SV Panta Rhei Retirement Trip

It feels like home. Of course we are not in Silshole. Maybe we will be, someday, but there is a list and we are on it. In the meantime we are at Bainbridge Island Marina.

23 August 2017 | Prince Rupert

The dinghy holds air again

It wasn't very nice of the bear to tear the fabric across a seam. We were worried that we couldn't patch it but tried anyway. The glue had a job to do and it did it!

15 August 2017 | Anan Bear Observatory

A Grizzly Bear damaged our dinghy

We were visiting the Anan Bear Observatory south of Wrangell. It is one of the best places to visit in all of SE Alaska BECAUSE it has bears. But (as we learned) there is a dark side to this bear concentration. And of course, there is a story to tell.

19 July 2017 | Petersburg, AK

Moving On

"No matter where you go, there you are" (unknown reference). By now we have been there and done that. Most recently that included Cannery Cove on Admiralty Island. The photo shows the quiet grandeur of the setting with Ron and Suzie's boat SV Tango in the foreground. It has been like that for the last [...]

17 June 2017 | Hoonah, AK

We are in Hoonah, SE Alaska now

We got something resembling a high pressure ridge so we moved expeditously across the Gulf of Alaska. The crossing took three days and weather stayed as forecast. That was a very good thing. The weather changes in the far north far more rapidly and dramatically than we ever experienced in the more southern [...]

03 June 2017 | Seward AK

Crossing the Gulf of Alaska

We are still in Seward, AK. Now that spring has come, why not start south?

Coming to the BIG city tomorrow

04 March 2012 | at anchor Isla Octoque, Panama

Larry Nelson

We've motored and sailed in good weather conditions for two days and all night and have come to a tiny set of islands about 24 nm off Panama City. We arrived just before dark so we've anchored. It's a tall island and its a good thing. The last 3 hours of our trip it blew 30 knots on the nose. Those were the winds that we ran all night to escape (so we wouldn't get them near Punta Mala). The winds are still blowing but the anchorage is protected from the direction that the wind is blowing. If the anchor mud has good holding, we're golden. The worst of the winds are blowing over us. It sounds bad, but the boat seems safe. The wind will continue all night according to our GRIB files and then let up in the morning just in time for us to get to our Panama City Anchorage.

We're looking forward to having broadband internet. We'll set up our trip to the Marquesas; meet our son John's friends Kristi and Merril Heck; clear into the country; order a few parts (remember the failed relay for the windlass?), and enjoy what Panama city has to offer. We're hoping to get a ride through the canal if we can arrange it. We're also hopelessly behind on the news. The amazing thing is that every time we catch up on the news we find that there wasn't really any news we had missed. That is a good thing, I suppose.

The picture is the bow of a boat we are sailing past enroute to our Panama City yacht anchorage.

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