Ala Wai Harbor and the DOBOR
Once we’d arrived, clearing in was a piece of cake. When you arrive in Hawaii by boat you have to do three things: report to Customs & Border Protection (CBP), get an agricultural declaration and, of course, …
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Day 28 Panama to Hawaii
I’m typing this exactly one week after we arrived in Honolulu. More on that in a later post. First, the last week at sea. And we can keep that fairly short: more of the same. Contrary to the forecast, we kept good …
Day 23 Panama to Hawaii
Today, a guest writer… When people think of the Pacific Ocean, they picture gently lapping wavelets on an almost soporific swell, with lovely temperatures and gorgeous sunsets. That certainly happens, but for us, apart …
Day 19 Panama to Hawaii
Clipperton is already a distant memory, so time for an update on how things are going. The plan was that after Clipperton we’d just be sailing in steady northeast trade winds, but reality is (was) a bit more …
Day 14: Clipperton Island
A few years ago, when I first started looking into the route we’re now sailing, I came across Clipperton Island. The only atoll in the eastern Pacific, and uninhabited. Well, zero people and 200,000 birds. Plus an …
Day 12 Panama to Hawaii
Wow, another 6 days have flown by! And of course you’re all dying to know what we’ve been up to. That’s actually easy to sum up: We slept We ate We sailed for 5 days goose-winged in very light following …
Day 6 Panama to Hawaii
Goodbye, Panama! Today is Sunday 10 May. Since we set off on Tuesday 6 May, this is already our 6th day at sea. Around 14:00 we’ll have been underway for 5x24 hours, and until yesterday afternoon we motored the …
Through the Panama Canal
This is our second day at sea and things are finally starting to calm down. It was pretty hectic here and there, as you’ll read below. But let’s start at the beginning, as one should. Marion and I bought …
Back in Panama
Yesterday, the day after my mother’s 85th birthday, Marion and I flew to Panama. Good flight with KLM, nice service and, if anything, almost too much food. We had a big box with us containing a new Watt&Sea, …
Cartagena, San Blas and Panama
After the enormous heat of Cartagena we were more than ready for a bit of sailing again. A day and a half in advance I told the agent we wanted to leave at 0600 in the morning. So his assistant came by that morning to …
Cartagena de Indias
Cartagena is a sizeable city with more than a million inhabitants. Unfortunately it’s also pretty hot, so after the first day we’d figured it out: in the morning you can get something done, then lunch, then …
To Cartagena with Jesse and Sander
It’s exactly noon local time, and we’ve been under way since 06:00 yesterday morning, having left Aruba bound for Cartagena in Colombia. But first, a quick step back in time. After spending two weeks on the …