Hello everyone. We are still in the Galapagos Islands. We spent the first few days catching up on some rest after our long sail from Panama and cleaning the boat as it gets quite dirty on a long passage.
I wanted to fill you in on our ‘crossing of the Equator’ experience. I [...]

We’ve arrived at the Galapagos Islands! We are safe and sound and have arrived around 1pm today! We came in on practically fumes…but we made it. We are anchored off Isla Santa Cruz and awaiting Customs and Immigration. We are not to leave the boat until they come. A Doctor is [...]

On the way to Galapagos…..We are all safe and somewhat sane! We were hoping to arrive at the Galapagos this morning however, our fuel supply has run lower than anticipated and we had to go well out of our way and tack to catch some wind….long story-short, we will be there tomorrow (Monday) late afternoon(ish). [...]

Just a brief wrap up of our time in Panama. Of course the Canal was very exciting. You read about what Mike and Gary had to say…so you know that none of us were thrilled with Panama City. We heard such great things about it, but don’t feel it was worth a trip [...]

Hello Everyone! What an experience transiting the Panama Canal!
There are actually two parts to the process. Travel three locks up to Gatun Lake the first night….then sleep on the lake. The next morning on to the next three locks, down to the Pacific Ocean. Gary steered us thru the first three [...]

Mike, Gary and Ben lost when rolling dice last night so they are cooking breakfast and have to clean up…. (Happy Mother’s Day to me too-Ha)

First: Congratulations to my niece, Kelsey McConaghy on her First Holy Communion today!
Just a quick update to let you know we made our transit thru the canal!!!! What an experience. We finsihed around 1pm on Friday afternoon. We heard several of you were able to see us go thru the last of the [...]

First things first….Happy Birthday Tommy Love! (I’m thinking of you!)
So here we are at the Marina in Colon. Boy is it HOT! We have been told we will begin making our transit through the Canal tomorrow late afternoon 5pm ish. Panama is CST(central standard time). We will begin by picking up our pilot [...]

Hello all. Just a quick update to let you know we arrive in Panama this morning at 5am. It was a tougher trip than we expected as the seas were higher (8′-12′) than anticpated by the weather report. High winds (15-20kts.) made our trip a few hours quicker, which was good for Mike [...]