JP checks the damages: all lights, radars and antennas blown!or The Big Surge ProtectorsSeptember 8, 2012Portobelo (Panama) Already three months since a direct lightning strike in the San Blas Islands devastated our electronic suite, and the c…
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Shipping to Panama
Weight and volume are a considerationSeptember 3, 2012Portobelo, PanamaSo, you’re stuck in Panama with some boat problem and need to import parts from the USA to get you back underway. How do you do it? It depends on the amount of st…
September 1, 2010 Deltaville, VA
When we last updated the blog, we were in Solomon’s Island, tied up to our slip at Spring Cove Marina. We really enjoyed our time there and we did some interesting things. Our first excursion involved renting a car and driving to Alex…
Floating Doctors
The floating Docs Panga arrives at the villageFloating Doctors August 23, 2012Portobelo, PanamaOnce in a great while, an extraordinary human being comes along and changes lives. I grew up with tales of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Late…
Help in Baja
August 11, 2012Portobelo, PanamaPunta Cono (courstey Baja Nomad)HELP is needed to rescue a family and their sailboat, beached in Baja….We may be thousands of miles away but the cruising community is a vast network. This call for help came acros…
PIRACY
August 8, 2012Portobelo, PANAMAPiracy is alive and well in the Caribbean. On August 30th, Capt. Cliff Vaughs lost his ship The Amistad to a crew of well-organized pirates. I am posting here his report to the American Embassy.Portobelo Bay: …
7/30/12 – Solomons, MD
As planned, we rented a car and went home to Topsail Beach on July 3, leaving the boat at Olverson’s Marina just off the Potomac River. Our trip home involved a wedding celebration, visits with family, and many hours on the water pulling skiers and of…
Security: Bocas Attack
July 8, 2012 – Portobelo (Panama)Violent attacks on boats… you think it’s not really going to happen, not to anyone you know, and certainly not to you. And then, one morning, you hear the report on the VHF or the SSB… as we did this morni…
Strike One
Portobelo July 5, 2012 Portobelo (Panama)Why have I been so silent for so long? For one, we don’t have Internet on board (at least, not until tomorrow when we’re getting a long-awaited Digicel MiFi hotspot router) and t…
June 23, 2012 Update Washington DC
It has been at least three weeks since the last trip update (not counting the MLK tribute), so here it is. We last posted upon leaving Colonial Beach VA. We travelled up the Potomac to Aquia Creek where we spent a night tied to the dock of …
