Articles about 'Panama'

After our Panama Canal Transit, we anchored off Panama City for a few days to do some last minute provisioning for fresh fruits and vegetables. We’d also been waiting for a good place to update our fishing gear and luckily found everything we needed to allow us to catch fish all the way across the Pacific.

"In 1513, the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean. From that point forward, the Spanish and then the Dutch, French, British, and Americans would seek to create a path between the seas that would shorten the trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific without traveling around Cape Horn. It would take nearly four centuries to...

This is the day we begin our transit of the Panama Canal from Colon to Panama City. We'll pass thru the Gatun Locks later this afternoon and anchor in Gatun Lake for the night. Tomorrow morning, we take on our pilot/adviser and begin the transit the rest of the way across Panama. It should take us about 10-12 hours as not only do we have about 45 nm to go but we also have to pass...

When you’re a sailor, you have lots of dreams. Crossing the oceans of the world is probably at the top as we all want to sail around the world. However, to transit the Panama Canal is right up there too and we are about to do it!

We spent a good number of days exploring the islands of the San Blas archipelago and enjoying our time with the Kuna Indians, swimming the clear waters and walking on the beautiful white beaches. This is a very special place for spend time. Next was a short passage to the bay of Portobelo for a few nights before ending up in the Shelter Bay Marina in Colon.

Mare con onda grande e vento sostenuto. Da Santa Marta solo due giornate di navigazione ma è stato faticoso comunque arrivare! Fortunatamente la bellezza delle San Blas e sopratutto l'euforia dell'esploraziome ci fa dimenticare la stanchezza! Sembrava di non arrivare mai: "abbiamo sbagliato rotta!!??? :-))", ma a poche miglia da Porvenir abbiamo cominciato a vedere ciuffi di palme da...

We've been to a few islands now in the San Blas archipelago and each one is unique. Cayo Holandes stands out as a special one however as there are multiple bays to anchor in and we've spent a number of days here checking out the swimming and snorkeling.

The last day of our passage from Columbia was an exhausting, seemingly never ending trudge for everyone, yet already it feels like a long time ago. The following day we awoke in a tropical paradise, surrounded by a festive party of impossibly pretty islands, each dressed in a petticoat of pure white sand, crowned with coco-palms and all dancing on a sea of turquoise. These are the...