OCEAN POSSE PERK:

BUNDLED C’S

(COMMUNICATION, COMRADERY, COMMUNITY)

Some Ocean Posse Perks don’t fit into one liners.  Some are the product of the fleet and the way the Posse is purposely set up.  Hence “The Bundled C’s”: this perk is really the result of the serendipitous, inner workings of many Posse Perks which include Communication, Comradery, and Community.

The Ocean Posse is a community of voyagers on their own schedules.  Each member participates in one or all of several format options for communication undeniably developing comradery over the course of their conversations, meet ups, shared anchorages, sunsets, and information exchanges.  This week was one of many examples between three vessels each in a different part of the ocean along their voyage connecting over where one might drop their hook after crossing into Panamanian Pacific waters from Costa Rican waters.

When a vessel checks out of Costa Rica in Golfito the authorities expect that, weather permitting, the vessel will then leave Costa Rican waters without stopping.  Leaving Golfito, Costa Rica for Panama vessels go south to round Punta Burica and east into Panamanian waters.  Punta Burica protects the waters and islands to the east from a lot of weather making for a pleasant cruise out of Costa Rica into Panama.  Many vessels will tuck into one of the small, less travelled, and spectacular islands of Western Panama en route east to Panama City.

Today, there are a dizzying amount of chat groups out there for wherever you are..  The Ocean Posse uses the LineAp to have a focused, real time format for communicating among the fleet.  General communication is usually short lest people take their conversations directly to one another.  As rounding Punta Burica is a milestone along the Pacific Central American route, this week MV PAUSE reported :

Just rounding Punta Burica and are now in Panama from West Coast Cost Rica, headed to Isla Parida for the night. It has been pretty much non stop rain for 4 or 5 days now but fortunately no lightning.

This message came as an update on their progress.  Fellow fleet member SV RAAJA replied from further east:

I spent several days anchored off of Isla Gomez. It is a tiny uninhabited island with a beautiful beach. Highly recommended if you are headed for Parida!

Another vessel SV JUBEL who spent time cruising this area last season replied from the north side of Panama:

 Second this

MV PAUSE apparently swayed and please with the recommendations:

Just dropped the hook at Isla Gomez. Beautiful

 

THANKS FOR BUNDLING THE C’S TOGETHER & ENJOY THE ISLANDS!

MV PAUSE 🇺🇸 Beth & Larry – Nordhavn 55′, SV RAAJA 🇺🇸 Skip – J boat 46’, & SY JUBEL 🇨🇦 Leah & Kyle – Gulfstar 44′