Turtle Mail

On the road again... With Ruby (Jordan named her) our little iron pony all saddled up, we started our inland journey today, riding from...

Jordan and I celebrated our 7th anniversary in a unique way. Tripp of the Puerto Amistad Marina held a "crawfish bake" that we at...

We are moored at Puerto Amistad Marina (Bahia de Caraquez) in Ecuador. The town of Amistad has all your basic needs covered, but to do a maj...

Winds throughout the early hours were very light and changeable. Going was slow with a lot of tacking and a bit of back tracking. Started ...

We had a visitor today - 1 lone dolphin. This is unusual as most dolphins travel in numbers in a pod. We also had a wakeup call today. You...

Jordan at bow with breeze blowing We're both amazed at how fully charged our batteries have kept with our two 80-watt solar panels ...

We tacked at 23:45 last night with abating winds, and an hour later there was no wind at all. So we continued in a westerly direction under ...

We've been going generally in the same direction since 14:00 yesterday. But we tacked at 10:30, with sails still balanced. We are sure h...

We tacked to the west shortly after midnight as the winds were now taking us close to land. Sea Turtle is now under balanced sails, giving u...

Yesterday Jordan had a hard time getting caught up on sleep which was unusual as he can generally fall asleep as soon as his head hits the p...

We had horrendous rain today. A real downpour. Storm cells were everywhere and we were both soaked but not cold. It was raining so hard that...

It was calm and the autopilot worked occasionally, but not very often. After doing shifts hand-steering, Jordan finally turned off the motor...

Around 02:00 when it started to rain and I did my quarterly hour check, it was discovered that the autopilot was not working and we were off...

We hoisted anchor from Las Brisas de Amador at Isla Perico (near Panama City) at 08:30 today, under sail, for what we think will be about a ...

As soon as our company left, we needed to get things ready to leave Panama for the passage to Ecuador. First project was to get the boat out...

On July 21st (Jordan's birthday), his close friend Marlow arrived for a week's visit. He rented a car for the time he was here and s...

We've been playing tourist a bit lately. We visited the "walking street" (no traffic allowed) and noticed many of the Kuna Ind...

We've been anchored outside Panama City at Isla Perico for 21 days now. We decided to leave for the day to make water as the bay here is...

I've not been well lately. Feeling nauseous and been getting excruciating abdominal pains just like I had once in Golfito, Costa Rica. B...

It's time to leave the gorgeous Las Perlas islands and start towards a Panama City anchorage. As we were getting ready to leave Contador...