Comments on: I LOVE PANAMA https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/ Land and Sea Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:22:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Sbrash007 https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/#comment-2422 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:22:55 +0000 #comment-2422 Hey Alex, I found this interesting tidbit about Palmyra on the nature conservancy’s website:

“1816

A Spanish pirate ship, the Esperanza,loaded with plunder from the Incan temples, wrecks on the atoll reefs. The crew allegedly buries the treasure beneath a palm grove before setting out on three fabricated rafts. Two of the rafts are never seen again. The remainiing raft is rescued by an American whaling vessel. The sole survivor of the raft soon dies after sharing the fate of his ship.”

Kinda makes you wonder why everyone seems to want this particular atoll!! Also, since 2009, visitiing yachts may visit with prior permission.

Stewart

]]> By: Warren https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/#comment-2421 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:29:00 +0000 #comment-2421 Alex,

You can go to a lab in Miami and pay for your own drug test. Its about $150 and results take 1 or 2 days to get back, thats a small investment and it would give you time for a couple of beers with your friend! Its not about invading your privacy, its about insurance liability and good ol frivolous lawsuits – USA Style!

]]> By: SVPLANB4 https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/#comment-2420 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:12:05 +0000 #comment-2420 hey alex check out 2009 panama to hilo via cocos and palmyra
http://www.mahina.com/expeditionupdates.html

]]> By: Alex https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/#comment-2419 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:05:04 +0000 #comment-2419 Capt Paul.

It doesn’t look like I can take the job working on the ship for three weeks, bummer, would have been about 5k. So I don’t think I’ll be visiting Florida after all. They don’t have drug testing facilities in Panama and I don’t think they will take me on without one. I must admit I’m a bit put off by taking a drug test, I’d come up 100% clean for sure, but what a nasty practice! Talk about an invasion of privacy.

Wow, big Scottish party last night! Lots of haggis, Scottish dancing, red wine, and Scottish whiskey! I didn’t wake up until 11:00 and kind of wish I hadn’t! I must say I do have some really nice friends here.

It’s going to be a slow day :(

Peace, Love, and Tylenol!

]]> By: sandbarSam https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/#comment-2418 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:43:54 +0000 #comment-2418 “WE may all get older…But we all don’t have to grow up”

]]> By: CaptPaul https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/#comment-2417 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:53:18 +0000 #comment-2417 Alex:

You crack me up… The juices are flowing. Your childlike ways are rockin’ again. Cool. Keep it up and remember the way.

All’s well up here in SW Florida. Winter is settling in with the fronts coming down every 7 days or so. Winds are good, the phone is starting to ring and I’ve picked up a couple of short charters.

I found a good source for green coconuts up here and have a shipment coming in today. Tourists love it when you crack a coconut and let ’em drink the “magic” water. Damn that stuff is so good for you.

Hey when you are in Miami, are you going to have a day or two to come to the west coast and have a beer? It would be good to see you again.

In any case, keep up the video projects and stay in touch.

Capt. Paul
s/v Panacea

]]> By: Alex https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/#comment-2416 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:09:02 +0000 #comment-2416 I’m getting excited about the Pacific crossing. I was up till two am last night on the internet and pouring over charts. I’ll have to cross the ITCZ three times but it is what it is :) I’m going to cross much slower and I’m looking at visiting Cocos before Galapagos. I’ll post a route in a few days, WAYYYYYY off the beaten path :) I’ll need sat phone minutes so I can post blogs, pictures will be impossible without a BGAN system but I can post pictures and videos…, well, I don’t know when but if I can at least get text updates that will be cool :)

]]> By: chuck https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/#comment-2415 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:24:37 +0000 #comment-2415 Of all the stops on our carb cruise the best seem to be the ones other cruisers said to pass by.

]]> By: Sbrash007 https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/#comment-2414 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:11:30 +0000 #comment-2414 Hey Alex, Vincent Bugliosi was also the prosecuter in the Manson trials, and he wrote this(And the sea will tell), some years after, as these events transpired around August 1974. I think what Tony E meant by creepy was Mr. Bugliosi’s very dark tone, descibing how they had no fishing gear, had no diving equipment or the ability to survive on this island. He basically portrays Buck Walker(the convicted killer), as a fugative low life, who would do anything to further his own survival. For instance, He mentions all the sharks in the lagoon! Oh no! Well, everybody I know consider black-tips as pretty harmless, but you get the idea. Buck Walker and his girlfreind Stephanie Stearns, bought a wood sailboat in Hawaii and she sailed it to Palmyra with no help from him, as he was seasick the whole time. She used dead reckoning and a I think a sextant, which by itself was pretty impressive. I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to go there! Stewart

]]> By: Alex https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2011/01/25/I-LOVE-PANAMA/#comment-2413 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:12:31 +0000 #comment-2413 Why is it creepy? was it a fictional thing?

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