SV Panta Rhei Retirement Trip

Vessel Name: Panta Rhei
Vessel Make/Model: Able Apogee 50
Hailing Port: Seattle
Crew: Larry and Karen
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18 September 2017 | Seattle
23 August 2017 | Prince Rupert
15 August 2017 | Anan Bear Observatory
19 July 2017 | Petersburg, AK
17 June 2017 | Hoonah, AK
03 June 2017 | Seward AK
03 June 2017 | Denali
25 April 2017 | Seward AK
23 March 2017 | Seward, AK
11 March 2017 | Seward, AK
23 January 2017 | Seward AK
06 December 2016 | Seward AK
12 November 2016 | Seward Alaska
14 October 2016 | Valdez, AK
21 September 2016
05 August 2016 | Seward, AK
26 July 2016 | Whittier, AK
19 July 2016 | Valdez, Alaska
05 July 2016 | Seward, Alaska
Recent Blog Posts
18 September 2017 | Seattle

We are back in Seattle

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?

Sea snakes frequent this anchorage

03 March 2012 | Ensenada de Rosario, Panama
Larry Nelson
Oh, great. The guidebook says there are sea snakes here. Why did we come here? Karen? Anybody?

In fact we came to make the trip an easy day trip, breaking up the journey to Isla de Cebaco into two easy days instead of one long day. And in the process we will spend a night along the mainland of Panama, instead of just at islands. This is a pretty place. It's like the San Juan Islands...sort of. The water is clear. The hillsides are green and steep. There are lots of anchorages. Of course there are very few cruising boats. We've seen a few fishing pangas,...none today. Our anchorage is everything you would want it to be and so far I haven't seen any of those sea snakes.

Anyway, I'm thinking that this post will mark an important advance to the south where Panama City is waiting for us. Check out the map at the bottom of the Blog page. There is a large pennisula just south of here called Punta Mala. That's spanish for lots of wind! I'd like to get a GRIB file update (a wind matrix) while I'm here but recently the ssb propagation has not supported the necessary data rate. I have a 4 day old forecast that is getting less reliable by the day.

I'll try it. Hope springs eternal

I couldn't resist posting another picture of the dolphins in the clear water.
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