On our way

Hi all,

We have set sail for Galapagos today and are excited to be on our way. We enjoyed a week in Las Perlas islands off the coast of Panama. Beautiful beaches and quiet anchorages. Our last anchorage had hundreds of pelicans that kept us entertained with their constant dive bombing into the water all around Maple. Fortunately no poorly aimed pelican managed to hit the deck. Yesterday, we had a crocodile fishing around us too...D was relieved he had already cleaned the hulls.

We were thrilled when we got one last visit in with our friends on Nawii last night and this morning before we both start to head west. After meeting up with them in Turkey, Greece, Malta, Spain, Atlantic crossing, Antigua, Guadaloupe, and now Panama, we are fairly confident our paths will cross again in the South Pacific somewhere. Have a fabulous crossing, friends, see you on the other side!!

So far the sail has been great. Started out with the spinnaker but then the wind started to climb. So now we are sailing comfortably with one reef in the main and a full head sail. The seas are tame, generally hitting us on the aft quarter so not too uncomfortable. The forecast is rather benign, so hopefully no surprises. Hope to arrive in Galapagos by the middle of next week.

Assuming we set it up correctly, this email should post on our blog, on our new SV Maple Facebook page and on the Pacific Puddle Jump site at https://cruisersat.net/track/Maple so plenty of spots to keep track of us.

We just ask that you please start a new email when responding as it helps reduce the download time over our SSB if we don't have to re-download my original email in your response. Also if you accidentally hit Reply All, your response will be posted on all the above spots too. So you have been warned!! But we do love hearing from people (do I sound a little desperate?!), so please don't hesitate to respond and it can be more than one sentence. Love to hear any and all news.

Take care everyone,
sv Maple crew

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At 2019-03-26 9:40 PM (utc) our position was 07°57.10'N 078°59.047'W