Ross Gerber 20 February 2010 | MPLS, Miami, P City Hassan was right on schedule and got me to the airport on time. I had him right a letter in Somali that stated the people on the vessel were friends of Somalia and had many somali friends in Minneapolis. I’m not naive enough to think[…]

Ross 23 February 2010 | Kuna Yala, Panama I arrived at the Albrook Airport in panama city bright and early at 5am. Albrook airport serves the domestic airports in panama and most of the early flights are to the islands of Kuna Yala…one of which I was flying to. I was literally 2 feet taller[…]

Ross 28 February 2010 | Panama On Wednesday afternoon, we pulled out of Shelter Bay Marina at the north end of the Panama Canal. We were nearly had to leave without two crew members that went into Colon to provision and got stuck crossing the canal in a taxi when a semi that was two[…]

Ross 01 March 2010 | Panama City Every morning at around 8, all cruising boats turn on their radio to channel 74 for the daily ‘Cruisers Net’. Nearly every boat has on a VHF radio onboard that allows communication with other radios within like 25 miles (most marinas and gas stations have radios as well).[…]

Ross 13 March 2010 | Taboga, Panama I decided to take a quick trip to a nearby island while we were having friends over to fix the engine and auto helm. I sailed with some new friends, Alex from the boat Reflections and Flo and Nina from Flina, over to Taboga and we did some[…]

Ross 16 March 2010 | Panama City For the past 2 weeks, we’ve been working to prepare the boat to cross the pacific in Panama City, so I haven’t had a lot of time to update the blog or really anything super exciting to write about. This is the last major stop that many cruisers[…]

Ross 17 March 2010 | Panama City Since panama city is the last good port for provisioning until Tahiti or further, we had to buy all of our food for the next 3 months. It’s not easy to try to estimate how much of different types of things to buy. I did my best to[…]