El Zarpe

Zarpe is an extremely common Spanish word that you will encounter out cruising, but oddly enough, you won’t find the word zarpe in any standard Spanish dictionary, not even that of the Real Academia Española.

el zarpe

sahr-peh

(the exit clearance)

A zarpe is an exit clearance, the document that clears your boat out of port.

The boat [...]

Semana Santa

 Semana Santa (Holy Week, the week before Easter) is a big deal in many Spanish-speaking countries. When I was in Nicaragua years ago, we had two weeks of vacation at Easter since everything shut down for both Semana Santa and Semana de Pascua (Easter week, the following week).

Of course, as a cruiser or traveler, this [...]