Leg 6 - Race 10 - Panama to Jamaica

We first had to transfer through the Panama Canal from the Flamenco Marina near Panama City on the Pacific side to Colon on the Caribbean side. We slipped moorings at 7am and only arrived at the marina around 8:30pm that evening. This is a photo of the first lock we went through.



Although we consider our 68ft sailboat quite large our neighbors were MUCH bigger and looked down upon us with much amusement.



A view of the ship behind us.



Due to lack of winds we motored from Colon and met the other boats for a La Mons start where we all line up and at a given signal charge forward and hoist our headsails.



Not very "Caribbean-like" weather. Here we are trying to eke out some extra boat speed by sitting on the rail.



Maybe it helped - Liverpool behind us.



But the again - New York ahead of us. Not much improvement in the weather.



Finally the weather improved and the foul weather gear came off and I took up my normal racing position.



A marginally better result than the prior race with us finishing 7th.