Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
San Blas: Porvenir
We hadn’t even set our anchor before the “mola assault team” was on our case. Quite amazing, four women in an ulu (a dugout canoe) paddle out to greet you with their wares, and what beautiful wares indeed. The Kuna rely on the sale of molas to buy basic provisions for the villages on these [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Isla Grande to Porvenir
The seasons are transitioning from rainy to dry; finally the trade winds are beginning to penetrate through to Panama. This morning we awoke to 20 to 25 knots. We were feeling all ‘pirates of the Caribbean’ as we headed out to sea, exited to get those sails up again. We’re not just a low rent [...]
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Colon to San Blas
Portobello We made a short hop from Colon to Portobello, which is a quaint colonial town tucked amongst jungle-covered hills. There are two forts here used by the Spaniards to ship out Peruvian and Central American gold to Spain. Between 1574 and 1702 as many as 45 fleets of galleons full of melted gold and [...]
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Jungle Sounds
The world has not collapsed and it appears as though the evil hedge fund managers have been reigned in for the time being–at least for this week. We’ve been here longer than expected, but it was difficult to tear ourselves away from the events unfolding, so once again, we find ourselves the reluctant marina urchins. [...]
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Engine Stuff
This is a controversial blog, but I thought I’d throw that out the window, and be honest and tell you what being on a boat is all about. Nothing is easy here. We’ve spent the last couple of days trying to track down a 12 point socket so that we could remove the square drain [...]
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Provisioning…again
The stores are modern, and well stocked in Colon. The only problem is that you can’t actually walk there or anywhere in Colon on your own. For one thing, the marina that we’re docked at is in an isolated spot, just west of the canal entrance. It’s on a former US army base (Fort Sherman) [...]