FLEET UPDATE 2024-05-19

6) INSPIRATION: 
 THE PERFECT BOAT

John on SY COURAGE  shares :

As
we end the season, I thought I would leave you with one small story
referencing an article about the perfect boat that to me sums up a big
part of what this adventure with the Panama Posse has become to Kristine
and me. First, I offer some background before you read the article.
Thank you everyone for being part of our adventure across oceans and
seas. We wouldn’t have done it without you, and we will see you out
there again where the coconuts grow …background… I grew up with a
WWII Navy destroyer radarman as a grandpa, who later became commodore of
the San Diego Yacht Club. Bigger than life metaphorically and
physically – he would backstroke with a 55 pound anchor on his chest to
place it just where he wanted it! His dream was to travel the oceans in
peacetime rather than war. So he devoted ten years during my childhood
and built a Westsail 32 in his backyard. That formative exposure is why I
studied mechanical engineering. We spent decades sailing out of San
Diego to discover new anchorages and make memories. He left a few
heirlooms for me in a wooden treasure chest, and the article below was
framed to highlight what it meant to him. I thought you might share
similar thoughts about boats. I truly loved his boat, “Sosiego,” but he
wouldn’t sell it to me. “Go make your own memories and don’t relive
mine,” he said. Wise man. Enjoy the article! It is a picture of the
article.

An old article that inspired generations of seafarers in search of the Perfect Boat.

SY COURAGE 🇺🇸 John & Kristine – Tartan 4100

Thank you for Sharing your LOVE of the water !

 7) SHARING YOUR ADVENTURES  
is the heart and soul of the Panama Posse 

Please
share pictures of your adventures, your award entries/nominations, your
breathtaking sunsets, and picturesque anchorages on our group
communications platform for others to enjoy in real time and/or email
Maurisa at editor@panamaposse.com
to share in the upcoming newsletter.  Maurisa is a sailor among
us.  She is part of the Ocean Posse crew and enjoys writing fun and
helpful updates to the Panama Posse. 

Ziggy and Zoey are loving having an almost private beach at Red Frog!🥰

8) POSSE PERK: 

BEING PART OF A COMMUNITY OF VOYAGERS:

REFLECTIONS FROM SEASON 7
  

A MESSAGE FROM MV SUNDOWNER:

Fleet.
We can not say thank you all enough for the opportunity to be a part of
the Panama Posse Fleet 2023-2024. To say it was an extraordinary,
wonderful experience would be an understatement. We’ve learned so much
in our first season with the Posse, but the best lesson that we have
learned is that you are never alone in the Mariner community. Thank you,
Captain Dietmar, and the awesome Posse staff, for a season we will
never forget. Thank you, too, to the entire fleet. The wisdom shared,
the comradery, and time shared will forever remain in our hearts. To
those we met along the way, we look forward to seeing you again. To
those we have yet to meet in person, we look forward to our first
meeting.

Fair Winds and Following Seas

The crew of Sundowner

Lynn, Jeff, Marcus, and Lacey

MY SUNDOWNER 🇺🇸 Jeffrey & Lynn – Californian 50′

A MESSAGE FROM MV SUMMERBREEZE:

I would say that I will miss you all terribly. But I’m not gonna say that.

I
hope that I don’t miss any of you ……. somewhere down the road or should
I say in some ocean somewhere. It has been my humble privilege to have
sailed with some of you. I hope it will be my great honor to sail with
more of you in the future.

Until
then, Fairwinds and following seas, until we finally do meet and get
together or meet again and get together to clink our glasses and say ,

“Slainte Mhave”

(I’m Scottish 😁)

MV SUMMERBREEZE 🇺🇸 Kurtis – Bestway 46′

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10) FORMER PRISON ON ISLA SAN LUCAS 🇨🇷 COSTA RICA

IS NOW A NATIONAL PARK

Modern
history has seen many prison islands turned into national parks: The
Infamous Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, and a MUST SEE along the route
Isla Coiba to name two.  Travelers visit these once atrocious,
notoriously brutal places in search of history and natural beauty.
While these islands have been ‘abandoned’ by human dominion, they
have been reclaimed by nature and bio-diversity is thriving.  One
such ‘Prison gone National Park’, albeit a little less know, is Isla San
Lucas in central Costa Rica on the Pacific Coast.

https://ticotimes.net/2021/09/26/costa-ricas-san-lucas-island-a-former-prison-that-is-a-national-park

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/isla-de-san-lucas-la-isla-del-diablo

Recently, MV TIDINGS OF JOY visited the park and shares:

We
anchored at Isla San Lucas for 3 nights, went ashore, and toured the
prison.  We anchored in 25’ with good holding and had a very calm
and pleasant stay.

