Passage Panama to French Polynesia, day 25, Thursday 13- April: A lot to write about today. So get your coffee, unhook your phone and when you are sitting comfortably …. then I…

Passage Panama to French Polynesia, day 24, Wednesday 12-April: At just 300nm from the finishing point, today saw the end of the good trade winds. For a steady week it has been…

Passage Panama to French Polynesia, days 22-23: Monday 10-April:Today, at 6pm, is 3 weeks since we departed Panama. It’s the longest passage we’ve done so far. Our Atlantic crossing had been a…

Passage Panama to French Polynesia, days 20-21. 8-9 April: Easter Saturday, 8-April. All day we had good speed, all downwind and no squalls or rain. Winds were steady 15-19kts SSE veering to…

Passage Panama to French Polynesia, day 19: Good Friday, 7-April The squalls that started last evening disappeared about midday, but the wind and waves persisted. Wind ESE 18-23kts and 3m short &…

Passage Panama to French Polynesia, day 18, Thursday 6-Apr: We had taken the spinnaker down at sunset yesterday and until 2am today regretted doing so. We’d spent the evening slopping around in…

Passage Panama to French Polynesia, day 17, Wednesday 5-Apr: It was a superb day sailing today. All day two-sail reaching with main and spinnaker. 115deg off the wind doing 7-9kts in 12-16.…

Passage Panama to French Polynesia, day 16, Tuesday 4-Apr: Bad smells on board, and for once it’s not the Captain! It was a beautiful full moonlit night’s sailing. Lovely 13-17kt beam wind…