Hazard spot
Windward Passage and Haiti: Piracy
Windward Passage and Haiti: The passage is known for attacks on anchored and slow-moving boats. A stop along this coast is not part of the plan.
- Cause
- Piracy
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 19° 48,0' N 074° 00,0' W
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Windward Passage and Haiti: how the place works
The passage between Cuba and Haiti is the shortest link between the Bahamas and the Caribbean and is therefore needed. But it lies off a coast with weak state control, and the trade wind accelerates here with a high, short sea against an eastward course.
Windward Passage and Haiti: what breaks there
Two things at once: weather damage while beating east, and an elevated risk of attack close inshore and at anchor. Most crews therefore run the passage through without stopping ashore.
Windward Passage and Haiti: what this means for your policy
Piracy is excluded, weather damage is not. Settle beforehand where your cruising range ends, and do not assume that cover including Cuba also means the Haitian side.
Read this in full: This is where almost all cover endsCruising range
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And what applies right now?
This page shows what always holds here; live official warnings are on the warning map.
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