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Guatemala
January 27, 2012 Celebrating 2 years of cruising January is not over yet, so I can still say Happy New Year. Right, we’ve taken a 3-week break from cruising and took advantage of the great prices and...
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UTILA East Harbour
UTILA East HarbourFeb. 6, 2012Utila East Harbour (Honduras) 16º04.05N - 086º57.92WDomino turned to on 12/22/11 and we celebratedWe’re cruising again, and it was about time! We left the Rio Dulce...
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UTILA Cays
UTILA Southwest CaysFebruary 8, 2012Diamond Cay (Honduras)16º04.05N -086º57.92WThese cold fronts have been coming at us relentlessly one after the other and ended up making the anchorage at Utila’s...
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Dive Roatan
A Stoplight Parrotfish checks us outFebruary 16, 2012Roatan (Honduras)West End Mooring Field16º17.70N - 086º35.83WDeep waters, sheer drops, coral reefs, walls and white sand beaches = fishing, diving,...
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Guanaja: Green
March 2, 2012 (Happy 21st Birthday to our grandson Asa!)Mangrove Bight- splendid anchorage at the e of the volcanoMangrove Bight(Guanaja – Honduras) 16º30.191 N - 85º52.143WThe Gulf of Honduras is...
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Stormy Weather
Coming from the southeastMarch 8, 2012Mangrove Bight (Guanaja – Honduras)16º30.191 N 85º52.143WAs eager as we may be to move south and get to Panama’s San Blas Islands, we must respect the nasty...
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Lats & Atts
March 30th, 2012Huntington Beach, CACheck out the April issue of LATITUDES & ATTITUDES magazine. DOMINO is the featured boat with lots of pictures. We...
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The Hobbies
Fishermen at anchorAfter a 2-month hiatus, it’s about time I picked-up this blog again! I’m back on the boat (in Panama) while our California family starts their long road to partial recovery. To...
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Bocas del Toro
Sunny Boy having a good time at Ron Azul Bocas del Toro, PanamaFriday, May 25, 2012 09°20.04 N – 082°14.50WWhat happens in Bocas, stays in Bocas! There is so much to do here! Mostly, party. Good...
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Strike One
Fried antenna July 5, 2012 Portobelo (Panama)Why have I been so silent for so long? For one, we don’t have Internet on board (at least, not until tomorrow when we’re getting a long-awaited Digicel...
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Security: Bocas Attack
July 8, 2012 – Portobelo (Panama)Violent attacks on boats… you think it’s not really going to happen, not to anyone you know, and certainly not to you. And then, one morning, you hear the report on...
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PIRACY
August 8, 2012Portobelo, PANAMAPiracy is alive and well in the Caribbean. On August 30th, Capt. Cliff Vaughs lost his ship The Amistad to a crew of well-organized pirates. I am posting here his...
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Help in Baja
August 11, 2012Portobelo, PanamaPunta Cono (courstey Baja Nomad)HELP is needed to rescue a family and their sailboat, beached in Baja....We may be thousands of miles away but the cruising community is...
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Floating Doctors
The floating Docs Panga arrives at the villageFloating Doctors August 23, 2012Portobelo, PanamaOnce in a great while, an extraordinary human being comes along and changes lives. I grew up with tales...
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Shipping to Panama
Weight and volume are a considerationSeptember 3, 2012Portobelo, PanamaUPDATE--December 5, 2012 - If your boat is in Panama City, a new service caters to yachts in the Las Brisas/Amador/Balboa YC area...
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Little Fuses
JP checks the damages: all lights, radars and antennas blown!or The Big Surge ProtectorsSeptember 8, 2012Portobelo (Panama)Already three months since a direct lightning strike in the San Blas Islands...
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Canal Handling
September 13, 2012Portobelo, PanamaLINE HANDLING ON THE PANAMA CANALCulebra CutAre you planning on transiting the Panama Canal? How do you prepare? Do you believe the horror stories about ships being...
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Adios Portobelo
September 29, 2012 Portobelo, PanamaNo offense to Christopher Columbus, who is said to have discovered Portobelo Bay in 1502, but it’s about time we left this splendid spot and got on with our travels....
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Panama Canal
Transiting the PANAMA CANAL at 19 knots!JP & our son Arnaud raise the French Flag October 1, 2012Panama City, PanamaProtecting the solar panelsThere are some momentous occasions in a cruiser’s...
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DOMINO Picture Book
October 19, 2012Panama City, PanamaDOMINO - Made in Paraguay.... the picture book and blog record.If you've enjoyed reading our blog and looking at our pictures, a record of DOMINO's construction...
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