After waiting on the canal, the canal transit and now provisioning on the other side and running endless errands its finally time to get away from the city!! We slow sailed to a nearby island and there isn't a building in sight. 😍 Plus, we caught a Giant Trevally!

8 years ago while Overlanding the Pan American Highway camped in the jungle looking at the Canal we met a guy who would become one of our best friends. Today we had him and his wife, and a couple of other cool travelers, on board our boat to head through the canal. 4 days ago we were filling out paperwork while people told us it was crazy to not use an agent or that we would have to wait a month or two to cross. Yesterday we called to see if we were in the schedule and heard we had a rare and coveted one day, daytime crossing. It was exhausting and so much fun to share this with friends from Panama. This is what traveling is all about for us. Putting yourself out there to meet people from completely different backgrounds that are exactly the same as you. 😁😍🤙

The elusive one day Panama Canal crossing begins tomorrow. No agent used and it all seemed so easy we're a little scared we did something wrong. 😬🤞🤷🏼‍♂️

The forecast called for 12 knots of wind decreasing, but we had 17 to 30 for a couple hours. We kept heading down wind to make sure we didn't overload the rig to keep the apparent wind low. It was a wild day of surfing your home.

When worlds collide. As we sailed closer to Panama the mountain ahead of us happened to be the one we camped at in our Land Cruiser years ago as we drove the Pan American Highway. We camped up on a hill the day before shipping our truck to Colombia looking out at the water in 2018. Now, here we are in the ocean headed right towards our old spot. Our cubicle office dwelling selves never would have thought we'd do either adventure, let alone both.

We headed out from Jamaica knowing it would be a 4 night passage. Right out of the harbor we had good wind and were surprised to be sailing along at 8.5 to 9 knots. As we rounded the island we just kept cruising along at a good clip day and night. The next thing we knew we were 24 hours out from Linton Bay and if we sailed well we could make it before sunset of our third night. We came in right as the sun set and dropped the hook. A great passage.

It was one of those days. Our electric winch decided to stop working and our wind sensors failed. It was a good exercise in figuring out sail trim the manual way and raising sails the slow way. Our forecasted wind never seemed to show. It was almost all motor sailing. We went so close to Cuba we were waving at fisherman. Right about when we realized we wouldn't make it before immigration and customs closed the wind and waves came up. We were surfing down waves and hitting 11 knots and back to 8 in between. We made it and got checked into Jamaica during a down pour. It feels good to be in a new country! 🇯🇲♥️🇯🇲

When you both can't sleep at 2am... Might as well get sailing. A rough, but quick sail from Crooked to Great Inagua.