La Coloma, Cuba 3/5/1939
Waiting with longing for the money so be nice and send it as quick as possible.
Dear Marie and Valdemar, now we are out in the swamp again and we have landed in Cuba’s field where nothing is growing. Last time we passed Cuba it was with the Tradewinds on a broad beach and then it went fast but now we have it right in the nose and then it’s called slow work tacking piece by piece and it takes time so it probably will take a long time before we reach Jamaica and since we are at the bottom of the money box you better send 100 $ to Cuba. Send them to
Mr. C.W. Harss, P.O. Box 75 Havana, Cuba, but as soon as possible but address them directly to Mr. Harss since we are not in Havana anymore.
Otherwise the crew here on “Restmore” are in good spirits. Our nose shines in competition from a weathered sailing against the wind since the Mediterranean. We have really not even one time had a real head wind so we have forgotten what that means to tack although I must say that the waters here are good inside the reef. So, there is not much high sea but buoys and markers are below all standards. Instead of buoys just a branch stuck down in the water so of course we have been sitting on ground a couple of times. Now after our inland waterway sailings in America we have good equipment and good practice at getting lose again, so it was not too bad. How are things by you? Has it started to get a little warm in the air with the March sunshine at least on Marie’s veranda? Now at last many loving greetings from the family with many names namely Per, Lars, Muse, Peter and Else. Remember, Mr. Harss is not the consul in Havanna. Mr. Harss is a leader in a business from East Asiatic Co. office here on Cuba and he has done us a lot of favors while we were in Havana.