Boat to Cuba?

# 9 lighten up. Perhaps this board is not for you.

Did you read #6? Maybe this board isn't for them.

Hang in there LesliePear! There's usually (not always) some good information to be had, but you do have to wade through the crap. (And if you think this is bad, you should have been around for the last year--and I'm NOT kidding!)

Actually, LesliePear, I see that you were around. In which case, you know what I'm talking about.

Schwuller, please note that the two posters who managed to score yatch rides to Cuba did so some years back. It has very definitely gotten much more difficult. Not entirely impossible, though, if you've got good yatch-hitching skills, and lots and lots of time to hang about in the port of your departure.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I LOVE the boat questions and the answers and I never get tired of them. Adds some light and easy humour to this forum

I think too, OP, that you missed the meaning of FormerlyFantasia's "red"-iculous comment. While it was indirectly a spelling correction, it's more than just that. Agree or not -- cute/clever, imo.

Oops, last comment wasn't for the OP, but for LesliePear. Smile - it's only an internet bb :-)

#1and #2s reply/solution is historical information and is not possible today, nor has it been for the past 3 years.

#3 / 7 is of course the Forum clown.

And me? Ive got around 25 trips to Cuba with around 7 to 8 trips by boat (no, knot on the ferrie), so I know a little about the nuances of getting to Cuba by boat.

Cubafish, my information from people trying to get to Cuba by boat is basically the same as yours (not possible!) although I did say "not entirely impossible if you've got good yatch-hitching skills and lots and lots of time to hang around the port of depature."
My question to you, which I think might also be something the OP and other boat-seekers might want to know is: if it's NOT POSSIBLE today, why not?

Yatchs do put into Marina Hemingway from all over the world, so--what has changed that might make it now utterly impossible for someone to hitch a ride on a non-US boat sailing to Cuba from a non-US port or colony?

I assume Cubafish's "not possible" is regarding yachts departing from the US. It was certainly feasible years ago, but as he says, no longer.

As for yacht hitchhikers from other countries, as of late February this year Immigration at Hemmingway Marina had not processed a single entry for a person hitching a ride on a boat in the previous year. I'm not saying it's not possible - just that it's (obviously) extremely unlikely.

Cheers,
Terry

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<hr>That's a stretch. I don't know any Americans dying to get to Cuba by any means of transportation. Comparing Americans traveling to Cuba and Cubans trying to escape Castro's regime is a little disrespectful, I think. . . . .

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I believe I said tourists Leslie--not Americans. Most of the questions about ferries and boats are not posted by Americans, not that it really matters. I know how Americans get to Cuba and I frequently provide information on the easiest and cheapest ways to do it. In that sense this board is for me.

Getting to Cuba by sea apparantly fascinates a catagory of travelers who have seem to have romantic notions about traveling in general. For some reason it periodically pops up here---moreso in the past than now. Fantasia Ferries was an over-the-top spoof making fun of that FAQ. It is nothing more than that.

I'm sorry that you do not appreciate the irony between a silly travel question and a very real socio/economic/political issue. If anything the original question was more disrespectful than my response. Any disrespect in my response was directed towards seagoing tourists, not those Cubans who risk their lives trying to leave. The OP actually got more factual information than this throw away question usually gets or deserves.