 The
prison operated from 1873-1991.  Not long after it began
operation, the San Lucas Island prison began to earn its reputation as
one of the harshest prisons in the world, with reports of inhumane
conditions, torture, and even murder surfacing regularly. In some cases,
inmates were subjected to inhumane practices such as being put in deep
pits of lime and sewage for days on end. In short, inmates who were
sentenced to the facility viewed it as a death sentence.

I
found the place to be really eerie and unsettling.  From the old
graffiti in the deteriorating cells to the clumps of rusted trash and
bed frames scattered around the grounds the place just creeped me out.
We walked one of the trails on the island after the tour and even
that I found creepy.  I’m still glad we went and found the place to
be a very interesting stop as well as a very nice anchorage.  

The old prison at Isla San Lucas, CR in the northern reaches of Gulfo de Nicoya

MY TIDINGS OF JOY 🇺🇸 Jeff & Joy – DeFever 52′

11) HURRICANE SEASON STARTS 🌀MAY 15 

THE FIRST SYSTEM OF THE SEASON FORMED & FIZZLED 

As
of May 15th, hurricane season begins and the first system of the season
is forming.  Weekly forecasts are available through NOAA.
Season Forecasts are released by different organizations every
year.

• Colorado state university has released their forecast already: https://tropical.colostate.edu/Forecast/2024-04.pdf
• The seasonal forecast will be released in a week or so. https://www.noaa.gov/media-advisory/noaa-to-announce-2024-atlantic-hurricane-season-outlook

The pacific weather hawks are busy and odds of La Niña developing in June-August 2024 have risen to 55% 

Gather resources, read them, watch them, and be prepared to be safely out of harms way as hurricane season unfolds. 

BIG SOUTHERN SWELLS – WHEN SURFS UP  
MANY WEST COAST ANCHORAGES BECOME UNTENABLE !!!

12) GOOD NAUTICAL: 
ISLA ESCUDO DE VERAGUAS 🇵🇦 PANAMA

09° 5.4139′ N 081° 33.9225′ W 

SV JUBEL’s beach set up in  Escudo de Veraguas

Isla
Escudo de Veraguas can be an excellent stop coming to or from Bocas del
Toro. There are two areas you can anchor on the south side of the
island. 

1. At the very west, the anchorage is a little easier with a sandy bottom. Anchor in 10-14 feet of water. 
2. The
   very eastern side of the island has some rocks to avoid on your way in
   but you can get closer to shore and it gives you easier access to the
   north side. 

The
middle of the island has rock piles and reef so avoid the center in
your vessel. All along the south side of the island are various small
beaches that feel completely untouched and each has a different vibe.
These are very fun to explore. Be careful in your dinghy on the north
side as there are only a few passable areas as it is mostly shallow
coral. If swell is up, you may need to skip this place. The anchorage
can get very rolly with some swell but if conditions are calm, it’s an
amazing place to spend some time. 

https://goodnautical.com/panama/anchorage/escudo-de-vergaras

https://goodnautical.com/panama/anchorage/escudo-de-vergaras-sw

The water has always been crystal clear for us and this was our 3rd visit.

SY MAISON DE SANTÉ 🇺🇸 Nicole & Keenan –  Cal 46′

Isla Escudo de Veraguas eastern reef  Panama 

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15) EMANCIPATION DAY CELEBRATION

🇰🇾  CAYMAN ISLANDS

Earlier this month SV Yo-D-Yo
had the good fortune to be on Cayman Island when they were celebrating
an imporant and historic event: Emanciparion Day.  Their account of
the event follows:

Dave
and I happened to be in  George Town,  Cayman Island on May
6, 2024, the day they were celebrating their emancipation. A bit of
history from he Cayman Times newspaper, written by Christopher Tobutt.

