CRUISE CUBA:  Your destination for advice and planning for a Cruise to Cuba.

  2012 Cuba Updates

Our website, CruisinginCuba.com provides cruisers with useful, up-to-date information on current cruising conditions in and around Cuba.

Your hosts, The Barr family has sailed to Cuba every winter for the past fifteen years and has gained a tremendous amount of knowledge about cruising and touring this fascinating Caribbean island. 

This year the United States' Dept. of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) introduced the "People to People" educational exchange general license which allows tour operators to take groups of American travellers to Cuba. In Havana this winter we were surprised by the numbers of Americans exploring the streets of Old Havana. With the easing of U.S. travel restrictions for tour groups, we are hopeful that there will be an easing of restrictions on U.S. boaters travelling to the island. Consequently, we are preparing to go to press with our first Cuba cruising guide. Look for Volume 1 of Yacht Pilot's "Cruising Guide to Western Cuba" at the close of 2012. This volume provides detailed cruising information for the western regions of the island—Varadero to Cienfuegos.

For general updates and insights, visit our 2012 Cuba Updates on the Cruising Notes page.

Please stay tuned as we develop this site with more Cuba cruising tips, stories, news and reports. We also encourage any readers, who have recently been to Cuba, to e-mail us links to their blogs or send in cruising information that they would like to share with other potential Cuba Cruisers.

Coming in 2012

Yacht Pilot's Guide to

Cruising Cuba: Volume 1

by Capt. Cheryl Barr

"Don't leave port without it"

The Canadian Maritimes

www.yachtpilot.ca