Trip from St Lucia to the San Blas Islands took eight days, we had to slow down toward the end so that we would not arrive in darkness. Weather was kind to us, we did sail a hundred miles out from the Columbian coast trying to avoid the notorious rough seas,(apparently in the top [...]

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Position at 11:25 BST 14.174, -62.068
1064 miles to go.  ETA San Blas Islands (Porvenir) at 5knts 22:18 8th April
Wind ESE 4/5 with rain squalls to 6
We finally got away at 20:00 last night.  The anchorage had quite a few new arrivals yesterday that had anchored very close to existing boats so its good to be [...]

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