Turtle Mail

As we continue to explore the Las Perlas islands in the Panama Gulf, we pulled anchor and motored as there was no wind and set anchor at bea...

After motoring for the entire 1.5-day voyage from Naranjo Cove, the wind finally started to blow - 5 minutes before anchoring! We are now in...

We left Isla Cebaco (Panama) a little late yesterday, not till 13:00, which meant we were a bit short on time to reach our next destination ...

We returned to the private Isla Cavada (Panama) as we can get internet there and have spent the last 2 days cleaning, airing out, and removi...

Time for more exploring, so we looked at the charts and decided to take the 4-hour trip to the group of islands called Islas Secas on June t...

After a great weekend, we were once again back at Sea Turtle in Pedregal where over a few days we did some boat chores (replacing the broke...

Our friend Jack of SV Moonraker is here in Panama involved in a teak plantation and invited us for a tour. He picked us up at the marina on...

With 52 waypoints from previous sailors plugged into our GPS, Sea Turtle and MV Hobo headed out May 31st mid-morning for Pedregal (near Da...

On Friday, May 27th, we upped anchor at 05:15 and motored out of Golfito (Costa Rica) heading to Panama. Virtually no wind, so motor-sailed....

It's finally time to leave Golfito and Costa Rica behind. Unfortunately, I don't have too many good memories of Costa Rica because o...

Our track on the chart showed a zig zag line as we were trying to avoid the storm cells. One formed right over us and we took a tack which I...

Off we go to try and find a good anchorage along this Costa Rican coast. They seem to be few and far between. We filled up with dinghy gasol...

At 06:30 this morning, we left for Quepos, about 32 miles from Herradura. After anchoring, we were asked to move to a more secure spot (N09°...

We decided to leave the Gulf of Nicoya and head SE once again. At 10:15 we pulled anchor and motor-sailed about 4 hours to Bahia Herradura w...

We picked up Larry and Lena of MV Hobo and their dinghy with Sea Turtle early this morning and motored the short distance from Islas Tortu...

We made an easy dinghy landing on shore today. The white sand beach here is finally what we were expecting to see in Costa Rica (but not as ...

12:15. Off to Islas Tortugas. A bit of breeze blowing. A nice easy sail. Three hours later we were just about to drop the anchor. Jordan had...

Yesterday we walked along a trail of Costa Rica that leads out to the point and part way along the beach, seeing and hearing several parrots...

Now past the gap winds, we continued to motor-sail SE on our over-night journey to Bahia Ballena in Costa Rica's Gulf of Nicoya. Jordan ...

As we disliked the constant winds and we found nothing of interest at Bahia Potrero (Costa Rica), we decided to motor around the point to th...