Wednesday, 01 March 2006
We crossed the line between the breakwaters on the Atlantic side of the
Panama canal at exactly noon – to the minute! This gave us exactly 100
hours at sea since leaving Antigua and an average speed on 11.64 knots for
the passage. We are now anchored on “The Flats” in Cristobal harbour about a
mile from the yacht club. We had the usual problem of dragging anchor here –
it is amazingly bad holding!
The last day of the passage saw much more wind and we charged in with a
poled out genoa and a big following sea. We put the fishing lines out once
we came in on the coast as we have caught tuna here before but no luck
today. We will sail to the San Blas on Friday afternoon once we have our
guests on board so hopefully we will catch some fish along the way. We are
all happy and healthy and looking forward to the islands
Regards = PHil