I’m already up since the early morning hours, enjoyed a magnificent sunrise, and worked on various tasks on the boat.

One of them was to find an anchorage along the way to LBM where I could drop the hook for a night. This because i don’t want arrive in the dark at the marina.

In order to make it in time, I even unfurled the genoa at 2 Bft winds; something I normally don’t do. I gained a little bit of speed. However, it was not possible to compensate the current I had and have against me. The peak current was 2.5 KN and now I still have 1.8 KN. Currently the Axiom plotter shows an ETA at the marina of 1700. That is very good. It’s about 45 min before sunset. Now I hope I can maintain this ETA.

The cloudy sky is replaced for 7/8 by a nice light blue. At the horizon around MaRe there are plenty of cumulus clouds but also some nimbus clouds are hanging under the cumuli. Looking over to the San Blas Islands, it seems there are several local rain showers pouring down. At least I hope it’s rain down and not smoke up. Here in Panama, they also burn rainforest to gain grazing ground for cattles. The ones I saw while passing in a car, where pretty big but almost no cattles. Most of them even empty. The ones with a few cattles provide a soccer fields area for 1 cattle!

The sea is gently. Almost no wind waves, and a smooth swell rolls to MaRe’s sterns from a quarterly directions at STB. Looking at the blue of the swell is just relaxing. I shouldn’t do anything except watching this blue swell rolling towards MaRe.

Looking back to the nights with sleeping units of 20 min, it was sometimes though to get up immediately when the alarm rings. But it is also not that bad. The big danger I saw was in my head. When I start thinking the alarm is music to keep on dreaming of will become dangerous because i don’t get up. In my memory there were such moments. I can’t say if these moments were really there or if was just afraid of them. Therefore, I’m using 2 alarms with different sounds. This difference should destroy dreaming of a nice melody.

The next question is now for now many days can I stay that sleeping pattern?