Panama Canal Pics

Playing catch up. Here are pics from Panama Canal trip with Randy Sherman and Chris Barkesdale aboard.
- staging anchorage in Colon
- waiting for the advisor to arrive
- Advisor arrives on Pilot boat
- First meeting with Himene
- Large Tug on the Canal
- not much space
- Pretty close
- 3 yachts Rafting up together to go through the locks
- First Lock. the middle boat the driver
- Doing up the locks as night falls.
- in first lock with a ship
- Gates close on the caribbean
- Advisors arriving in the morning of second day
- five boats tied up together on to a very large round ship mooring.
- OUr advisor and Randy
- Randy and Chris
- A travellier from California who help through the locks
- approaching the Pacific side locks
- the narrowest cut in the canal
- rerafting up again to come down through the Pacific Locks.
- entering the locks
- In the locks
- entering the locks
- in the locks
- a ship in the parrallel locking going in the same direction
- The Visitor centre on the Pacific side watching the ships going through.
- ship exiting a lock
- We are in the pacific
- transit crewv unfortunately chris got cut off
- Bridge of the Americas.
- Unloading crew and fender at Balboa Yacht Club.