Just wanted to let every one know that the date has changed to Next Thursday, May 8th for the transit! So Mike and I will transit today on another boat as line handlers, and then possibly do a little cruising around on the Carib side, then Mike flies out on the 7th and I transit on the 8th! Been hanging out a lot in Colon and checked out Panama city yesterday, otherwise nothing too exciting to report other than the recent website update, and more updates are being added very soon. Hope all is well with everybody, I´m off to...

Wednesday April 9th 2008. Cristobal Harbor, Colon Panama, Panama Yacht club. Ok, well overdue for a real update, so I suppose I start where I left off in the Exuma sound on March 16th. Didn’t take long for a little breeze to set it, and I was back under sail at 4+ knots, I suppose that’s the advantage of a small boat, some of the cruisers on 45′ steal boats that are happy doing 7.5kts in 25kts of wind tell me that below 10kts of wind they are nearly stuck to the water with no way at all. So the...

NASSAU to Highborn Cay, Exumas Bahamas. BLAH... So, wanted to get up early (dawn) and sail out of Nassau after some very much needed R&R. Have been taking yoga classes and eating vegan means for several days now and feeling a little better since the marathon Salsa-Refit that seemed like it might never end. So for the juicy part, got the boat all ready to go this morning so I could have enough time to make an actual sail of the trip. Then just as I was pulling up the anchor, MY HEART SUNK INTO MY STOMACH, at the end...

Location as of 8:00 AM Eastern 4/13/08 Although we can't drink together, buy me a beer and I will think of you as I enjoy it (payment through PayPal, click on beer)...

Got here ok after my 11 day solo passage.  Only have a minute to write and I couldn´t possibly tell all write now so I´ll write more very soon, including all of the crazy details from Storms, and calms, to a close call with a freighter, to catching sea monsters, almost loosing my finger, sleepless day and nights then days of rest and reading, approaching and Panama and anchoring engineless, customs telling me I had to go back to Bahamas for Zarpe and much more!  i pretty much got it all!!  But I´m here in Panama and OK  And I´ll update very...

Location 1:00 AM Eastern 4/3/08 (arrived Panama and waiting to go through canal). Although we can't drink together, buy me a beer and I will think of you as I enjoy it (payment through PayPal, click on beer)...

Location Panama approx 3:30 PM Easter 4/2/08 Although we can't drink together, buy me a beer and I will think of you as I enjoy it (payment through PayPal, click on beer)...

Location as of 7:30 AM Eastern 4/1/08 Although we can't drink together, buy me a beer and I will think of you as I enjoy it (payment through PayPal, click on beer)...