Photos of the Day: Siesta in PanamaApril 16 - Panama & Environs Fortunately, the reality is much better.
The little cutie is a member of the Wounaan tribe in Panama.
While her tribe lives only 20 miles from Colon on the Caribbean
side of the Canal, the tribe is almost identical in culture and
customs to the other Wounaan and Embera tribes that are found
in the largely uninhabited Darien province of Panama. Here is Siesta and several other yachts anchored off East Hollandes Cay in the fabled San Blas Islands on the Caribbean side of Panama. The Marills note that it's not uncommon for circumnavigators to say that the San Blas Islands are what they thought the South Pacific was going to be like. |
A third shot is of Ricardo, a Kuna indian, with Daisy and Siesta crewman Hank Delevati, serving lobster dinner as the sun goes down off a beautiful sandy beach. Lobster is common in the San Blas Islands. In fact, the locals fly about 500 pounds a day out to Miami.
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Not Sure If You Want A Liferaft For Your Cruising Boat?April 16 - Caribbean
The other sequence is of the Catana 44 Bad Bad that hit a whale about 10 miles off St. Lucia, also in the Eastern Caribbean, holing the starboard hull and breaking one of the rudders. Although the singlehander abandoned the cat, she was later found partially still afloat several days later.
If you're thinking that only boat models with names that start with the letters 'ca' tend to sink, think again and make sure your liferaft is in good working order because there are lots of other letters in the alphabet! |
They're Back Again,
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And also say hello to Stephanie Wayne,
behind the wheel. |
YOTREPSApril 16 - The Pacific Ocean and Cyberspace Who is out making passages in the Pacific and what kind of weather are they having? The YOTREPS daily yacht tracking page has moved to www.bitwrangler.com/psn. |
Weather UpdatesApril 16 - Pacific Ocean San Francisco Bay WeatherTo see what the winds are like on the Bay and just outside the Gate right now, check out http://sfports.wr.usgs.gov/wind. The National Weather Service site for San Francisco Bay is at www.wrh.noaa.gov/Monterey. California Coast WeatherLooking for current as well as recent wind and sea readings from 17 buoys and stations between Pt. Arena and the Mexican border? Here's the place - which has further links to weather buoys and stations all over the U.S.: www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Southwest.shtml. Pacific Winds and PressureThe University of Hawaii Dept. of Meteorology page posts a daily map of the NE Pacific Ocean barometric pressure and winds. Pacific Sea StateCheck out the Pacific Ocean sea states
at: http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/RSSA/PacRegSSA.html.
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