In September 2001 my wife Lynnie and I left Orr’s Island Maine for a 3-year cruise. We sailed down the coast to Florida and over to Cuba, Belize and Guatemala. The summer of 2002 my son Chris joined us for the sail across the Atlantic to Spain, where we wintered in Rota. The summer of 2003 we sailed into the Mediterranean as far as Turkey. We returned to Rota and crossed the Atlantic via the Canary Islands to Barbados with friend Steve Keener aboard. We cruised through the Caribbean and returned to Maine in June 2004.
Cape Cod Canal September 2001
Making pizza
Dear friends Scott & Kitty Kuhner, 2x circumnavigators
Pinch me, we’re in Havana
“Camel” bus in downtown Havana
Roadside sign
Our first of many hitch-hike rides. Hitchhiking around Cuba was one of the favorite memories of our entire 3-year trip.
Easy to make friends in Cuba
Pizza for 20 cents
Our B&B hosts cooked an entire pig for one dinner
Trinidad, an historic UNESCO town
Juanona leading the January 1 (Anniversary of the Revolution) International Yacht Race. We later learned the race was broadcast on live TV.
Dive fisherman at Rendezvous Cay, Belize
Coffee beans drying, Lake Atitlan Guatemala
Guatemalan marketplace
Entering the Rio Dulce, Guatemala
Chicken Bus
San Francisco de Alto animal market
Tikal
Chichen Itza
Navigating through the reef at Glovers Atoll
Lynnie and Chris, on passage Florida to Bermuda
Landfall at beautiful Flores, Azores
Flores, Azores
Miracle healer who cured Lynnie’s back problem
Grinding corn with an ancient water mill
The seawall at Horta, Azores
Adding our name
Juanona at Horta, with Pico in the background
Fort on Terceira, Azores. The gridwork once contained sharp vertical spears hidden under a false ground.
Rio Guadiana between Spain and Portugal
Marrakesh, Morocco. The festival has occurred here daily since medieval times.
Medicines and spices.
Our host family taught us to make Tagine
Lynnie, Abdul and camel named Jimmy Hendrix”
Todra Gorge in the Atlas Mountains
Max and his mom check out a cork tree in Portugal
Our Dutch dock-mate at winter berth in Rota, Spain
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So we tied up Lark at the Sanitary Fish Market in Morehead City, NC. The dock was full and a sail boat cruises by slow looking for a spot. I said “hey, you can raft up to us” and the boat goes around to raft up. As it goes around I notice the hail, Orrs Island, ME. As they approach to raft up I say to the woman on the bow, “I only know one person from Orrs Island, Max Fletcher”. She says, “yup, he’s driving the boat”. Hahaha. Small world, fun reunion!!
Sailing Stories - Max Fletcher 
So we tied up Lark at the Sanitary Fish Market in Morehead City, NC. The dock was full and a sail boat cruises by slow looking for a spot. I said “hey, you can raft up to us” and the boat goes around to raft up. As it goes around I notice the hail, Orrs Island, ME. As they approach to raft up I say to the woman on the bow, “I only know one person from Orrs Island, Max Fletcher”. She says, “yup, he’s driving the boat”. Hahaha. Small world, fun reunion!!
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