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• Anyone have charts of Cuba?
  • LOL- JUST hung up the phone with a sailing friend REALLY excited
  • Seriously, does this mean travel ban will be lifted?
  • Being a prudent mariner.....
  • WOW!! Just saw the news......
  • One of my fellow boaters went aground on a sailboat cutting too close to Cuba.
  • Yeah,wonderful. Who cares democracy,about freedom, elections, political prisons? Principles are Sooo 20th century.
    • Ken, on the one hand I agree with you...on the other hand....
      • PEACE, dammit, not piece.....I'm so ashamed....
    • Holding the moral high ground with Cuba is a bit difficult given our behavior at Guantanamo
      • Oh?
        • Well one thing was lock-up and torture a 15 year old boy who's nut bar father took him to war.
    • It was better with our ally General Batista
      • and if your a women living in SC
        • We can't blame Ken for that.
      • You're probably correct, Doug -- if you meant that Batista would have been better than Castro turned-out to be.
        • My sarcastically tinged post was
    • We do trade and have "normal" relationships with a number of countries that aren't really democracies, are dictatorships
      • Cuba's big mistake . . .
        • ;^))) What will be selling them? Movies, videos, music, social media links, raw materials, and fast food?
          • It's an exciting event to watch, from either coast.
          • Coca-cola... we peddle it to the world...
        • Its going to work the other way
          • And NAPA. The Cubans can't wait for NAPA.
            • That too.
              • They have some treats we want, too.
            • There's a treasure trove there
          • Not until we ship factories and jobs there so the locals can buy that stuff . . .
    • The embargo is generational history, gone for most Cubans. All gone in the youngest the world around.
  • I'd avoid getting them, they may be outdated before you can use them...;^)