Panama Canal

We have been getting ready for our transit. I did a line handling job for another boat so that I could get a sense of what we were up against. Overall nothing to dramatic, but there is alot of force involved. Very little shipping activity though, a commentary no doubt on the struggling state of the world economy.

We are scheduled to transit on Thursday, though it takes two days so we will not be through until Friday, spending the night in Gatun Lake. When we go through the Mira Flores locks you can see us on the Canal's webcan at http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html. The way the scheduling works is that we will likely enter the Mira Flores locks on the second day of our transit (Friday) at about 12:30 - which is 1:30 pm EDT or 10:30 am PDT.

There has been a slight shuffling of boats the last couple of days with boats being pushed one day later. We will not know if Thursday is a go until Thursday, but will update the blog if anything changes.

We are all very excited.

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