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Of Monkey Fists and Cleat Hitches
Panama City, Panama Greetings from the Pacific Ocean! We successfully transited the Panama Canal yesterday and are thrilled to be back in the Pacific. The journey yesterday actually started the night before on May 1st at 9:30 p.m., when our three Panamanian...
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Went for the Wedding, Stayed for the Funeral
Shelter Bay Marina, Colon, Panama Life is full of events which mark moments of growth, challenge, change. A life well-lived is one in which we can find the opportunity in each of these moments to make a difference – to the people in our lives, to the...
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No Turning Back Now
Shelter Bay Marina, Colon, Panama Now we’ve gone and done it. Early in the evening of March 21st under a nearly full moon we edged Kailani out of Soper’s Hole in the British Virgins and laid a course southwest by west for Panama. This thousand-mile passage...
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When the Bottom Falls Out
Soper’s Hole, Tortola Isl, BVIs We have now been in the BVIs for only 12 days with a steady balance of work hard play hard going on here on Kailani. We have anchored at four different islands, kayaking, swimming and snorkeling each place to size...
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