Puerto Rico, day 3 - sailing
An amazing day trip sail on a catamaran in Virgin Islands sparked my interest in saling a few years ago so since we were going back to the Caribbean, I decided to introduce the other folks in our group to it. I spent a great deal of time trying to find a smaller catamaran just for our group, but in the end booked us on the Spread Eagle II cat since I could not find anything smaller. Once again, we had to get up early and make our way back to the east side town of Fajardo to board the cat. The party started with some pina coladas while we were still waiting to board (before 10am).
Once on board, we motored out of the marina and set sails for a nearby island where we ended up spending the whole day. We anchored at the beach there and were directed to a snorkeling spot at the end of the beach. The only problem was that there were four other catamarans with 30-40 people each “parked” at the beach as well, so it was a very crowded snorkeling spot - I definitely saw more people than fish in there. Soon I got tired of getting bumped into left and right and went back to the boat where they were ready with some lunch.
After lunch we sailed around the island to another snorkeling spot. It was deeper waters and much more coral build up providing for some nice snorkeling up until the other boats arived and we had a zoo of people in there again. We hung out on the boat, doing some diving off the sides and just swimming around for a little bit before setting sails back to the marina.
While it did not compare to my Virgin Islands sailing experience and did not really live up to my expectations, the rest of the group seemed to love it and some people have asked me about sailing instruction. I am hoping that we can work out something next year to go down somewhere in Caribbean and get certified for bareboat charter. This way we can get a boat all to ourselves and go sailing and scuba diving anywhere we want 
The rest of my Puerto Rico posts:
- Puerto Rico, day 1 - getting there
- Puerto Rico, day 2 - scuba diving
- Puerto Rico, day 4 - the jungles
- Puerto Rico, day 4 cont - old San Juan
- Puerto Rico, day 5 - Arecibo telescope, Project 727, and kayaking in a bioluminescent bay
- Puerto Rico, day 6 - Ziplining
- Puerto Rico, day 8 - Flameno beach on Culebra
- Puerto Rico, day 9 - Bacardi tour
- Puerto Rico sights and signs