We have continued our cruise through the San Blas, making the most of this idyllic place. After a few days of enjoying the beautiful Holandes islands and the weekly Monday cruiser pot luck get-together, followed by a few days of kite surfing and wake boarding in the Coco Banderas islands, we headed [...]

Day One (12/03/2010) Arrived in the San Blas. Paradise on the horizon appeared through an early afternoon sea haze with palm trees and a line of breaking waves where the outer reef was forcing the sea swell up . We made contact with Sunboy who where anchored in the East Holandes, the same place we [...]

Al from Sunboy welcomed us into Cartagena with his big Ozzie grin and firm hand shake. We hadn't seen Sunboy since New year at Mustique. He introduced us to David, a customs agent and general fixer. Somewhat surprisingly his office; his 4 door, bright red, bling bling hubs and oversized buck seat [...]

After our circuitous trip via Curacao and Aruba we finally arrived at Cartagena at lunchtime today. The 3 day/2 night sail across was definitely a tale of two halves - for the first half we had no wind so motored (in fact I was worried we would run out of fuel!), and then in the space of an hour yesterday [...]

It's been an interesting couple of weeks and quite awhile since I gave my perspective on our happenings. So we left Antigua, a simple passage marred a) by some dodgy Venezuelan navy vessel with broken English and no radio etiquette that prompted a quick call to Falmouth coastguard to report the incident, [...]