I left Jax in May. Sailed down to
Miami. From there to the Jumeintos @ Sharks Cay. To the windless
Passage, motoring. Around
Jamaica, and then turned for
Panama. Unfortunately the
wind was coming from S.W. so we stopped in Cartegena. Then on to
Panama.
Cost to transit the
canal depends on how you go about it. My cost was $1100 by using Stanley as a
broker. You can save
money by doing it yourself, but it was well worth eliminating the chaos for several hundred dollars extra.
We got linehandlers from the maritime academy for the cost of their bus ticket. Stanley supplied everything else, and then picked it up at the other end.
A lot of cruisers line handle for eachother for the experience. It was a piece of cake, and if I was to do it again. I would use Stanley, and the students again.......
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