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Culebra and Vieques: Spanish Virgin Islands anchorages

Two Puerto Rican islands, 19 miles from Fajardo and 21 from St. Thomas. On Culebra, Ensenada Honda gives shelter from everything: free moorings at Dakity behind the reef, good holding in sand off Dewey. Flamenco and Tamarindo to the west, Carlos Rosario and Luis Peña inside the Canal Luis Peña reserve, where fishing is banned and anchors go on sand only, and Culebrita with its day moorings, open to the northerly swell. On Vieques, Ensenada Honda is a hurricane hole, Sun Bay holds well on its east side, and Esperanza carries less water than charted. On the south-east coast, stay on the beaches: unexploded ordnance remains inland.

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HarbourCulebra, Puerto Rico
Public marina
4.7
Public berthing in Dewey, the only town on Culebra, on the narrow isthmus between Bahía de Sardinas and Ensenada Honda.
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Ensenada Dakity
3.9
Mooring field just inside the reef at the entrance to Ensenada Honda, on the south coast of Culebra, 1.5 NM from Dewey.
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Bahia de Sardinas
4.7
Bay on the west side of Dewey, Culebra, where the ferries from the main island berth, 0.2 NM from the town centre.
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Bahia Flamenco
4.7
Anchorage off Flamenco beach, on the north coast of Culebra, 1.9 NM from Dewey by sea.
- Water
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Tamarindo
3.5
Anchorage off Playa Tamarindo on the west coast of Culebra, facing Cayo Luis Peña, 1.4 NM north-west of Dewey.
- Buoys
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Carlos Rosario
4.2
Mooring field off Playa Carlos Rosario, on the north-west coast of Culebra, 2.1 NM from Dewey and 0.9 NM west of Flamenco.
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Cayo Luis Pena
4.9
Anchorage on the west side of Cayo Luis Peña, the cay off the west coast of Culebra, 2.1 NM from Dewey.
- Buoys
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Bahia Tortuga
4.8
Bay on the north side of Culebrita, the cay off the east coast of Culebra, 4.2 NM from Dewey.
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Bahía de Almodóvar
4.3
Reef-enclosed lagoon on the east coast of Culebra, facing Culebrita, 2.7 NM from Dewey.
- Buoys
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Punta Soldado
4.5
Anchorage at Punta Soldado, the southern tip of Culebra, 1.6 NM south-east of Dewey.
- Buoys
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Bahia Salina del Sur
4.7
Bay on the south coast of the eastern tip of Vieques, 9.7 NM east of Esperanza, inside the former US Navy bombing range.
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Ensenada Honda
4.9
Large bay on the south-east coast of Vieques, 7.3 NM east of Esperanza, inside the eastern part of the Vieques National Wildlife Refuge.
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Sun Bay
3.9
Anchorage off Sun Bay, the public beach park 0.6 NM east of Esperanza on the south coast of Vieques.
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Esperanza
2.7
Anchorage off Esperanza, the village on the south coast of Vieques, where most cruising yachts visiting the island lie.
- Buoys
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AnchoragePuerto Rico
Punta Arenas
3.9
Anchorage off Punta Arenas, known as Green Beach, at the western tip of Vieques, 6.2 NM west of Esperanza, inside the Vieques National Wildlife Refuge.