeah i forget we did it

you might get lucky it was cute

listening to dan before he could figure

out the microphone

uh how to speak spanish how to say the

words in spanish he's

sitting there over the vhf radio trying

to speaks

read spanish if you're using google

translate there's a button there to

actually

the phone will talk for you in the in

the language so even if you're

in an animated voice yeah so if

we have a little speaker we were putting

the speaker like right in front of the

vhf

transceiver and playing the spanish

words and it worked it was okay

so and then and then i think we did that

and the reply was okay good night

in english surprisingly but if you're

lucky and if you do have like we had

this cold front move through

and we've been anchoring along the coast

because of you know

it's too violent out towards the garden

of the queen so we were anchoring very

close to shore

and uh the last time we did it a fella

came across the radio and he actually

spoke really good english and it was

simple and we were all

worried and had our spanish stuff all

written out in front of us we didn't

yeah we were super prepared

for the one time we're prepared he's

just like g'day

like what brush up on your spanish

before coming to cuba

not even brush up just know like some of

the basic words

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