Dennis the first crew member is already on board, Tjasa the second member arrives in Panama on the 19.Mar. Provisioning is done for the biggest part. Now we are working on adjustments. It’s quite a challenging tasks to buy food for 3 people and such a long time. We store food not only for the…

Crew – One member is on board, and the second member needs to clarify a vaccination matter. She will arrive ASAP. Provisioning of canned food etc is almost done. Fresh food, vegetables and fruits, will be bought just prior to departure. Refueling situation in the marina is already clarified. A problem is still the wind.…

I thought I have a small and good crew but heath reasons again caused the crew to fall apart. I started already some days ago to look for a new crew and got a few contacts. I also consider the option of sailing single handed. It’s possible to do it. The radar, AIS, and other…

The start in Golfito was perfect. 3 min after we reached the bus stop the bus arrived. 3 USD for 55 km, is a fair price. About the impressions during the bus ride, I’ll write another narration. Then we reached Canoas International, the border station. The adventurous area when we arrived a few days ago.…

Compared to the last day today was boring. We got up, walked around the corner for a breakfast (rice with black beans, a small salad, and 2 eggs plus a very (!!!) strong coffee). Then, we took off and walked along the main street to look at what Golfito is. Without going into details, it’s…

Part 4 I decided to put our passports on the same level to avoid a problem when entering Panama. For each of us a Costa Rican immigration officer filled in an application form with 4 copies. Then this immigration officer accompanied us back to Panama. He handled in the application forms, our passports and explained…

Part 3 – because the story is longer than we thought We thought we have legally arrived in Costa Rica because we didn’t see any border station of Costa Rica. We found quickly a cheap hotel for a night and had a pizza at an eatery around the corner. All was fine and we planned…

After about 20 Panamanian minutes, which are equivalent to an hour on normal time scale, a little bus came and brought us to the immigration office in David. So we will make it to David, which is just 50 km from the border. There they told us very friendly to sit down and wait. We…

Ralf & Gaby and me need to renew our visa. For this we need to leave the country walk around the customs building, and come back in again. Since the early morning time we are on our way. In about an hour, at 0930 we made almost made half of the distance to the border.…

Today, after reading again several emails on entry conditions into Ecuador, our conclusion was that about 600 USD only for inbound and outbound clearance is too much. On top of this, we need to pay marina fees. That will quickly run up to 1000 USD for a few days in Ecuador. We also know several…