06/17/2012, Escabudo de Veraguas - West point
Happy fathers day to all dads reading the blog. and a special fathers day wish to my Dad, Step dad (thats you Stan), two brothers and brother in law. May today be special for all of you. for me I get to spend the afternoon cleaning the bottom of the boat. we are anchored in a great little bay and the weather could not be better for swimming so I will take the opportunity to clean. we also walked the beach , met a great family that lives on this island and smorkled the reef for a few hours. tomorrow we sail abourt 30 miles to the next anchorage. I'm looking forward to a nice short day sail.
life is good on Kokomo
Denny
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06/16/2012, Escabudo de Veraguas - West point
I try not to complain about bad sailing days but the past 30 hours included a 24 hour period where we only covered 91 miles. AWt times we had a 3 knot current against us and the motor was on most of the time. We were faced with light winds and lightning and had a hard time making any headway. We are now anchored in a nice bay that is open to the ocean. I hope the winds don't start blowing tonight. We are anchored right next to S/V Rocinante. Larry and Vicky are from Seattle and we have been spending time with them the past week or so.
Life is good on Kokomo
Denny
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06/15/2012, Portobelo
This is Fort San Fernando. Below is a short video.
We are off this morning for Bocas del Toro. It should take 24 hours to get there.
Becky
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06/14/2012, San Blas
This is a short video of our latest charter.
Becky
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06/13/2012, Portobelo
We left Friday morning from Portobelo to go to Panama City. This trip was on two busses. The first one was a chicken bus to Colon that took 2 hours and cost $1.60 each. The second bus was a nice bus with AC & TV. This was to Panama City it took 2 hours and cost $3.15 each. To get from the first bus to the second we were advised to take a taxi. the taxi ride was 150 yards and cost $2.00 . once we arrived in Panama we took a taxi to S/V Rocinante and were reunited with Larry and Vicky , new friends we had met last year in Mexico and their crew member Joe. We had met Joe in El Salvador when he was crewing on a different boat. since leaving Tacoma 2 years ago we have met several people then parted ways only to be reunited months later. Early the next morning we met our canal adviser "Ricky". He was knowledgeable, friendly and was very pleasant. We rafted to a 67' fishing boat and went threw the first 3 locks center tied. After motoring across lake Gatun we were given permission to lock down on the same day. Earlier we were told we would have to spend the night on the lake. We centered tied alone going down. No problems for Rocinante as everything very smoothly. We arrived in Shelter Bay later that evening. The only hiccup was the next day, Rocinante started to take on water. The bilge was complete full and coming up the floor boards. It took 5 plus hours to figure out the bilge pump was leaking into the boat. Larry ordered a new one, installed it, and 5 days later, all was good. We left Shelter Bay at 5:30 am this morning and arrived late morning to Portobelo. Kokomo was just fine without us.
Life was good on Rocinate!
Denny and Becky
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06/11/2012, Portobello
One of our outings in Western Coco Banderos was to get close to a ship that hit a reef and sunk. The closer we got I was amazed at how large this ship was. Parts of the ship were all around the ship. We tried to figure out what each part was. We think to the left of the ship was the rudder.
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