Not far away did we manage to sail…
The Gulf of Panama is a deathtrap. Everyone warned us. One day it’s dead calm.
Another day there’re thunderstorms with tornados.
Hence, we managed to reach only the Perlas islands, a small archipelago in about a hundred km from Panama City.
There, we immediately came across a point of interest. That’s how it was: several years ago, a Colombian decided to withdraw from business. He built a hotel. To be able to get there, he decided to find a boat. And what are the fastest boats? The former Soviet ones, of course. He called his friends in Russia and they got him a boat. Then, the Colombian got killed by a Stinger missile when he was flying in a helicopter on business. Well, he shouldn’t have withdrawn from business so suddenly. Since that, the boat remains ashore.
There are still chairs in the cabin.
And even the machinery is left.
Inscriptions in Russian are very touching.
Real nostalgia.
And the hotel is still there.
As for us, we are anchored, waiting for fine weather and fishing.
However, the main thing is that we solved the unsolvable problem with a mobile and can now be reached ANY TIME. It took us painfully long to install it. Now I know how “bunches” of antennas look like. Wanna have a look?
- Radio transmitter
- WiFi
- GLONASS
- GPS
- Auto identification system
- Radio
- Satellite Internet
- One of the three solar panels
- Satellite phone
- Radar detection device
- Radar
- Wind-powered generator
- Emergency lamp, Man-over-board system
- Acoustic systems
- Mango (used to be there)
- Oranges (still there)
- Fishing rod
Inside, e-devices are even on the ceiling.
Endless hand thick wires are all over the boat.
And this is the phone proper, which is now always “Ready.”
And these are only a few of all the gadgets and devices. There also are chartplotters and echo-sounders, engine control system, solar panel and wind generator processors, battery recharge monitors, generators, photo and video, flash drives and book readers, navigation lights, pumps and lavatory pans, wind and speed detectors, laptops and memory drivers… And, in a salty environment, all these are continuously oxygenized, get burned, malfunction, conflict and need to be powered. I already feel nostalgia about the time when additional equipment on the yacht consisted only of a compass and a kerosene lamp.
Next time I’ll tell you a story about a sanitary technician. It’s very fascinating, too.
And here’s the most recent weather forecast for 72 hours. Arrows show wind direction
Drink our health and wish us a tailwind or something!