Monday June 16 th. OK, I re-did the calculations, and since it is just too much of a pain to fix my motor I’m going to stay here in Colon Panama for a few years. Now don’t go criticizing me for making this decision, it has several merits. I figure that I’ll just stay here and then in three years I’ll come home and tell everyone that I sailed around the world. Here is the big bonus, I just did all the calculations. If I stay here in Colon, rather than sailing I should have enough money to stay drunk...

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...