Our sail was uneventful until we approached the coast of Panama during the second night. Scattered thunderstorms were forecast and we dodged most of them following our radar. Adding interest to the task was the confounding factor of the heavy shipping into and out of the Panama Canal. We were dodging both with Jupiter's Smile watching the storms and Ron on Dawn Trader using his AIS to identify the ships.
We approached the channel to Porvenir at dawn just as a squall was passing by so we turned tail and headed to an alternate, less stormy channel. We had plenty of time to play with so we sailed in this new direction, away from our destination. Then the edge of a squall caught us and we both had to reduce sail fast. The engines were now on as we negotiated the reef, skirted between xxx and yyy and then aimed for Porvenir.
We finally anchored and dinghyed ashore to check into Panama and Guna Yala.
After checking in we motored over to the West Lemmons to anchor near Ken and Marilyn on Dream Ketcher. We had met them almost three years ago in the Bay of Cholon. They were leaving the next day so it was a short afternoon reunion with promises made to see each other in Colorado in the Fall.
We had some time before "the kids" arrived so we made our way to the East Lemmons to explore some more.
Then it was time to put in at Carti to await their arrival.
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