20·21 PANAMA POSSE
FLEET UPDATE 2020-12-30
HAPPY NEW YEAR !

SY ORION Patrick & Lisa   part of the south bound GOLD RUNNERS 💰  pod heading from Florida towards Panama

Anchored off Puerto Morelos last night, in 12 feet of water. Was a bit bumpy, as there  was only a shallow reef between us and the Western Caribbean. Nice place for a short stop, but wouldn’t want to be here in a blow from the North or East. Moved to the El CID Marina 2 miles to the south. Already cheap at $1 per foot, but going for the Panama Posse 20% discount!

Marina el Cid, Cancun sponsors the Panama Posse  

BIGGEST FISH CAUGHT ENTRY   

Here they are….attached….I also added a wonderful and very difficult to catch Golden Striped Snapper I spearfished a week ago.

Regards

Saverio & Rosanna 

SV LADY BLUES

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UPDATE PANAMA POSSE CONVOYS & SECURITY PROTOCOL

The following document outlines best practices and security concerns in
PIRATE Prone waters and set’s out security measures for convoys.

This document has been shared with various government agencies and represent a process by which vessels can organize into convoys.

There are 4 main sections

•     Overview
•     General Safety and Security
•     Vessel Security
•     Convoys

View the Security document please follow this link >>

To express your convoy interest please email security@panamaposse.com with your vessel name – please review the security document first.

Here is the private link for you to view the Route Planning Seminar covering 
Barra de Navidad – Northern Costa Rica –>

Captain Ron mishap award applicant: blown out head strap attaching head of genoa to the furler at the top of the mast

Chris & Tara Lee  SY SEAGLUB

 PANAMA POSSE  “PODS”  

PANAMA POSSE pods based on your cruising plans
 
💰 🍹🌿 ☠️ 🥥☸️ 🦜🌊 🏝️

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)

To add your designation to you LINE display name

1) to find your emoji and use it, copy them form the bottom legend of this page
https://panamaposse.com/2020-2021-vessels

2) edit your display name using the GEAR icon within LINE  and paste or insert your EMOJI

PICTURE OF THE WEEK 

Kenneth and Dale – Riverrafting
SLOW DANCER ARRIVED IN JAMAICA !

WEEKLY PICTURES

MY ALAMOS Xmas Decorations

MY HO’OKIPA at anchor, sunrise underway and a yellowfin tuna

SY PILIALOHA
Holiday wishes from Hawai’i

Rick & Maria

MY CONTEXT
Glad to be back in Panama !

SYO2 hunting down the Internet from a DINGHY

SY SASSAFRASS 
Rainbow at view and view of anchorage

MY  TENNIE ANN
Michael & Tamara
flying the Panama Posse burgee and view of anchorage

MY DELTA SWIZZLER
SUNSET ALERT

CARINTHIA facing fog near Puerto Angel, MX

MY SPREZZATURA
Xmas Decorations and Sunset

SY MOONRISE 
Stephen & Ana Veronica in Marina Chahue getting their burgee and 2019-2020 swag

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

NICARAGUA IN GOOD NAUTICAL 

ENTRY RESTRICTIONS NICARAGUA  
you need a valid PRC test 72 hours prior to entry to Nicaragua

UPDATES ON ENTRIES 
PANAMA POSSE NICARAGUA QUARANTINE UPDATES >>
 

QUARANTINE UPDATES  
 Keep checking this section for most recent updates  ...more >>>

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163 VESSELS HAVE SIGNED UP  ALREADY >>

See the faces of the 20·20 Panama Posse, SEE WHO IS ON THE ROSTER >>>

MY DOMINO >>

Here is the link to Past and Present Participant Websites and Blogs. 
Lot’s of goodness here ...more >>>
 

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

SHORE TRIP EXCURSION TO OAXACA 

MONTE ALBAN HISTORIC SITE 
FROM MARINA CHAHUE

Monte Albán is a large  archaeological site in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The site is located on a low mountainous range rising above the plain in the central section of the Valley of Oaxaca. Located at 17°02.7833 N  096°45.9533 W

The partially excavated civic-ceremonial center of the Monte Albán site is situated atop an artificially leveled ridge. It has an elevation of about 1,940 m (6,400 ft) above mean sea level and rises some 400 m (1,300 ft) from the valley floor, in an extremely defensible location. In addition to the monumental core, the site is characterized by several hundred artificial terraces, and a dozen clusters of mounded architecture covering the entire ridgeline and surrounding flanks.

The monumental center of Monte Albán is the Main Plaza, which measures approximately 300 meters by 200 meters. The site’s main civic-ceremonial and elite-residential structures are located around it or in its immediate vicinity.

It was not until 1931 that large-scale scientific excavations were undertaken, under the direction of Mexican archaeologist Alfonso Caso.  Over the following eighteen years excavations of large sections within the monumental core of the site revealed Much of what is visible today and is open to the public.

Symmetry was not a major concern for the layout of Monte Albán plaza. Although the angles within the plaza are not perfect 90-degree corners, the plaza appears to be a rectangle without actually being so. The structures are not laid out in a symmetrical fashion, as the distances between the structures vary greatly from building to building. Construction methods used for orientation changed as Monte Albán expanded.   Thick walls were often used in construction, as well as sloped sides when constructing tall / larger structures.

Besides being one of the earliest cities of Mesoamerica, Monte Albán was important for nearly one thousand years as the pre-eminent Zapotec socio-political and economic center. Founded toward the end of the Middle Formative period at around 500 BC  Monte Albán had become the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacted with other Mesoamerican regional states.  The city was largely abandoned after 800 AD. Small-scale reoccupation, opportunistic reuse of earlier structures and tombs, and ritual visitations marked the archaeological history of the site into the Colonial period.

Visible from anywhere in the central part of the Valley of Oaxaca, these impressive ruins of Monte Albán attracted visitors and explorers throughout the colonial and modern eras.

To get there stay at Marina Chahue in Huatulco Mexico and rent a car to visit Oaxaca and stay at any of the local hotels such as the reasonable priced 5 star Victoria Hotel – take an early 30 minute drive up the hillside to get on site early and beat the crowds and daily limits of 400 visitors during Covid

Entry fess in Dec. 2020:  80MXD ~ 4 USD pp

It’s a 6 1/2 hour drive vi route 175 to get to Oaxaca from Marina Chahue – on the way back take route 190 via Mitla and the Mexcal epicenter of Oaxaca.

Carinthia Crew Jay and Ho’Okipa tagging the Panama Posse 

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