AWARD NOMINATIONS 🏆 2024-2025 SPIRIT OF EXPLORATION

AWARD NOMINATIONS 🏆 2024-2025
SPIRIT OF EXPLORATION

1)

SV REMEDY DOUBLES BACK OVERLAND TO NICARAGUA

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2)

SV WANDERLUST crew: Yoda, Kristin, and Fabio

STARS

SV WANDERLUST crew: Yoda, Kristin, and Fabio…>>>

3)

: Dominica waves

DONKEYS

SY JUBEL KYLE & LEAH

4)

MV NEXT CHAPTER crew on a tour in Grenada and enjoyed Monkeys, waterfalls, and a spice tour

5)

Travelling overland in Samoa, SV VIVA finds and decends into a sea trench

SY VIVA Pierre & Marie – Amel 52′

6)

SV KEKADA II takes a stopover in Norfolk island en route to New Zealand. BRAVO ZULU!

SV KEKADA II Don & Anja – Leopard 53’

7)

DELTA SWIZZLER MARK AND CINDY IN TEQUILA

8)

Women dancing in the communal hut.

TIDINGS OF JOY JEFF & JOY

9)

CAVU

David & Marla There is a water park in the anchorage here. You get to the end of the inflatable blob and people jump on it and launch you. There was no count down when the guys jumped for me so you don’t really know when you are getting launched.

SY CAVU David Marla Frank – Tartan 37′

10)

SV Remedy, SV Triaena, SV Sancerre making a unsuccessful provision run into the Pueblo of Bahia Honda.

At the local “shop”

Shore to bay view

Local piggies rummaging

Old School Communications

Off-the-beaten-path Bahía Honda is a secluded and picturesque bay on the Pacific coast of Panama, located in the Veraguas Province. It is known for its deep, well-protected anchorage, lush tropical surroundings.

Anchorage: Excellent holding with protection from swells and winds, making it a safe stop for cruisers heading along the Panamanian coast.

Surroundings: The area is surrounded by dense rain forest, small islands, and mangroves, providing a remote and wild cruising experience.

Local Community: The bay has a small fishing community, and some locals may paddle out to greet visiting boats, offering to trade fresh produce or seafood.

Wildlife: Due to its proximity to Coiba National Park, the waters around Bahía Honda are home to abundant marine life, including dolphins, turtles, and even whales during migration seasons.

SY REMEDY Natalie & Karl Robertson & Caine 45′

11)

MEETING THE GUNA YALA

It touched us deeply visiting this remarkable place.

The Guna people have maintained a strong cultural identity,

Visiting Guna Yala offers a rare opportunity to experience a way of life that has remained largely unchanged for centuries, surrounded by breathtaking natural beauty.

SY PATHFINDER JP & N – Lagoon 39′

12)

THE BIG ISLAND
KONA HAWAI’I

Sorry Fleet , we have missed a lot of calls! We spent the last month near Kona, Hawaii helping our friends at the coffee plantation, enjoying diving, hiking and Kilauea volcano eruptions (The last time fountains were as high were 65 years ago!).

Coffee as it grows in Hawaii

SY JOURNEY Anne & Remi – Manta 42′

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AWARD NOMINATIONS 🏆 2024-2025 🐊 MOST UNINVITED VISITORS

AWARD NOMINATIONS 2024-2025
MOST UNWELCOME / UNINVITED 🐊 VISITOR ONBOARD

1)

BIRDS NESTING ABOARD IN
COSTA RICA

BIRD NESTS

SV FIREFLY,
currently moored at Marina Papagayo in Costa Rica, recently had the
opportunity to have some visitors aboard that made themselves right at
home….and then up and left. No harm, no foul, and enjoyed being
witness to such a precious time in a birds life.

Brenda shares the story:

So
birds and boats, really a persistent task to prevent them from building
nest pooping all over the place, of course after a fresh wash.

A
couple of stories….So we overlooked the Great Kiskadee nest in our
anchor not really noticing it quick enough to get rid if it. So not
having any plans to go out, we watched as it grew large and then assumed
the eggs were laid as they would dive bomb us as we got too close. We
never saw the chicks but eventually they left and the nest was donated
to Neptune.

2)

MY NEXT CHAPTER Chris & Shawna & crew – Selene 59′

3)

Look closely. An unwanted guest. How in the world did a frog get on the boat. It’s been raining a lot but raining frogs?

SY REMEDY Natalie & Karl – Leopard 45’

4)

SV CARINTHIA spotted on the vessel next to us – on a closer look – a vulture seems like this black mast attracts as a perch a big old black vulture

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6)

Unwanted stowaway photo submission (if such category exists )

SY CANEL
Kathya & Jeff
Jeanneau 38

7)

MV MUIRGEN Scot and Laura Beebe 50′

8)

Places where you may see the swallow-tailed gull on passage JUBEL

9)

Three tired birds on the boom – 200 nm left to go to the Galapagos

All the best on SY AURA Birgitta & Lasse – OE32′

10)

here they come – the “invasion of marshmallows”

SY DAWN PATROL Aney Laney – Outbound 46′

11)

…After our head suddenly stopped working, we took it apart and found this unwelcome visitor jammed in the intake valve. We pulled him out and dropped him back into the sea where he belongs.

Regards,

SY BRIGADOON III Doug & Patty Kennedy Saga 43′

12)

3 BIRDS ON A SOLARPANEL

zero dark thirty – full frontal night assault –SY PATHFINDER JP& Nicole – Lagoon 39′

13)

SY PHOENIX Zack & – Balance 52′

14)

MY ALGONQUIN Diana & Lyle – Nordhavn 43′

15)

MOSQUITOES vs NO SEEMS

SERNEITY

16)

This California seal may have been barking “Permission to come aboard?” Without reply from the Captain the seal got comfortable on the swim step.

SV WINE N DOWN Steve – Robertson and Cane 58′

17)

SY DO THE THING

Marjolaine & Francois- Dufor 43′

18)

Labelling these “Unwanted and Uninvited”

SY ROXXY Dennis & Kelly – Beneteau 52’

19)

Wasps making a nest on the underside of Maison de Sante’s solar panel….no thank you!

SY MAISON DE SANTÉ Nicole & Keenan- Cal 46′

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