Montevideo, Uruguay - sailing in

On the way into port, I was interested to see that there appears to be a ship graveyard. I asked our guide about it later and he said that often it is easier and cheaper to buy a new boat than to maintain an old one and that people had often just abandoned their old boats in the middle of the bay. The government is making an effort to remove them and clean up the area but it is apparently slow going.Read more