We arrived at the Panama Canal Yacht Club on Saturday morning. The yacht club is in Colon in the middle of an industrial area surrounded by containers. It is rather run down but friendly and the restaurant serves good, inexpensive food. There was a colony of feral cats living behind the restaurant, cleaver cats. Jim and Nancy went to a 7th day Adventist church just outside the marina, with lay speakers rather than a minister, speaking in English. They received a ...

We left Panama at 11.30am on Thursday 18th for the San Blas islands. It was not a very pleasant journey, beating into twenty plus knots of wind and a big lumpy sea, with waves rolling over the fore deck and occasionally over the spray hood giving anyone in the cockpit a shower. We had to motor sail all the way. We stopped overnight in a lovely calm anchorage at Linton a privately owned island, continuing the next day and arriving at Isla Porvenir on Friday. Befo...