When we sailed into Port-Au-Prince, we found that the heads of the buoys in the harbor had been removed, making them a serious hazard to navigation even with highly accurate charts. On the pier, the crowd was in a highly agitated state, with some people starting fires out of old tires or whatever else was handy. Also, some uncouth person urinated on our mooring lines. Of course, the fact that I was on a Coast Guard ship about two weeks before the 1994 invasion might have had something to do with all this. Still, even taking all that into consideration, it's not a trip I'm likely to make again.
