A short history of SV Companion -
In April of 2005, Kim and I signed an agreement to purchase a Leopard Catamaran and place it in the Moorings Charter Program for 5 years.

Buying the last 40' Catamaran built in 2005 by Robinson and Caine of South Africa, the boat was to be chartered in Placencia, Belize. It arrived in Belize in late November, and was used by Moorings Chartering until June of 2010. During that time, we were able to sail our boat many times, and have a few charters in other parts of the world; LaPaz Mexico, Abaco Bahama, British Virgin Islands, Nice France, Gocek Turkey (Turquoise Coast).

Max , our nephew and his dad, Mike will be joining, Kim and I for part of the voyage. We are also looking forward to meeting family and friends along the way.

Our blog is intended to share our journey, memories and information to sailors.

Enjoy, Dale & Kim

PS: 10 years after the start of our voyage, we are living in LaConner with SV Companion and the adventure continues.











Tuesday, January 3, 2012

On our own in Panama CIty


On our own in Panama City has been a blast - now that the engines and all systems are working - 
we now have time fun ….

Waking up in the mornings - the city is quiet  - we sit on the foredeck with our coffee (mocha for me) - watching the ships go by … in and out of the Canal lane ... 

The Bridge of the Americas

We certainly have been doing our fair share of walking - especially thru the city - not knowing Spanish - difficult to know which bus to catch - so foot travel is the best with a taxi or two to get us back to the boat …


Downtown Panama City

Most of you know how I love a parade - so in the weekly English/Spanish Visitor newspaper Dale found out about the Christmas Parade … so of course - knowing how crowded a good parade can get - we left early to get a good view - what we didn’t realize was that no body shows up till an hour or so before it was to start … we had a lot of time to kill …

Almost as good Portillo’s! - street vendor delicious!


Parade expectation was great for me … when the five floats went by with about four bands - the million people were estatic!! Wish they could see the Rose Parade!  People watching was fab though ..



Where are the roses?

Getting Companion ready for Christmas is enjoyable for me - besides the regular cleaning I really enjoyed putting a little floral touch to the cockpit … Em, Kyle, Bryce are coming and want it to be festive!!


Fresh evergreen, candle and beach treasures make it merry.

Look who received a new chair as an early Christmas gift - Dale knows how to make me smile - now I can lounge as he slaves away at the helm …. Or wherever  - it will rock me to sleep I am sure!


 Even matches the hammock that hangs from the mainsail!

One more secret on how to make this first mate smile - and that is to be sure that we have enough ice for any occasion - the ice bags here are huge - about 16 pounds of ice - our freezer was workin’ overtime - plus every water container was filled with the extra  … now I am ready for my “peeps” to come … hurry up Em, Kyle and Bryce!!


Let the week begin!


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