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Australian crew who sailed the same route two weeks later reported more onerous thirty
knot winds and twelve foot seas.
Fifty miles from the coast of Panama, we put several rolls in the genoa to slow down
enough for a dawn arrival. Excited at the prospect of landfall, all hands came on deck to
watch the unmistakable green hill of Punta San Blas take shape over the horizon. Soon
after, we could pick out low, palm-lined islands like El Porvenir, where we could clear in-
to Panama. Once that was complete, we could officially declare the blue water passage-
making section of our trip over, and balance it out with coastal cruising along the gor-
geous San Blas islands.
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