We spent a day at anchor. Most of the crew swam over to the two islands at PRT and STB. Sandy beaches, palm trees mean picture taking. I did some smaller work on board. As nobody caught a fish today, Mich bought a tuna or maybe it is a bonito. Not sure what it was.…

We left shortly after breakfast. A nice 4 – 5 Bft NE wind was blowing. As soon as anchor was up, we used the genoa and sailed towards the passage for going in and out of the lagoon. In time before the passage, genoa was furled to have maximal control over MaRe’s movements. Passage and…

I walked again with friends around Saradup an island in the San Blas archipelago. It’s my thyroid visit to this island and the people living there call me “anai”, meaning “friend”. The eastern part of the5 Island is very clean. No garbage is lying around. We walked from the eastern part towards the western tip…

After a comfortable night at anchor in the Chichime Cays, and after breakfast the friends went over to the island for sight seeing. I stayed on board because I had to do some work. When they came back, we prepared for departure and left. Out on the open water, I was wondering which sail to…

We were lucky and the wind did not turn against us. At the route leg with 105 deg wind was good enough to pull out the genoa to speed up on our way to the Chichime Cays. So we could make about a third of yesterday’s route with STW in the higher 6 KN range.…

After a very pleasant evening in Turtle Cay Marina, with a dinner at the marina restaurant – excellent menus – we left, to continue our sail to San Blas archipelago. Now it’s noon and we still have 4 Bft at an AWA of 15 deg PRT. It’s for me now a bit need wrecking because…

As we were a bit late morning with our departure of Linton Bay Marina, and we had very strong head winds the arrival at the Chichime Cays would have in the dark. In the dark I don’t want to approach any anchorage laying between shoals and coral banks, thus we had 2 possibility. First, we…

We were preparing for departure when the marineros came to assist with the lines. This is needed because when I go into the marina they take the lines and fix them at cleats of the dock. Preferably even one long rope at 2 cleats of the boat and 3 cleats at the dock. I don’t…

Just when I uploaded the previous narration, Wal got a bite. He immediately recognized it’s a big fish on the hook. Wall uses the the fighting belt to get the fish in cm by cm. I worsens the genoa trim to show down MaRe. It was not enough and I reduced the genoa to a…

With the 4 – 5 Bft wind from ENE we are running home to Linton Bay Marina at a speed around 7 KN. 2 swell of 2 m is are a bit short thus the sea is a bit choppy. It should get better later. For breakfast Kar and Wal prepared food already last night.…