All set for the Panama Canal Transit

'Sarf & West mate, Sarf & West'
Pete Bernfeld
Thu 11 Mar 2010 20:23
OK,
Money paid to the agent (after the most amazing SNAFU concerning
transferring money into my account, still not entirely resolved), frantic
phone calls to debit card company to get card working again, calls to
credit card company to find out after ten minutes on the phone that they
couldn't allow me to exceed my daily withdrawal limit as a one off, all in
all I used about US$12 worth of phone calls this morning!! BUT FINALLY,
all set for the transit tomorrow, Friday 12th.
We pick up our adviser in 'The Flats'(an anchorage near Gatun Locks) at
3pm Panama time, so U think that means we'll be going through Gatun Locks
about 4.30-5pm. Overnight in Gatun Lakes and then through Miraflores Locks
about 12 noon on Sat 13th Panama time, which is GMT -5.
I'll have an 'all girl' line-handling team, which should be fun although
the agent, Stanley, wasn't sure that the Adviser would like it. I told him
if he wasn't happy then he could tell them himself, personally I wasn't
that brave!

Don't forget the link for the webcams
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html