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Ep. 76 – Palacio de las Garzas I Panama Presidential Palace
We take a personal tour of the Presidential Palace in Panama, called the Palacio de las Garzas (Herons' Palace) with our friend and fellow West Point Graduate Mario! We finally get our new Spinnaker sail! We checkout the views from Gamboa. As we wait on ...
Ep. 75 – Crossing the Canal Again? And More Things Break!
After we crossed the Panama Canal. We said goodbye to Diana and headed back to Illinois and Florida respectively to visit family, get doctors check ups, and order a few parts for the boat. Alan took a side trip down to Guatemala to visit a friend working ...
Nature Power Marine Grade 400 Watt Wind Generator Installation & Review
We needed to make power during night sails, so we looked for quality and affordable wind generators. We decided on Nature Power after a friend's recommendation, and tackled trying to install with little knowledge on electrical stuff. The controller ended u...
Panama Canal Full Crossing in a Sailboat
Here is the raw footage from our Gopros and iPhones of the January 2021 Southbound (Caribbean to Pacific) transit of the Panama Canal. Includes some time lapses. If you'd like to see a more condensed version, check out: Day 1 : https://youtu.be/C5hheKgHmZ...
Ep. 72 – How to Cross the Panama Canal Without an Agent (Part 1, Prep)
In this episode, we go over the preparation process on how to cross (transit) the ⛴Panama Canal🚢. We walk you through what we did, how much it cost us, and lessons learned. It ended up being super simple and we are glad we didn't pay and extra $500 fo...
Panama Canal Time lapse
Here is a time-lapse of our Southbound Transit of the Panama Canal in our 40' Bavaria sailboat in January 2021. 3 locks up 85 ft to Lake Gatun from the Caribbean, 28 nautical miles across the canal, and 85 ft down into the Pacific. It's not a continuous v...
Ep. 74 – How to Cross the Panama Canal Without an Agent (Part 3, Canal Day 2)
After spending the evening in Lake Gatun, a new advisor arrives the next morning to take us the remainder of the transit south to the Pacific Ocean through the Pedro Miguel and Miraflores Locks! Barrett Young & PJ Kelliher thanks for the GoPros, they ...
Ep. 73 – How to Cross the Panama Canal Without an Agent (Part 2, Crossing Day 1)
For our 2 day southbound transit of the Panama Canal (1 day for northbound) After being told by the Canal Authority to anchor in "The Flats" at noon, we waited over 4 hours until our advisor came aboard and directed us to the canal. We tied onto a tug so w...
Isla Mujeres Miramar Lobster House Fire26 April 2021
After a propane explosion from the neighboring restaurant occurred on 26 April 2021(not the 27th). Mirimar Lobster House and other restaurants burned down as a result. Mirimar's staff and owners were like family for ourselves and many other sailors and c...
Ep. 71 – Exploring Panama (San Lorenzo, Fort Sherman and Isla Grande)
Our friend Diana comes down to help us cross the canal as a line handler, but before we cross the canal we do some site seeing! First we check out the old Spanish Fort San Lorenzo built in the late 1500’s on the Chagres River about 8 miles from Colon. Th...
Ep. 70 – Colon (Walking around Panama’s most dangerous city)
Part of our Panama Canal transit process was paying for it all in the city of Colon. Multiple friends, guidebooks, and locals said this was a SUPER dangerous city to be in. So of course after we paid our transit fee, we decided to buy some cans of premixed...
Ep. 69 – Sail to Panama, NYE
We do a 2 day sail from San Andres Colombia to Panama to get ready for the Panama Canal crossing, find out we have a pretty cool feature on our autopilot, go over our Radar system and dodge a lot of container ships waiting to transit the canal! We test neg...
Panamanian Beer Reviews (Part 2) (Balboa Ice, Prima, Atlas Golden Light, and Atlas Lager)
The second round of Panamanian beers we found in our local grocery store, we throw back Balboa Ice, Prima, Atlas Golden Light, and Atlas Lager beers in some cool locations with special guest Diana. If you enjoyed this video and want to see more, consider ...
Ep. 68 – San Andres, Colombia Christmas
Legally in Colombia, we head out and explore the island of San Andres just in time for Christmas. We bid farewell to James to head back to the USA, and we spend Christmas Eve with a new friend that invited us to his local neighbor hood to show us who they ...