In normal life these ugly plastic chairs wouldn’t have useful function any more, but these amputees seem pretty well adapted to their environment…
If you are in Portobelo, there is not a chance that you will miss restaurant El Drake, and it is good to know there is a place like this, before you come. Portobelo is fast growing in popularity amongst the sailors. Just a day-sail from the San Blas and an hour and something by bus to Colon or Panama City . El Drake is just what you need to read the paper and drink a coffee while your clothes are washing at the Chinese store, to do Internet and drink a beer, or to have a good meal and not heat up the boat…
Somewhere, in a tropical serre
Somewhere hidden in the tropical forest, close to the Darien (the border between Colombia and Panama), our backpack reporter got a glimpse of this new hybrid of the plastic chairs...
Another way to display pictures that I have in Flickr?
4 February 2008, just leaving for Providencia, Henry hit a reef with his boat Antares in Guanaja...
How do we do the more then one tag in Flickr?
Literally it means “To leave the anchorage”. Boats need a Zarpe if they leave port and it is made in the port a boat leaves. Some thoughts on the use and abuse of this little piece of paper.
Common knowledge is that sailing is a healthy thing to do. Away from the working stress. Idyllic, romantic, close to nature and healthy food (fish!). An escape of living in a busy society where there are more rules to obey then is healthy for you…
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