Geoff Schultz wrote:
"Janet O'Leary" wrote in news:P9P3l.509
:

Looking at a boat book.. wondering about the boats that go from
S Calif all the way to the Panama Canal . and through.

How far is that? And does it cost lots of money to go through the canal?

Any of you world cruisers ever do this?

Tell all,, interested in learning.

I'm sorry that you got sucked into the Wibur rampage and as usual, that the
signal to noise ratio of any discussion that he enters into goes to an
extreme, making any useful discussion impossible.

This is actually a trip that I've considered making several times. For
this upcoming year I'm seriously considering making the same trip as I want
to sail my boat from RI to Milwaukee, WI and then ship it to the west coast
and do the trip to Panama canal.

One book that you want to get is called "The Forgotten Middle (A cruisers
quide to the Pacific coasts of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and
Nicaragua) by Roy and Carol Robert. Unfortunately I think that it's out of
print and has a copyright date of 1995. I did scan my copy a year or so
ago and provide it to someone who was looking at doing the same trip. I
might be able to come up with a pointer to that person so that I don't have
to scan it again.

One of the key things that I'll point out is that you're going against the
current, which makes this a difficult trip. And has been mentioned before,
make sure that you do not under estimate the Gulf of Tehuantepec, which has
tremendous winds. I've spent a lot of years in the NW Caribbean and talked
to boats which have tried to make it through there. It's nothing to be
triffled with.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org

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Gordon