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Galapagos - passage and adventures
By Ewan | May 13, 2009
We’ve been in the Galapagos now for about 5 days.
Life has been very busy doing lots of trips to explore the huge amout on offer here. We’ve been diving, surfing, cliff jumping, snorkelling, hiking, biking, shopping and somewhere in there relaxing and recovering from the 8 days at sea, and preparing for the next leg [...]
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The Canal Transit and Panama City
By Ewan | May 13, 2009
The Canal Transit all went pretty smoothly in the end. The hired tyres, ropes and professional line handlers all did their various tricks and we came through with all our cleats and stantions intact.
The advisors that the canal authority provide were both very helpful (although slightly baffled as to why a racing boat was so [...]
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Canal transit tomorrow…
By Ewan | April 23, 2009
So we’ve filled the boat up with food, fitted the new mainsail, and have some new crew. Logic is now sitting noticably lower in the water!
Jens, Nicole and Tuck have joined and we’re going to pick up Jurrie on saturday on the Pacific side before heading off for the Galapagos on either Sunday or [...]
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Colon
By Ewan | March 31, 2009
First of all apologies for doing such a woeful job of keeping this blog up to date. I’ve been posting retrospectively and am just about up to date (they’re all on the website - didn’t want to bombard you with all the posts) and promise to do better in future!!
…and so to Colon and the [...]
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The San Blas Islands
By Ewan | March 31, 2009
We set off from Aruba with some distance to cover over the top of South America to get to the San Blas islands just off the Panamanian coast. The route is well known for producing some of the most wild conditions on the worldwide cruising circuit, and we weren’t to be disappointed. Conditions started off [...]
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Aruba
By Ewan | March 31, 2009
Aruba is a short overnight sail from Curacao. We even had to do some early morning slowing down tactics to make sure that we arrived in sufficient light to get in through the reef to the marina. Once checked in, and tied up in the marina, a quick dive to the bottom of the rudder [...]
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Curacao
By Ewan | March 31, 2009
Curacao was next on the list. Here we caught up with Ewan’s parents on Sea Topaz again (they’d sailed here from St Lucia), and also some of Ewan’s Dutch family on holiday in the local resort.
We tucked into the anchorage in Spanish Town (another Spanish Town!) which is an amazing inland waterway with a very [...]
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Los Roques
By Ewan | March 31, 2009
From Margarita we had a pleasant overnight sail to the archipelago of Los Roques. This is a stunning group of low lying islands. We tucked into one of the cays right at the western end and shared a small anchorage with a motor yacht the first night, but after they left the following morning, we [...]
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Margarita
By Ewan | March 31, 2009
Slightly off the beaten Caribbean track, Margarita is an island off the Venezuelan mainland. It is a popular holiday destination for Venezuelans and was our first taste of South America. This place isn’t exactly set up for easy cruising life. Check in (and check out) took several days and security is less than perfect here, [...]
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Grenada
By Ewan | March 29, 2009
From Tobago Cays we went briefly to Union Island to check out of St Vincent and the Grenadines. On our way over to Carriacou (part of Grenada) we stopped off at Petit St Vincent for lunch. With the wind close to 20knots Denise and Ewan quickly rigged up some windsurfing kit to enjoy the amazing [...]
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