Banana Log: From Dream to Disaster, Sailing through the Caribbean

It should be a leisurely cruise along palm-tree framed blue bays with snorkeling in colorful tropical reefs. But the reality of navigating among shoals and rocks, beating against powerful head winds, dealing with bureaucracies of island officials, and having repairs done by incompetent mechanics is different. The three parts of the Banana Log paint a colorful variety of small Banana Republics from the Bahamas to Grenada, with as many cultures as there are islands. At first, weather delays a...