Heading back to Shelter Bay Marina, we stopped at Green Turtle Cay.  It was a short run and we saw…

Our next stop in the San Blas Islands was Lemon Cay. We were actually able to sail the 10 miles…

After a couple of days at our secluded W. Holandes Cay anchorage, we moved about 10 miles to The Swimming…

We left Shelter Bay Marina and headed to Green Turtle Cay Marina about 7 hours away. There wasn’t a lot…

The first order of business was to clear out the aft cabin so Patty would have a place to sleep.…

We saw Fort San Lorenzo on the hill overlooking our anchorage in the Chagre s River a few weeks back. …

We volunteered to be line handlers on a friends’ boat that was heading from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific…

We are back in Shelter Bay.  Not all our time is going to be spent at the pool and the…

Our trip back to Shelter Bay would be a 20-hour overnight sail.  We cut a few hours off the planned…

We left the sandy Starfish Beach and headed back to Red Frog to anchor for a couple of nights before…

Or as it’s also known, Starfish Beach.  This is the first sandy beach we have found or visited within the…

Cacao farm you say? Yes chocolate! The only day we could take the tour this week was yesterday. We had…

We have been very lucky to be able to experience this type of lifestyle, and we are on our third…

We are currently at Red Frog Marina which is associated with the Red Frog Resort. Yes, “resort” means they have…

We left Playa Azul Sunday right after breakfast.  It was raining, again.  It seems to rain a lot in Panamá,…

We left Bluefield on a windy morning after spending an hour trying to figure out why our Speed/Wind/Depth/GPS instruments were…

There are two destinations on this side of Panamá, the San Blas Islands and Bocas del Toro.  Some folks go…

We completed some boat maintenance and hopefully fixed our steering – there was a popping noise.  Maybe it’s gone.  Hard…

Shelter Bay is one of those ‘gotta go’ places in the cruising world, particularly since it sits at the Eastern…

More exciting times in Shelter Bay. The project list includes finding and fixing the noise in the steering, dealing with…