After a hectic day in Spotts Bay Grand Cayman, today was a quiet day at sea. The weather was not that great, with a lot from wind blowing from the North East, making it very windy on the portside of the vessel. The wind blew up quite a swell as well and thus the ship moved about a bit, occasionally bumping into a wave instead of riding over it.

In this area of the Caribbean Sea, the regular trade winds tends to bend at with the curve of the continent, thus what is normally a close to Easterly wind, becomes here more of a Northerly wind. That meant that we had the swell just off the port beam and that kept the ship moving slightly for the whole day and evening. Of course we have our stabilizers going but as explained in the past, the stabilizers only dampen out 90% of the roll, so there will always be a little bit of movement left.

On the 18th we have of course the big day. Namely the transiting of the Panama Canal, after our visit to Cartagena. For those of you who are interested in our progress through the canal, below is the schedule as given to the ship by the Panama Canal authorities.

Please keep in mind that it is subject to EXTREMELY much change as the ship sails in convoy and with several ships going through the locks there might be a delay, or it might go faster.

Arriving at Cristobal anchorage 0500hrs for clearance
Gatun locks
Arriving 0630hrs
Departing 0800hrs

Passing By Gamboa 1200hrs

Pedro Miguel locks
Arriving 1330hrs
Departing 1410hrs

Mira Flores locks
Arriving 1430hrs
Departing 1530hrs
ETD Balboa 1730hrs
Arriving at open waters 1800hrs and pilot off.