Pacific Crossing 2010-11
 

February Pictures

 

 

 

 

 

Wing and Wing from Portobello to Colon and the Canal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The breakwater leading to the Canal staging area

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This guy and many others were coming and going through the same entrance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's Amy's AIS view.......all the green triangles are Big ships like the one above. We're the red icon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amy  let him enter first

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shelter Bay Marina. Boats from all over the world. Many like us were doing all the logistics to get approvals to
go through the canal to the Pacific

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We passed our inspections, paid our money, and got our ticket. Now waiting for a date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Jim, Hilda, and Gabriela

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All kinds of boats

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in all kinds of price ranges

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

doing different kinds of things

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With different qualities of fit and finish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Budgets big

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and small

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shango successfully negotiated her transit date for Feb 9 and we then dove into our project list

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amy's first completed project, recovering the sunbrella cushions
with Naugahyde for salty passages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We met Reality from San Francisco last winter in Grenada. They are also heading across the
Pacific and putting on a fresh coat of bottom paint. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's February 9th and we're headed for our date with the Canal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Up we go, rafted with Elbe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elbe's forward line handlers in the first Gatun Lock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One down five to go

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Elbe's aft crew

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rudolfo and Homero, our forward line handlers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Canal sights

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fernando, our aft line handler.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodbye Atlantic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day one ends in Gatun Lake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elbe begins day two with Shango not far behind

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rudolfo takes the helm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Large company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hamming it up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take cover!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the Pacific

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Panama City

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ivan, our Transit Adviser getting ready to depart. Over 1000 transits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Crew celebrates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Done in time for sunset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our anchorage and the Panama City skyline

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quicksilver departs for Las Perlas and beyond

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time to provision. Our wonderful taxi driver/guide, Juan,  took us to the huge veggie/fruit market, Habistos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amy was in her element

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making sure she got everything on her list

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My beer provisioning was easier. 5 months X 2 beers a day = 14 cases
$10 per case made it even easier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Juan took us sightseeing one day as well. Balboa Yacht Club and the Pacific entrance to the canal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The camera is plumb the new bank building is not

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The unusual topped building is Donald Trump's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The old city. Very much like Cartagena

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many historic churches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grand old residential architecture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ultra modern Frank Gehry museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We came to really enjoy Panama and its friendly people

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and its wide variety of things boating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provisioning complete. We sailed to the Las Perlas islands for some R&R before heading for
the Galapagos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a beautiful anchorage with no boats or houses visible in any direction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18 foot tides reminded us of Maine in the tropics. An episode of  The Survivor series was filmed here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful empty beaches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amy beachcombed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and I worked on other important issues

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everyday a little more planning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Las Perlas was so rich with birds and fish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Probably a bit like the Galapagos to come

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heading south in the Las Perlas we caught up with Pyewacket at Espiritu Santo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A tri using the tide to clean his bottom

 

 

 

 

 

 


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