Aruba to San Blas 696 NM 5 day sail 2023
Today we are anchored on one of the beautiful amazing islands in the San Blas, off the shores of the coast of Panama. If you picture where Gilligan and his fearless crew landed on that fateful trip, you are picturing the San Blas Islands. No movie stars, or millionaires here with this Captain and Skipper on Raven, but we do have a phone, which is something that they did not have on their tiny ship.
Just when we thought we would never get here and were questioning what our next moves might be… in a blink of an eye, a plan was set in motion and here we are. We are here with our friends Sapphire that we met at the very beginning when we were in Fishing Bay up on the Chesapeake and we had apparently been in the same anchorage for our first send off in the Bahamas. Our other buddy boat to starboard is Texas Crewed that I first met in Grenada through running and we have been traveling with on and off.
Turns out that Texas Crewed and Sapphire actually had met each other previously in the USVI’s when the world was in lock down. I always thought I met Renee first with our friend Mary on Pisces, as us gals became running mates. Pisces and Sapphire had already been traveling together way before we really had met either of them. And that’s how the sailing community rolls or sails, you never can tell where we all met, everyone seems to know everyone, has also been sailing on and off with ones that have become our good friends. Our little sailing group is like a family, or an ameba. Take your pick.
