Panama City

Panama City:

Thursday, 16^th Feb., 2012…………

Nice sunny day, we untied from the mooring ball at Balboa Yacht Club, Panama City and headed around the point to Flamingo Marina to fill up with diesel fuel for the 500 mile+_ crossing West to Isla de Cocos, Costa Rica.  This picture is of the Bridge of Americas at our mooring field in Panama City at the Balboa Yacht Club.......

This picture is of the pier and to the right the yacht club.....

Before leaving Robin helped string a new halyard for the main sail giving one of those rare opportunities to take this picture.............

We sailed around a long peninsula that was created when a causeway was built out to an island to get to the fuel dock.  This is the view of Panama City from this point.....

After waiting outside the fuel dock for almost 2 hours we were finally allowed to come in for fuel.  We topped up both tanks with about 72 gal. @ $3.70 per gal. and were underway by about 11:30 a.m. heading West across the Gulf of Panama (over 30 miles) and out into the Pacific.....