No postings for awhile for a variety of reasons.
We were frantically getting ready to leave Panama for the passage to Ecuador (the wind/seas window keeps getting more adverse with each passing week) and made no time to get to an internet cafe or write emails. Left Panama on Wednesday the 17th only to get 50 miles and discover the battery bank had crapped out (sorry for the 'tech speak'). Turned around and in 8 hours returned the distance it took us 18 hours to cover going out. (Were we going the wrong way?) A day of tests and wishful workarounds to confirm the obvious solution: time for a new battery bank. Purchased, delivered, installed on Friday (that's 360+ pounds of batteries in and out of a boat in a rolly anchorage by yours truly), and out again to Ecuador on Saturday the 20th. So having checked out of Panama on Tuesday the 16th, we were running around as (technically) illegal aliens.
Once out at sea, the connection between the computer and radio 'crapped out'. Today (the 27th) finally had time and conditions to figure out the problem (well, one never really figures out computer problems, one simply works around them or makes them go away).
We'll have been at sea for 8 days (not counting the false start) when we pull into Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador. Cross the equator tonight. It has been a challenging passage (many more postings on that aspect later), but all is well, and we once again learned that we have skills and patience we didn't think we had, that ceilidh has strengths and abilities we didn't know she had, that we keep loving each other more and more, that we can learn new things and skills all the time.
enough for now, back to the bashing
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