Yesterday morning I noticed a Columbian warship anchored in the 'big boat' anchorage outside the reef at Providencia. I thought nothing of it as I know that the warships move soldiers between San Andres, Providencia and the multiple small islands/reefs where they have outposts. Around 0800 I called Mr. Bush and he told me to come right in with our passports and he would get us cleared out. I jumped in the dinghy and went in while the rest lingered over breakfast. Mr. Bush had the officer from Migracion already there to take our passports and he typed out our crew list and zarpe to take to the port captain. I casually mentioned that the freighter had been on the dock a long time. I thought they usually unloaded in a day or so and were gone. "Yes, big problem," Mr. Bush said. It seems they found 50kg of coke on board. THAT explained the warship. I stopped at the pandaria and bought some sweet rolls for a second breakfast for everyone. Around 1030 we came back into to finish provisioning and pick up our papers. All was in order. By 1200 we had anchor and sails up and were on our way. I kept the engine running until we cleared the sea buoy. Then we came up to our course of 014 and sailed nicely, averaging 7-8 kts. Seas were nearly flat. "Gee," Sandy said, "Maybe we should just head off to the Hobbies today and save some time." We certainly had the wind angle. Everyone agreed and we fell off to 357 and gained some speed. I got to thinking and the way this wind has been, I hated to give up the East we had on the forecast that the wind would shift SE. I checked my charts and - sure enough - with this wind we could lay Grand Cayman directly. We tightened back up to 006 and still maintained 7-8 kts. very comfortably. I set a "Decision" waypoint by which time we had to decide that we could, indeed, make Grand Cayman or we would need to fall off and head for Hobbies. But that waypoint was 12 hours ahead so for then we just sailed. Over night, the wind built a bit and I tucked in 1 reef. Not surprisingly, our speed didn't drop at all, but our COG improved by 004! We were making much less leeway with the reduced sail. The wind has been back and forth a bit, sometimes forcing us down as low as 355, but right now we are on course for Grand Cayman, 32 hrs. out. I hope it holds. I hate sailing with a deadline and the closing on our house in NH is certainly one. But as Sandy pointed out, we can always fly to Cuba another time and so we are going to enjoy the trip and the cruising along the Cuban coast. Of course, we will get to Havana and Santiago, but if we have to cut something short, it will be the land travel as we can do that again later. It's a beautiful day and I'm happy.