We made it through the Panama Canal just fine. We rafted up with a catamaran of similar length and all just went smooth. So Sunday around 15:00 we dropped anchor with the impressive skyline of Panama City in the background. Away from the frequent rainfalls at last.



We will spend a few days here, loading 250 liters of diesel to top up our 550 liter tank and doing some laundry. We should be heading for Ecuador around Thursday I think. That is a 550Nm trip with light winds normally on the nose, so should take us around 5 days. The northern part of Equador, close to the border with Columbia (Esmaraldas) is notorious for bad company reportedly, so we will take a little detour into the Pacific to keep at least 100Nm between us and land there. However you do not want to get to far into the Pacific or you will run into head currents, left overs of the Peru (Humbold) current.



Even Auke enjoyed it, however after the first locks (there are three sets of locks) he did say "he had seen it all". Anyway the run on the Lago the Gatun and the Galliard Cut he enjoyed.



All well with boat and crew.