.Bocas del Toro is located on Isla Colon in the west part of Panama’s Atlantic coast. It is separated from the mainland by Bahia Almirante. By those two facts, the place is really remote and has a feel of being…
Another year, another hurricane season escape!
On April 4th, with the 2021 hurricane season approaching, my wife and I left Dallas for Freeport, Grand Bahamas to join our Super Maramu which was sitting there on the hard. We had to transport quite a large amount of…
Annapolis to the Bahamas
After a long year without much sailing due to the Covid-19 virus, we decided it was time to look ahead to the next sailing season. My hope was to be somewhere else other than Annapolis before the next hurricane season.…
Away from the Hurricane Zone! Making our way to Annapolis, MD
At the time, we were less than two months away from the 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season. Our hull insurance coverage requires us to be north of Cape Hatteras by June 1st. It’s about 500 or 700 NM all the…
Dominica
Roseau We got some greatest sailing this day! There was a broad reach at around 15 knots of wind and a smooth sea so we sailed at around 7-8 knots with hardly any heel! Soon, we spotted the outline of…
Martinique
After a great stay at the Rodney Bay Marina, on January 12, we finally cast off their dock and motored out to the anchorage in the bay itself. Rodney Bay is a nice and well protected anchorage, very popular with…
St. Lucia
After we arrived to Rodney Bay Marina, we had to fill out customs and immigration forms at the marina office and then took a look around. There was a small market, a few restaurants, and even a pool at the…
Gibraltar with Wojtek and Andrzej
After two short hops with an overnight anchoring at Lagos Bay, we reached Gibraltar or rather its Spanish counterpart, La Línea de la Concepción. We docked at Alcaidesa Marina on November 1st, 2019. The stopover there was much needed as…
Lisbon
In the morning of the October 5th, 2019, we cast off of Lagos Bay to sail further north to Lisbon. By the afternoon of the next day, we reached Cascais, a town and marina at the northern shore of…
Lagos
Lagos, Portugal is located about mid-way sailing from Gibraltar to Lisbon. It’s a lovely town with a very busy marina, Marina de Lagos, which is used by most of the vessels plying between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. We could…