This morning, we wanted to leave comfortably at 0800. All preparations were running. However, suddenly the anchor alarm went off. A quick look and I first considered that the alarm went off because I did not get the anchor position well enough. As the wind was pretty strong I made the instant decision to get…

We wanted to see a few islands around us. However in the early morning hours, only Ste and I were up, a boat with 2 men came. They offered us molas. A mola is a piece of fabric about a size 40 – 60 cm with very colorful patterns. Some are hand stitched, some are…

Searching for an anchoring spot took a while because there were quite a few boats in the anchorage area. After my right circle to test the water depth I knew were to drop the hook. 5 m sand but with seagrass patches was the sea bottom. MaRe’s Rocna anchor digged in strongly. At 1500 RPM…

This morning, about 30 min later as planned, we left LBM for San Blas. ECMWF and GFS predicted no wind at all. I did not bother to download the other PWG and PWE and UKMO weather models. SPIRE is known as not good in coastal waters; I use SPIRE only when I’m eating off-shore. As…

In the morning at 0800 I finally started inbound clearance procedure. First customs clearance at the marina. It ended with a surprise. The officer asked me pretty quickly for my cruising permit for Panama and I showed it to the officer. Although the document states that it is valid until May 2023, he said it…

… in Linton Bay Marina! 267 NM in 50 h. One night with a bunch of squalls, the second one was quite. Unfortunately no sailing wind. But such is sailing. Either no wind or too much. Will be here for 2 – 3 days.

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…

It’s 2000 hrs. For most of the day i had the same situation as now. A very weak headwind of around 3 – 4 KN. Wind waves of less than 50 cm and almost no swell. But also no sailing wind. I worked around on the boat on several tasks needed to done and while…

Had and still have visitors. Still in the dark of the morning little birds came to MaRe. One was group of 3 swallows and then came two little birds. The swallows where shy and left after they were dry again. The other 2 birds are still around. Not shy at all. I can walk around…

I’m sleeping in 20 min intervals, which works fine for me. When the alarm woke me up at 0210 there was a 5 Bft wind from S and the genoa was on the wind side. First I changed course that the genoa was back to her set side, furled it, went back on course to…