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Crew Day, Old Panama City & Shopping

The day started slowly. Our agent, Enrique Plummer, had said he’d show up to collect the tires and lines. By 10am there was no show so I called him to say we were off. We’d designated the day as a … Continue reading

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Walking the Causeway

We decided to stick together on Sunday and take a walk up the causeway. First order of the day was to hail the launch. This took a while but we finally attained their attention and soon the launch was on … Continue reading

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Canal Transit Day 2

According to our first advisor, our second advisor was due to show up at 6:30am for a 7am departure. Our day 2 advisor, Francisco, arrived at 6:15am requesting an immediate departure. We scrambled, untied from the buoy and were moving … Continue reading

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Boat Cleaning and Trip to Colon

Today was another busy one. We started the day scrubbing the entire deck removing the last of the Cartagena grime. Around mid morning the admeasurer arrived to measure the length of Dignity and fill out the paperwork for our crossing. … Continue reading

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Shelter Bay

We had what I thought was a very exciting sail from our last anchorage to Shelter Bay marina. If we thought we’d been playing slalom with the tankers in the shipping lane it was now dodgems sailing into Colon bay. … Continue reading

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