Court Short

Last year Guanaja, Honduras this year BVI ... if you can't go skiing on your birthday, this has to be the best alternative! Glorious sunshine, turquoise waters, a turtle at your bathing platform, a ray in the bay and chocolate cake on the table!! We're now in Kay Cay, Peter Island with only one other […]

A great week in Ocean Rainbow's calendar. Our youngest granddaughter arrived at 8.52pm (in a bit of a hurry by all accounts!) on Wednesday 15th, weighing 8lbs 1oz. So Emily now has a little sister called Robyn Claire. Mother and baby are both exceedingly well and settling into a routine at home.  And, we have […]

Turtles swimming around the boat again. We are at anchor in Moha Bay, St Johns and enjoying the beauty of our surroundings. After another exhilarating sail in sparkling conditions from St Thomas to St Johns we have taken a buoy in the National Parks. Although surrounded by quite a few yachts, which is not our […]

We've just had two of the best passages this season. Though still sailing hard on the wind, we had beautiful sparkling seas and no crashing or slamming because wave height was down, so Ocean Rainbow was in her element. We're now in St Thomas which is so much nicer than we'd expected and, at night, […]

We chilled out in the beautiful anchorage of Ensenada Del Sol, Vieques to wait out another 4 days of very strong winds. We explored Esperanza - didn't take long! We hiked to see the bioluminescent bay but no bioluminescence because of the weather. We finally made a break for it and sailed as far as […]

We had a lovely trip out to Survivor Falls on the edge of the Carite forest. Not exactly the biggest we had ever seen but certainly one of the prettiest with three pools of crystal clear water. Thank goodness for maps.me as signposts are non existent! Ponce carnival was fun with a lovely family atmosphere […]

Despite getting caught up in a student protest and taking ages to find somewhere to park we had a fabulous day in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. The old town is just gorgeous with its blue cobblestones streets, colourful houses and its castles. We walked miles following the walls of the city, exploring […]

What a great day. We drove a fair few miles deep into karst territory, up hill, down dale, along windy roads with bamboo towering over us, rain forest vegetation on both sides and pot holes beneath us. Our first stop was Cueva Clara in the Parque Las Cavernales Rio Camuy. This cave system is home […]

We have wifi on the boat and the American influence is everywhere - so it's big cars and shopping malls. The only similarity between the countries we have visited so far this season and PR is the language - Spanish is spoken! Gone are the small smiling people in national dress and the funny little […]

We've taken 12 days to sail/motor from Santiago de Cuba to Ponce, Puerto Rico with a two day stop at Isla Beata to shelter from the storm and a night at anchor off Isla Saona just to break the trip and have a swim! A total of 860nm of which 35 hours were spent motoring […]