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Going through the Panama Canal

March 14, 2026Matt 6 Comments

I spent 10 days in Panama City waiting for my slot. The anchorage was pretty rolly but I got a lot of stuff done, including replacing the windlass gypsy (Lewmar has maybe some of the best support I’ve seen from… Continue reading →

Circumnavigation panama canal, sailboat, sailing, sooner

Zooming through Panama

February 16, 2026Matt 7 Comments

Once I had escaped Costa Rica (relatively) unscathed, the next thing was to reach the canal. I hadn’t really looked into it too much and naively assumed that the canal would be the hard part, turns out getting there is… Continue reading →

Circumnavigation panama, panama canal, sailboat, sailing, sooner

New Update

February 10, 2026Matt 8 Comments

So yeah, new entry. Mainly because I realised reading back through that it was nice to have a journal, I forget a lot of stuff! Anyway, this summer I was working at another lodge, this time a luxury resort (emphasis… Continue reading →

Circumnavigation panama, sailing

Update and the blogs future

January 1, 2025Matt 8 Comments

Hi everyone! At this point I am over a year behind, having left off just at Bahia Frailes. So here is a year, in recap. Got to La Paz, hung out with friends from Canada and new friends Raced Maquinna Point… Continue reading →

Circumnavigation, Other goodbye, sailboat, sailing

Heading down the outside of the Baja coast – Part 2

June 2, 2024Matt 4 Comments

So apparently the email notifications haven’t been working for months, and I just found out so will hopefully fix soon! The stretch from Turtle Bay to Santa Maria had been pretty awful the last time I had done it, so… Continue reading →

Circumnavigation, Fishing cabo, sailboat, sailing

Heading down the outside of the Baja coast – Part 1

April 6, 2024Matt Leave a comment

After leaving Ensenada, MQP (Maquinna Pt) and I headed south to Turtle Bay, a trip of 300nm and 3 nights. Last time I did this it was with Liz, so this was the first time I had done it single-handed,… Continue reading →

Circumnavigation, Fishing fishing, sailboat, sailing

San Diego and Ensenada

April 5, 2024Matt 1 Comment

I ended up in San Diego for about a month, which was mostly spent doing boat stuff. The last week or so I met my friend Kerri and went on her sweet beach cat which I made a video of,… Continue reading →

Circumnavigation mexico, sailboat, sailing

Channel Islands and San Diego

January 5, 2024Matt Leave a comment

I forgot to post this last update but here is a photo of Sooner in the sunset I mentioned in the last post, taken by MQP. Look at them red over greens Santa Rosa was a cool place – I… Continue reading →

Circumnavigation, Fishing channel islands, san diego

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Grizz and cubs. They are both very differently col Grizz and cubs. They are both very differently coloured so both probably from different dads (I just found out that Grizz can do this)

Also learned that hand stabilisation doesn't cut it from a boat 

#beautifulbc #bear
Fathom in front of K'we Fathom in front of K'we
Its that time of year again - Sooner put away and Its that time of year again - Sooner put away and I'm back driving boats, docks and spreadsheets for thr BC lodge
A random assortment of pictures from my month in S A random assortment of pictures from my month in San Blas

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