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[…]

Ross 18 March 2010 | Panama City On Wednesday, we woke up and cleaned from the going away party that we had the night before with some of our buddies in the anchorage and a group of Panamanians that we met. It’s incredible how fast the boat can go from super clean and organized to[…]

Ross 18 March 2010 | Panama City Around 6pm, Alex and Panu decided to get some sleep to prepare for the night watches, so I grabbed a book and threw on the autopilot as the sun went down. I decided to see if I could catch us some supper and threw out a little imitation[…]

Ross 19 March 2010 | Pacific Ocean Strong winds from the north allowed us to cover a lot of water today 125 nautical miles. We’re just under a third of the way there. Right before the sun went down, we sailed right by what looked like a golf hole flag with a little tracking device[…]