Der Plan



This is the blog of our travels with s/y Barracuda.

The trip started in August 2010 from Harlingen in the Netherlands as a young man's adventure by Jan-Vincent Nickl and Laszlo Schöffer, both born of the year '89 (also the owners of 'Barracuda').

After crossing the Atlantic Ocean and cruising the Eastern Caribbean islands for a while, Jan left the boat and Oliver Clasper, a young artist and photographer (born of '88) from London joined in. We plan for this year to cross the South Pacific.

The boat is a dutch-built sloop,ten metres long, year of construction 1975. She's a Cumulant 3 to be more precise, designed by 'Van-der-Vlis'.

Most of the photos will be posted on Olly's blog, check it out:

www.olivertc.blogspot.com






Dienstag, 8. Mai 2012

Portobelo, Panamá

We're spending our last night in Portobelo; and our second last night in the Atlantic!
Tomorrow morning we'll head for Colón again, where we'll pick up our Canal advisor on Thursday and go through the Gatún Locks. The first step of our way to the Pacific!

By the way: There's webcams filming the locks, so you can watch us through the Canal! Here's some details:


Panama canal calls! Will be heading through in two days, and ive heard that there are actually web cams so you can watch us go from carib to pacif! doesnt sound so appealing but if you wanna check it out... heres where to find it http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html
we will be going through the gatun locks on thursday around 4.30 5 our time, so 10.30 11 home time, (one hour later in civilized European countries that use daylight savings), and through the miraflores locks on friday at about 12.30 1 our time 6.30 7 home time (same here). we are on the small yellow boat crowded with people, so shouldnt be able to miss us. Might be tieing up with a 100ft mega sailing yacht, so looking forward to giving them a new paint job!
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1 Kommentar:

  1. Laszlos Mom9. Mai 2012 um 23:07

    Gute Reise, gute Reise!
    Lucky me: I have a day of "home office" today, so I'll be able to watch you passing the locks. Looking forward to seeing you on crowded Barry!
    La Mamma

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