Sugar Sails: Last Island of Happiness, Castro's Cuba

By: Wolfgang Berg

Two fishermen and Hemingway admirers and two sailors set out to explore Cuba by sail.Just before the voyage the Cubans had shot down a small airplane. They had warned that any unauthorized boat or plane will be shot at. From the encounter with a defense station to being pulled off a mud bank, from provincial towns to Havana, the SeaLife crew traveled through a different world. Instead of hostility they experienced help and charm from the friendliest people in the Caribbean, who did not hesitate to issue their political opinion and offer skillful precision repairs and parts machined from scrap metal.The amusingly different characters of the crew experienced the three faces of Cuba: the provincial country, where soldiers prevent them from entering, where a dentist makes more money as a dockhand than a professor; and the historic little town from the pre-automobile age; then fenced-in, ultra-luxurious resorts, where tourists are fed and entertained, and finally Havana, the most beautiful but decaying city in the hemisphere.The approach to Cuba through the Bahamas, and the sail home along the US coast makes Cuba stand out like a different planet.The book describes impressions of three different cultures or better, just countries. That's what travel is meant to be, giving us a feeling for the colorful world in which we live. We do not analyze, we simply observe, sailing along.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1533072167
• ISBN13: 9781533072160
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"