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Tall Ships Call into Cozumel Port

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Cozumel was lucky enough to host several Tall Ships in the last week.  The first ship to arrive was an important piece of US Coast Guard history last weekend when the Tall Ship “USCGC Eagle WIX-327″ called into port. The 78 year-old boat,  was originally launched by the German Navy in 1936 during WWII.  On Wednesday 5 other tall ships called into port only for one day.  The first to arrive was the ARM Cuauhtémoc, the Mexican Navy’s Tall Ship, which was built in Spain and launched in 1982.  The Venezuelan Navy’s Training Ship, the AB “Simon Bolivar” (BE-11) also returned to Cozumel, she is the sister ship to theARM Cuauhtémoc.   The Esmeralda (BE-43), the 61-year old Chilean ship was next to arrive.  This is her second visit to Cozumel in less than a year.   The youngest tall ship to arrive was the Brazilian Navy’s Cisne Branco, which is only 15 years old.  Also on hand was the Argentinian ARA Libertad (Q-2) which is one of the largest and fastest tall ships in the world and the holder of several speed records.

Many of theTall Ships are en route to a Tall Ship Regatta which will be held in Vera Cruz later this summer.

 

This story originally appeared in the weekly Cozumel 4 You NEWS – the island’s number one source of positive information about our island!  Be sure and subscribe to the weekly NEWS to find out all the island events!…

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An ex-Connecticut Yankee who has called Cozumel home for over 18 years, Laura ran away to the Caribbean years ago, bumped around the islands teaching SCUBA diving, lost some time in Jamaica, and finally stopped in Cozumel for a 2 week vacation that hasn’t ended yet. With a degree in Journalism from a fancy private college she convinced her parents to pay for, Laura writes, edits, and creates the weekly Cozumel 4 You news, social media, and promotional articles about the island, as well as moderates the Cozumel 4 You Facebook group, which currently has over 25,000 members. Her long suffering husband, Fabian, has long since resigned himself to having zero private life, as he’s been involved in her various schemes and plots since his arrival. Proud parents to a variety of rescue dogs and cats, Laura continues to be the bane of her traditional Mexican mother-in-law’s existence, as she muses her way through life in the Mexican Caribbean. ______________________________ Una ex yanqui de Connecticut quien llama hogar a Cozumel desde hace más de 15 años. Laura escapó al Caribe hace años, desplazándose de una isla a otra dando clases de BUCEO. Se dedicó a perder el tiempo en Jamaica y finalmente se detuvo en Cozumel para pasar unas vacaciones de 2 semanas que aún no terminan. Convenciendo a sus padres que pagaran una elegante universidad privada, obtuvo su título en Periodismo y Laura crea semanalmente Cozumel 4You, medios sociales y artículos promocionales sobre la Isla y también es moderadora en el grupo Cozumel 4 You en Facebook que actualmente cuenta con 25,000 miembros. Fabián, s umuy tolerante marido, desde hace mucho tiempo se resignó a no tener vida privada, pues se ha visto implicado en los diversos proyectos y planes que urde Laura. Son orgullosos padres de diversos perros y gatos rescatados. Mientras contempla su paso a través de la vida en el Caribe mexicano, Laura continúa siendo la pesadilla en la existencia de su muy tradicional suegra mexicana.

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