We left Cabo this morning. We are having a rough ride across the Sea of Cortez to the mainland. Seas are 8 to 10 ft with 20 knots of wind on our Port 1/4 ie from aft of center.

Not dangerous just uncomfortable. We'll arrive at Isla Isabella tomorrow mid day.

We made it through the night last night OK. Karen was going to stand watches but it was too rough so Dan Diaz and myself took turns. We had 3 hours watches then through the night we each did one 6 hour watch.

Fortunately things calmed down last night after the

We are cruising off the coast of mainland Mexico near Barra Navidad. We hope to go to the Marina there today if not we'll anchor at Tenacatita and do the jungle dingy cruise. The weather has been very good since the Mar 2. Today is overcast with light winds and

We have completed our stay at Barra Navidad and the Grand Bay Hotel Marina. We are now anchored at Tenacatita. We have posted 38 photo's and first three sailplans to our web site www.trekshare.com/members/adventure, check it out.

We thanks Colin Murphy from our crew last year for helping with the internet

We are in Ixtapa, a really nice resort area. We are in a Marina that has crocodiles, no divers will work underwater on your boat due to the crocks. We saw one crock yesterday laying along the shore right by a restaurant. We have heard a lot of stories about

Well we have made it to Acapulco marking the end to leg#2. We had no issues and no fish. We only had 123 miles to get from Ixtapa to Acapulco so we did a slow cruise overnight, actually arrived in Acapulco before sunrise so I slowed way down to 4.5

We are in Acapulco. This is the first place in Mexico the Admiral says she would come back to although she is not ready to commit to a date and she would only come via airplane! It may be some time before we are back in Mexico.

Acapulco reminds me of

Our new crew of Roy, Ed and Bob arrived late last night from St Louis. They made good connections except the last one and were about 1 1/2 hrs late. We checked out of Club de Yates Acapulco at 1000 and departed Acapulco at 1030. All is well aboard Adventure.

We are in Huatulco getting ready to head out for Costa Rico across the feared Gulf of Tehuantepec. We have a good weather forecast and will be able to short cut the trip some due to light winds.

We caught an 8 ft sailfish yesterday and lost another fish. Bob

We are anchored off Manuel Antonio National Park which is near Quepos, Costa Rico. The park is very well visited and well managed. We kayaked ashore today and yesterday. Yesterday we went swimming and walked a little in the park. Today we got up early and were ashore by 7AM

We are in Drake Bay in middle of Costa Rico. We visited the Bay on the 1st then Cano Island yesterday.

The Bay has a number of hotels, some very nice and some very budget. The Drake Bay lodge is really upscale and very nice, great diving place and place

We went for a long dingy ride today to see the mangrove swamp like we have in Fla. What we do not have in Fla are 8 ft waves entering the swamps. The waves would break when they came over shallow water. We had a chart of the area and

We will be transiting the Panama Canal Friday morning, Apr 14th. We hopefully will enter the Miraflores locks between 7AM and 11AM, we'll enter the first set of locks on the Atlantic side the Gatun locks around 2 to 6PM. We'll try to send another email tomorrow when we know

Well we have left Costa Rica and are off Panama listening to some Toby Keith and Tina Turner (singing Your the Best). We'll be at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal Wednesday morning. We enjoyed our time in Golfito, Costa Rica. Golfito is a small village that used to

e have listed

an internet link for the Panama Canal http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html that has 3 different live web cams set up through out the canal. You can watch boats lock through the Panama Canal.

We'll let you all know when we are scheduled to go through the canal and you can watch on

Cruising off Panama, we are seeing lots of ships coming from the Panama Canal headed North. Have 4 to 6 in contact all the time, it will be interesting tonight. We can see the ships on radar when they are 20 to 40 miles out. The clouds are also showing

We had one of my best days fishing ever yesterday. We caught and cleaned 9 yellowfin tuna and one Bonito, ate one last night. We lost one tuna at the gaff. We caught the fish during a two hr period and at times were catching one every 5 minutes. We

Well we made it to the Panama Canal. We are at Flamenco Marina at the Pacific entrance to the canal. We had a rough night last night after catching all the fish. The wind built up to 25 kts on our nose. Meaning we were heading right into 25 kt

We will be transiting the Panama Canal Friday morning, Apr 14th. We hopefully will enter the Miraflores locks between 7AM and 11AM, we'll enter the first set of locks on the Atlantic side the Gatun locks around 2 to 6PM. We'll try to send another email tomorrow when we know

We are in the Panama Canal, we began our transit at 730 this morning after getting ready for a 530 departure we were delayed 2 hrs by the schedule. Our pilot boarded and we waited another 1 hr, we actually began at 0900 and were in the Milaflores lock at