The extraordinary customs process was still rumbling on but the port capitan gave us permission to sail the boat 50 miles or so round to Cartagena, so we left the brown waves of Puerto Velero and motored out in a calm, back in to the blue. Cartagena makes quite a spectacular landfall. Arriving by sea, […]
Month / December 2016
Feliz Navidad
Merry Christmas xx
Me Gusta Colombia
13.12.16 Pablo’s hippos Eventually we had a signed document from the Port Capitan and were free to leave Santa Marta. The next passage was a quick 60 mile hop across the bay and in to Puerto Velero. Our route would take us past the mouth of the mighty Magdalena River. It flows north through Colombia […]
Curaçao to Colombia
02.12.16 So we left Willemstad and sailed up the West coast of Curacao, checking all systems were working ok. Great to be sailing again, having been away from the boat for a few months we tend to forget just how fast and powerful she is. Escapade was romping along, out in the blue again with […]
Boat repairs in exotic places.
November 17 Some famous old salt once said that sailing around the world is just a lot of ‘boat repairs in exotic places’. This boatyard in Curacao isn’t very exotic, but it seems a reasonable price to pay, a week or so of maintenance at either end of a 6 month winter cruise. Mission Critical […]
escapade sailing 