In the late afternoon of the day we visited the Green Acres Chocolate Farm, we took the tender and followed the shore line to reach a village around the corner of a mangrove covered shore. We saw the village but the wooden piers looked so much attached to a private house that we did not…

We wanted to leave early in the morning. But, there is already as “but”. In our case the”but” was the weather. It rained pretty heavily and we need sunshine for this day’s route to see when the color of the water is changing with the depth. Thus we had breakfast and watched the rain, hoping…

The day before, in the afternoon, we decided to clean the cockpit thoroughly early next morning while the temperature is still comfortable. The result was great! After shower and breakfast we lifted the hook for departure. Gary, who saw us leaving yelled a “Bon voyage” over to us. Very nice of him. We waved a…

From SV Amekaya, I got the name and phone number of Gary, the owner of this farm, and I called him in the morning for an appointment for the eco-tour he offers. We took the tender and arrived at 1200. James, an American volunteer, welcomed us together with a local young man, Oazis.(I’m not sure…

We took the tender and went into the small canal we saw the day before. The water was pretty shallow and i needed to tilt the motor. To be even slower to see more, we used again the oars and paddled slowly along the canal. At ours end we came to an village with plenty…

The morning in Big Bight was as peaceful as the evening before. Plenty of work to be done. Bread was needed and some IT work for FMB. When the dough was resting for the first time, w had breakfast. A local guy with a dugout canoe came by and offered us coconuts and fishes. We…

Yesterday, after doing the last provisioning, we lifted the hook and motored the short distance into the Big Bight on the west side of Isla Colon. Tob, my new member and the son of an old friend of mine got his first experience in steering MaRe by compass until we reached The mouth of Big…

Since our arrival here in the Bocas del Toro and the inbound clearance at the Port Captain’s office in Bocas town, many things happened and I also wanted to relax as well. When we were approaching Bocas town I called the Port Captain on the official VHF channel for advice where to dock. We got…

220516 Shortly after 1300 we lifted the anchor and left bay towards Bocas del Toro. Wind from ENE with 4 Bft in the upper range. Main sail with reef 2 and the genoa fully out. MaRe accelerated quickly to 8 – 9 on. For quite a while we ran in the 8 kn range. It…

Early in the morning, at 0700 I started to remove the sock from the gennaker because I got the feeling that something got twisted inside. To pull up the last about 3 m of the sock was difficult. While the 3 of us worked on the gennaker at MaRe’s bows, a guy in a motorboat…