20·21 PANAMA POSSE
FLEET UPDATE 2021-02-06

 
“There’s probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there’s no law governing that history. It’s finders keepers.”–  Robert Ballard, Discoverer of the Titanic Wreck

THISLDU and SECOND WIND rafted up in Northern Costa Rica 

🇵🇦 PUERTO ARMUELLES, PANAMA 

This port of entry is currently only a port of exit for those who are northbound on the Pacific coast of Panama

MAMBO # 8 
Great music to listen to on the Panama Posse 

Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the 30s and decades later popularized by Pérez Prado in the big band style. It originated as a syncopated form of the danzón, known as danzón-mambo, Guajeos became the essence of the genre when it was played by big bands which leaned towards swing and jazz. By 1950 mambo had become a “dance craze” in the United States as its associated dance took over the East Coast thanks to Pérez Prado, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez and others.

Dámaso Pérez Prado  was a Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger who popularized the mambo in the 1950s.  His big band adaptation of  “Mambo No. 5” earned him the nickname “King of the Mambo”.  In 1955, Prado and his orchestra topped the charts in the US and UK. He frequently made brief appearances in films, primarily of the rumberas genre, and his music was featured in films such as La Dolce Vita.

He moved to Mexico where the developed this particular genre in multiple forms, including bolero-mambo (with María Luisa Landín), guaracha-mambo (with Benny Moré) and two forms of instrumental mambos he created. Prado moved back to Mexico in the 1970s, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1980. His son, Pérez Jr., continues to direct the Pérez Prado Orchestra in Mexico City to this day.

FFFUNY !

REMINDER 
PLEASE USE THE GESTALT THEORY

 absorbing information and sharing information in the Panama Posse has been empowered by this  

Here is a quick tip sheet on how GESTALT THEORY works:

Speak from your own experiences rather than giving advice or opinions

Use “I” statements instead of “You” statements –
IE: We sailed from A tp B and … this is what happened 
DON’T: “you should sail from A to B and you could do this … “

Don’ts speak in generalities, be specific share a relevant past experience

SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES

🇲🇽  ISLA ISABELLA, MX

Isla Isabela is so hard to describe, it’s like going to Jurassic Park. This paradise of volcanic origin is inhabited exclusively by birds and iguanas with no fear of predators. It can only be visited by boat and is now a national park. Its an up close and personal adventure with giant Frigates (wing span is up to 7 feet, they are giants) and blue footed boobies!! The Frigates nest in the trees/bushes and the boobies on the ground. Scott was able to land a fish on the way. Not much protection for anchorage so we had 3 restless sleepless nights but so worth it to see this magnificent island. Scott and Nick dove on the anchorage and lots of colorful fish. We will be posting more video/pictures. This is why we do what we do!!

Animal Cracker

 Isla Isabel National Park is a national park about 15 nm off the Mexican Mainnland in Nayarit

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

🇲🇽 SY Toketee entering Acapulco Bay, MX

🇰🇾 GRAND CAYMAN – SEVEN FATHOMS RUM TOUR

Great visit to the Cayman Distillery yesterday.  Definitely add this to the list when touring around Grand Cayman

Postcards from “HELL”

🇵🇦 Report from Bocas del Toro, Panama

Madawaska had so much fun and learned so much at the chocolate farm

The green-and-black poison dart frog, also known as the green-and-black poison arrow frog and green poison frog, is a brightly colored member of the order Anura native to Central America and northwestern parts of South America. This species has also been introduced to Hawaii.

Video of a Sloth in it’s natural environment
noted for their slowness of movement, they spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rain forests of South America and Central America

🇵🇦 SY Emmy Kate Panama Canal  

1000+  bird species in Panama

For tropical bird watching a vast amount of  bird biodiversity exists in Panama  with over 1000 bird species identified in the country, which is more than the United States and Canada combined.

Toucans are members of the Neotropical near passerine bird family Ramphastidae.

Papagayo Winds 

Here is what a typical Papagayo forecast between January and March looks like and below is a report of what can happen – GUST are forecast to 40 knots but they can be 10 knots higher than forecast in the area – one foot on the beach strategy is recommended – the weather seminar video is online under https://panamaposse.com/seminars

PAPAGAYO PASSAGE NOTES 

We left from Pier 32 in San Diego on December 19th. Doing a rather quick transit and hoping to be in Fort Lauderdale by the beginning of April. There are 4 of us. My grandfather, his brother, a friend of ours, and I. We are on a 1972 Bristol B40 that I have owned for just over 2 years now

 Please keep in mind that all of us onboard are quite inexperienced. I learned that similar too Tehuantepec, as most know, and I was aware but thought that we may be ok in the time frame we had; but stay close too shore.

As we had left Chiapas, the app for charts that we use stopped working and so we made the choice to stay further off-shore. This was a bad idea. As we battled the steady 35 knot winds for 2.5 days, we were also being pushed even further offshore and catching the winds at a wider spot than if we would have been closer too shore. Once we finally were within 40 miles of the shore, we were trying to beat right into it as steeply as we could to come as far East as the sails would allow. At the time, we were still too far South as well by about 17 miles. In the process of trying to head upwind our jib began too rip. Our Main had ripped a bit the day before so it was down and we were sailing solely off of our 135% genoa with the motor, unnecessarily but possibly gave us piece of mind, as again we are all not experienced sailors.

