Since more than an hour we have no wind to sail and the little bit we feel comes from where we need to go. So we are currently drifting with 2 KN towards west. When the coffee for our coffee break was ready the wind increased but directly from the direction where we want to…

… and nice sunrise. Sailing is pretty comfortable. We are sailing with main and genoa at a light wind of 10 – 11 KN, AWA of 120 deg with around 4 KN. Autopilot in windvane mode. Wind forecast of ECMWF and SPIRE propose to pass the Galapagos on the eastern side. At least that’s what…

At 1500 we left the fuel station and headed out into the Pacific. Since we continued with our preparation work this morning, we were pretty busy. Since I got yesterday the ZARPE document in Panama City, we went at 0800 to immigration in San Carlos, a 10 min along the beach. The office, a lady,…

230320 . Farewells are sailors’ faith. Today or was Carlos, a taxi driver, who was introduced to me by a fellow sailor on Shelter Bay Marina in August last year. He not only drove me, my OBM, and friends around, but also knows where in Panama what can be obtained. To him I bid farewell…

Since yesterday the crew is completed; Tjasa arrived last night after a long trip from Slovenia. Provisioning is done. All is on board. The last things we bought yesterday are on board. We will stow them later today. I’m currently, together with Gaby & Ralf on my way to Panama City to make outbounce clearance.…

Got again a lot of preparation work done yesterday. But 2 things were steps back. First the charge controllers for 2 groups of solar panels did not arrive in Slovenia in time for being hand carried by the 3rd crew member who is currently on the way to Panama. Reason for the delay were the…

Among others, we filled yesterday the 4 jerrycans with diesel and stored it in the center storage room at the bow. This gives us 80 l of additional fuel or am increase of 20 % of the normal fuel tank.

Completed yesterday the oil & filter change at both engines and the diesel engine of the the genset. Wind develops currently good for a departure of 21 – 22 Mar.

Today I tried to get a simple built-in amp meter for max 10 A DC current. I could have been an analog or digital meter. It took at least 2 h until we found a shop which had a 15 A amp meter. While we drove from shop to shop I got again the impression…

Yesterday we mounted the genoa and greased the tell-tales that they don’t stick so easily in the stiched seams of the sail. Then filled 60 l of diesel from jerrycans into MaRe’s diesel tank to renew the diesel in the jerrycans. I also added one additional jerrycan. This will give us 80 l diesel in…