As today’s sailing distance was short, we first had breakfast and lifted the anchor just after 1000. The wind was of pretty strong 5 Bft. This means it required much more attention and steering while going through the small passage of 8 m water depth to leave the lagoon we were in. Once we passed…

We wanted to spent the day at anchor to look at the island Salardup and try to catch fish. Starting with fishing, it was without any success. We must have tried it at the wrong spot. Ok, we didn’t consider to go by tender to a place where the swell from outside of the reef…

… deep blue waters .. in the San Blas archipelago. We had from last night’s anchorage to the this nights anchorage, a stretch of 10 NM which we sailed. Main up to reef 1 and the genoa out fully we sailed mostly between 8 – 9 KN. It just was great to see MaRe cutting…

The anchorage between at N 09° 35.238, W 078° 52.809, between the 2 bigger islands of the Chichime Cays, turned out to be good. The anchor is at about 10 m and I let out 55 m of rode. MaRe quickly hang stable in the trade wind blowing with 3 Bft in a very narrow…

Although we have now 15 KN wind, AWA 25 – 35 deg PRT, and the genoa gives us with the engines sometimes even 7 KN, I decided to take the first possible anchorage of the San Blas archipelago. This is between 2 islands of the Chichime Cays. I hope that there is still some space…

The last days in LBM, we had strong winds from NE, which would have meant long tacks are needed and a night at sea with sails. Running with engines against 4 – 6 Bft winds with engines would not have been an alternative. A night at sea would have been needed, because without sufficient daylight…

Lifted the anchor in the first daylight from 15 m. That time there was a nice wind, because i didn’t want to have wind while lifting the hook single handed. When I wanted the wind, it got blown into the wind. Only engines. Currently AWA between 30 – 120 deg PRT. The greatest sailing wind…

During the night before and far into the day it was raining. Thus, I decided to stay a day at anchor. Had to do quite the some work and decided I start 221129 with the first daylight and head back to LBM. During the day I got some visitors. The first man offered to clean…

Already while I dropped the hook again in front of El Porvenir island, the same ladies as two days ago, came again in their dugouts and tried to sell their molas… Looking at the watch, I decided to do this admin work of paying my fees already today. Today, with me alone on board, the…

This morning we left around 0800 the anchorage at El Porvenir to motor to Puerto di Carti. There Ste, Kas, and Kon had an appointment with Edgar, a local Guna taxi driver to bring them to the airport. While at anchor already at Puerto di Carti, we had some last things to be done and…