The other young man on the crew and I had been switching shifts every 1.5 hours for the past 2.5 days becuase the older gentleman on our crew had become quite seasick and were not coming out of the cabin and were not great helmsmen anyways in the conditions we were in. So, Harry and I fought it out for almost 3 days together. When the jib finally gave out completely, we tried fighting our way through with the motor. We were only making about 2 knots and bobbing around as you can imagine, but headed in the right direction none  the less. We had taken so much water on in the past few days that our cockpit had been full very often of water. At some point the water had leaked into both of the diesel tanks.

 It was too much for the water separator too handle and eventually shut down the motor. Our last option was too try and sail her in on the slightly ripped main alone. As most will know (we didn’t) in those conditions, we were basically hove-to with just the main. We had a bit of phone service then but were quickly being blown back out to sea. I was in touch with Ernesto telling him the situation and he had eventually sent the Coast Guard out.

We had called a MAYDAY on the radio while we still had contact and M/Y Maria sent out their 25′ jet drive tender too tow us into Flamingo Beach.

 On our way in they asked if we could leave the main up too try and help stabilize the boat. We did so, but when we entered into the bay it began too luff. While it was luffing we read 50 knots on the gauge  Harry and I tried our hardest too pull it down in time but there was no way. It disintegrated into shreds by the time we lowered it and almost took him overboard. Funny enough, during all of this, the person at the helm was hit in the face with a flying fish!! The tender was kind enough too tow us into the beach and made sure we were able too anchor safely in the still high winds that we were facing. Once anchored we spoke with Ernesto and told him that we were aware that Costa Rica makes you check in at a marina but we were not able too get there.

Dan was not happy and I have nothing against him but he was not helpful and told us when i called him too ask for help when we were in a dire situation, and all that he was worried about was if we had been in touch with Ernesto and if our paperwork was already in order on our way in.

His words were “just because you’re broken down, does not mean that our countries policies have changed.” I explained that we had already done what we needed too and that we were expected too arrive on this day, and that we were also not just “broken down” we were in some pretty big trouble at the time.

After arriving too the beach, Ernesto directed us to get off of the boat and into a hotel for the evening and he was able too send an agent to us to check into Immigration and the Port Captain. Customs was less receptive. Ernesto worked hard to try and get them too come inspect us at the anchorage but they wouldn’t. Ernesto also had sent the Coast Guard out too help us in our time of despair. We were able too get a mechanic too look at our boat in Flamingo Beach. His name was Mariscio and his phone number was +50686466628 . He was able too diagnose and get us back and running within the day for around $300. He got us running well enough to get us to our original destination of Marina Papagayo under our own power on a mild day, where customs finally checked us in and gave us our 90 day cruising permit.

Still have not found much in the way of sails here. I am leaning towards having 2nd hand sails shipped too us from Baconsails.com in Annapolis Maryland. This was our experience and if we can help anyone else in any way too avoid what happened too us we will be happy to do that.

Pilot Charts are focused on cruising conditions, there is a diagram for every month of the year for each section. They are on the Panama Posse site under each country example https://panamaposse.com/nicaragua

Every one of these maritime areas have a graph for every month. You can in this way utilize the graph to find out about the breezes and flows in every month.  Example Prevailing conditions in  Colombia – Caribbean in January

🇳🇮 RUM TOUR AT FLOR DE CAÑA NICARAGUA

Lisa sipping the 30 year old barrel aged treasure !

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PICTURE OF THE WEEK 

🇵🇦  Sunrise at Isla Perida, Panama. We are on the. way to Golfito, CR

Pairadice, Delta Swizzler and Alamos all easily across the bar it in to Bahia Del Sol.

Look at that face !
Followed by a special visitor a baby dududududududuu whale-shark

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Based on seasonal gathering spots here are the “sub pods” with line calls after the
main calls starting Mondays in November to save everyone’s time
(great suggestion Eric Sprezzatura)

REMINDER WEEKLY PANAMA POSSE LINE CALLS MONDAYS @15:30 UTC for CARIBBEAN  16:00 UTC for PACIFIC

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IT WOULD NOT BE A RALLY WITHOUT A CONTEST 

by the end of May 2021 we will announce the winners in these highly competitive fields

BIGGEST FISH CAUGHT

HIGHEST WIND RECORDED

BIGGEST MISHAP aka THE CAPTAIN RON AWARD

MOST UNWELCOME VISITOR ONBOARD

SPEEDY GONZALEZ AWARD

PANAMA POSSE YODA OF THE YEAR

PICTURE OF THE YEAR

GOOD SAMARITAN OF THE YEAR

CHOCOLATE TOURS IN BOCAS DEL TORO PANAMA 

Green Acres Chocolate tour in Bocas del Toro Panama @ Porras Lagoon.

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🇳🇮 Marina Puesta del Sol – Nicaragua

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