“On
the morning of May 3, 1835, a momentous event unfolded in the Cayman
Islands. Captain Anthony Pack stood on a low wall overlooking Hog Sty
Bay and read a proclamation that would forever change the course of
Caymanian history. The Governor of Jamaica, Lord Sligo, was present to
emphasize the message: “You who have been slaves and lately acting as
apprentices, are by this decision made absolutely and unconditionally
free.” With those words, Cayman’s formerly enslaved population became
one of the first truly liberated black communities in the Caribbean”

While
the rest of the region still suffered under an apprenticeship scheme
described as “slavery by another name,” Caymanians were already free.

On
6 May 2024 Emancipation Day was celebrated again,  for the first
time in 62 years, with a grand and spectacular display of all facets of
Cayman Culture, on Seafarers Way, overlooking Hog Sty Bay. There were
wonderful displays from each district, and ladies and gentleman dressed
in traditional-style beautiful Caymanian clothes.”

There
were performances by local school children. Many local women
demonstrated traditional crafts, such as needle work, making rugs from
torn cloth, using the Cayman Silver Thatch Platting making hats, making
bags, making purses and whatever they can make. 

In the evening they had a fantastic fireworks show and Drone show.

We were lucky to be  a part of this celebration.

Fireworks display capped off the celebration

Emancipation day was a prideful celebration

SY YO-D-YO 🇺🇸  David & Mary – Hunter 45’

16) MEET THE FLEET  

SV SEAGLUB

Captain Chris

Chris Glubka, captain of SV SEAGLUB grew
up landlocked and was constantly told stories of the sea by his Naval
grandfather and read pirate stories from his father. Having moved near
the sea during middle school, Chris quickly took to the ocean and found
himself aboard his first boat soon after secondary school. Later in life
Chris found SEAGLUB and she has now been home for over a decade.
In this time he has sailed throughout Central America, French
Polynesia, Fiji and New Zealand. SeaGlub has traveled over over 2,000nm
just within Fijian waters and marked and saved each track in and out of
dozens and dozens of reef passes and anchorages. All are available
through the Posse organizations. Chris invites all of you to be active
in the Line chat group and look him up when you arrive in Fiji. Fair
winds and following seas to all…

SY SEA GLUB 🇺🇸 Chris 

 

 

17)  SAFETY ALERT ⚠️

REGULAR VISUAL CHECKS OF KEY PLACES WILL

KEEPS SYSTEMS TIP TOP AND THE BOAT AFLOAT

Some
people describe cruising as ‘doing boatwork in beautiful places’ and
they find themselves toiling on their vessel maintenance regularly while
voyaging.  Others cruise hard seasonally and then put their boat
up tackling many maintenance issues during the off season.  NOTE: 
while this regular maintenance is an important and time consuming part
of boat ownership, it does not take the place of making regular visual
checks of key aspects of ones vessel.   It is a wise mariner who
regularly checks lines for chafe and bilges for any signs of
leakage. 

A visual check of the bilge following a sail.

QUESTION: Why is there oil in the bilge?

ANSWER: Oil cap worked its way loose. Fortunately, caught it early while the oil is still full.

Making a habit of visually checking ones vessel can make the difference of staying ahead of a problem and warding off an issue.

18)  MUST SEE: 

🇯🇲  SUNKEN PIRATE CITY AT PORT ROYAL

“The
earth opened and swallowed many people, before my face, and the sea I
saw came mounting in over the wall, upon which I concluded it impossible
to escape.”

Edmund
Heath, survivor and eyewitness to the devastating 1692 earthquake wrote
these words in a letter from the safety of a ship moored in the city’s
harbor, overlooking the ruins of his city. Port Royal, once called “the
most wicked and sinful city in the world” was famous the world over for
its booze—the blackout-inducing Kill Devil Rum, its pirates, and its sex
workers. Needless to say, when the city was nearly destroyed, there
were some parties that saw it as a convenient solution to an ugly
problem.

