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We are almost ready to depart Panama. We are securing the boat, making water, cooking etc. in preparation. We spent the day in the old part of Panama City, here are some pics… This is not actually in the old city…Tanya is in between the N and A: Church by the square in the city … Continue reading »

We are all fendered up and ready to go, departing 1pm tomorrow (Thursday). As soon as our advisor arrives we will go through the Gatun Lock and tie up in the lake for the night, finishing the transit on Friday. You can view the cameras on http://www.pancanal.com/eng/index.html Click the multimedia tab. Right now only the … Continue reading »

We have our date! We will transit the Panama Canal on the 21-22 March, next week! Here is a quick video of us catching the monkey fist from the canal hand liner:

The Panama Canal Authority Admeasurer just finished inspecting our boat! We passed the inspection and we were issued our ship identification number, which is good forever. Now we’re just waiting on a transit date!

We made it to Turks and Caicos! As mentioned in our last post, we anchored at Highbourne Cay in the Exuma Island chain. From Highbourne we spent a night at Norman’s Cay, which is exploding with development, then down near Farmer’s Cay to wait on a weather window to transit the Bahamas to TCI. Very … Continue reading »