Thursday, July 5, 2012

Sailing from Bahia Honda to Panama City

Buddy boating is the safest way to travel the long, remote distances along the coastline to Panama City. S/V Blue and S/V Palm accompanied Talaria in this leg of our journey. We anchored on the north side of Isla Cebaco and then in Bahia Naranjo giving us 2 day trips before the 24 hour voyage to round Punt Mala into the Bay of Panama. We expected good weather but were surprised as we neared Punta Mala with northerlies right on our noses. 36 hours of rough seas and motor sailing into the wind is NOT what you see in ads for sailing boats. We were grateful to find the south anchorage at Isla Otoque to be protected by the high elevation on the island. We hid from the north winds (completely unexpected in this season) for 2 nights. A day trip to Taboga Island was disappointing as we hoped to get a mooring buoy but they were full. We anchored off the north side of the island with a strong north wind still howling through the rigging. The following day Blue and Palm traveled to Vacamonte to investigate the work yard and we proceeded to the Las Brisas Anchorage off Panama City.
No pictures due to the broken camera........

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