The
English and their pirate friends were relatively new to the area.
Jamaica had been held by the Spanish since Columbus first declared it
“the fairest island eyes have beheld” in 1494. Lacking gold or other
obvious exploitable wealth, the Spanish held it but did not focus much
energy there. It came under English power in 1655, after Cromwell sent
English raiders to invade and capture the Spanish stronghold at
Hispaniola (now Haiti and Dominican Republic, then the center of Spanish
trade in the Caribbean). Cromwell’s men failed spectacularly at taking
Hispaniola and turned to Jamaica as a second choice, better-than-nothing
option.

Located
on the southeast coast of Jamaica, the natural harbor at Port Royal
became the center of English life in Jamaica. By the late 1600s it had
become one of the largest European cities in the new world, second only
to Boston. It had also become the infamous home of pirates, sex workers,
and Englishmen on the make. Far from home, they made their livings off
of the slave trade, slave labor in plantations, and the money that the
pirates brought in from their looting forays against the Spanish.

It
may be seen as an indicator of the caliber of vice in Port Royal that
in 1675 the notorious pirate Henry Morgan became the Lieutenant
Governor. In fact, Morgan began to crack down on overt piracy as the
grand era of privateering he had been part of began to enter its waning
phase. He died just four years before the earthquake struck and was
buried in the Palisadoes cemetery.

On
the morning of June 7, 1692, a massive earthquake estimated at a 7.5
magnitude hit the island. The city, largely built over sand, suffered
instantly from liquefaction, with buildings, roads, and citizens sucked
into the ground. Geysers erupted from the earth, buildings collapsed,
and finally the city was hit by tsunami waves, dragging what had not
been destroyed out to sea. In the end, some 33 acres of the city
disappeared under water, four of the five forts were destroyed or
submerged, and 2000 people were killed. The cemetery where Captain
Morgan was buried slipped into the sea, its bodies floating up to mix
with the freshly dead.

Even
before the earth stopped shaking, locals reported that the looting
began, one writing: “Immediately upon the cessation of the extremity of
the earthquake, your heart would abhorr to hear of the depredations,
robberies and violences that were in an instant committed upon the place
by the vilest and basest of the people; no man could call any thing his
own, for they that were the strongest and most wicked seized what they
pleased….”

As
news spread of the destruction of Port Royal, it was picked up as a
cautionary tale and a sure sign of divine retribution for the lewd
behavior of the pirates and sex workers, the pretensions and wealth of
the gentry of the town, or the sins of slavery, depending on the city
and the audience.

But
at any rate, the earthquake did not end Port Royal’s wicked ways, nor
its relationship with vice or with pirates who continued to stop by for
another 50 years while they preyed on Spanish ships. In fact, in 1720,
John “Calico Jack” Rackham was hanged at Gallows-Point in Port Royal by
order of pirate hunter—and former privateer—Woodes Rogers (best known
for his rescue of the castaway Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for
Robinson Crusoe).

Since
then the city has been racked by fire, earthquake, and hurricane
several times. The English finally decided to close its naval station at
Port Royal, effectively closing it for business, and most residents
left. In 1951, what was left of Port Royal was hit by Hurricane Charlie,
destroying more property and leaving only a few of the original
buildings standing.

Today
most of the remains of the 17th century city lie under up to 40 feet of
water. Up until the 1900s visitors reported on the city still visible
below the waves and the eerie sensation of floating over the rooftops.
Since the 1950s, divers have been exploring and cataloging the submerged
city. In 1969, Edwin Link discovered the most famous artifact: a pocket
watch dated 1686, stopped at exactly 11:43.

More
recently the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University
and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust conducted underwater
archaeological examinations, ending in 1990. Their explorations have
brought to light artifacts of 17th century life rarely seen. Because of
the nature of the disaster, which left many buildings intact and more or
less undisturbed, it has been compared to Pompeii for its
archaeological wonders and was a designated National Heritage Site in
1999.

https://panamaposse.com/pirate-city-at-port-royal

Special
access from the government is required to dive in the restricted Port
Royal ruins area, but many of the items recovered over the years can be
seen at the Museums of History and Ethnography at the Institute of
Jamaica in Kingston.

 

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• Pass on relevant information to help fellow participants in a timely manner without personal opinions
• Identify, document and reduce risks
• Allow for flexibility and reduce pressures due to schedules