9.22N;79.57W

Around the world with the Aqualunies
Jonathan & Gabrielle Lyne
Fri 5 Feb 2010 03:26
Thursday 4th February, 2010
We are now in Shelter Bay Marina having sailed from Porvenir in the
San Blas. We dropped Jonathan's sister and brother-in-law, Janice and Tony
Vining, off to catch a flight from the extreamly small airport with the shortest
runway we have ever seen to fly to Panama and onwards towards the UK, these
airstips were built during the secound worl war to protect the coast. We
set off for Shelter Bay at 6.30 am, caught a 5lb Tuna on the way and arrived
here at 4p.m. No berth, for us a very busy, small, marina with everybody
waiting besides the BWR to be measured before being allowed to go throught the
Panama Canal. It is a bit chaotic, latin spanish, we are at anchor near the
pontoons and have been promised one tomorrow, we did persuade them we needed to
fill up with water urgently so they moved one yacht for an hour so that we
could., at least I can get ten days worth of laundry done. It will be better
when we can scrub the decks of all the salt and polish the stainless steel as
that hasn't been done since we left Bonaire so it is all looking rather tired
and dirty.
We seem to have been very lucky with our crossing to the San Blas as many
of the other yachts who did not go to Cartagena but straight from Curacoe hit
very heavy seas and winds of 40 plus causing quite a lot of damage to some of
them, not many of them were able to visit the southern section of the San Blas
which is ashame as it is less touristy therefore more original and interesting,
we only came across a couple of other yachts. Supper ashore tonight at the
Marina very busy full of yachties.
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