Panama
BARONESS
Jim & Christine Lister
Sun 13 Mar 2011 14:56
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We made it to Shelter Bay on 10 March. We are
currently at 09.22.13N 79.56.99W. We have completed our entry formalities with
immigration and customs, and are expecting to be measured on 14 March, ready to
go through the canal.
The trip here from Bonaire was variable; we had all
sorts of weather, with the good being in the first few days, and then big seas
and strong winds followed. The day we arrived, the seas were starting to lay
down a bit. We are on a dock here in Shelter Bay, which is quite nice, but very
expensive.
We have a few bits and pieces to do on Baroness to
ready ourselves for the canal and the Pacific Ocean. There are the usual
maintenance things, but we also have other things such as our wind generator and
solar panel regulator has packed in. The push button switches on our Link
2000 panel, which helps monitor and control charging and inverting has developed
a fault. We'll get it sorted and be ready for the date we get to go through the
Canal. Son, Mark, will be joining us here and doing the canal crossing with us -
we are looking forward to that. He will fly out when we have a date for going
through the canal, which we expect to have by Monday evening or
Tuesday.
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