The Tuamotos are all they're cracked up to be! 😍 We've been eating lots of coconuts and sprouts. Since the fish inside the atolls are a high risk of Ciguatera.

Nice little sail once we got our anchor chain unwrapped from a bommie. Even with four floats the chain found a nice place to hook this morning. Otherwise, a nice slow sail.

Ol Goose was a bit too quick so we heaved to and floated for a few hours waiting to enter the pass at Makemo.

This place is ridiculous. 🤤

It's so beautiful. Now, time to make a margherita.

As we were headed back to the big city on Nuku Hiva the wind and dolphins seemed to beckon us a different direction so now we're at Ua Pou

It lost connection. Bye bye 💸😬

No fish, but Kelsey was able to reel in our hand line before a big sailfish got it! He took some bits and followed it up to the boat. glad we didn't hook him!

We did it!!!

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.

When you are tacking into it all day sometimes you just decide to go somewhere else. We'll try again tomorrow. Haha!

Up to 9.5 knots at times and then BAM down to 4 and back again.

We headed out of the Exumas to some big waves, but very little wind. Tacking our way East the wind clocked around but remained at about 10 knots. Finally as we approached long island we had a nice 14 knots and ripped along into the anchorage.

Glad to be in clear skinny water for a bit before we head East.

Here it comes! As much as we want food weather a day still catching up on work and boat projects while the weather passes is welcome.

Starboard engine kept flying and sucking air so we had to shut it down and use the port along with three wraps in the jib and two reefs in the main. Gusts to 30 knots. Sportiest conditions so far for us.

Sailed 80 miles to go 47. A long day of tacking into waves and then we ran around onto a sand bank in the pitch dark. Good times! 😂

Hopefully the last time we're in the USA for a few years.😁🤙 There wasn't much wind, but there was Mahi!