Adventures of Elysium

Hello from us aboard Elysium. We are sailing around the world and will keep you updated as we go and post pictures as well to keep you up to date. We started this blog when Jeremy and Angela were aboard with us from San Blsa to Cartegena Columbia. Thanks to Jeremy and his knowledge of bloggers we were able to make this happen. unfortunatly, I hit the wrong button a few days ago when attempting to upload some photo´s and deleted the few entries we had already written. Of course I was in a spanish internet cafe. OK, I´m still a novice at spanish so, here we go again...

As we were anchored in the San Blas Islands deciding where to head. we all wanted to make the trip to Cartegena because we all have heard so many good things about this city in Columbia. A few days into the week and the winds were predicted to be 20 to 25 knt winds NE and seas 9-11ft and we all looked up and said lets set sail. We raised the sails, running with a small yankee cut head sail, double reef in the main and a single reef in the mizzen. Ok, some sailors like the calms of 5 knots winds and then they start their motors and motor most of the way. We are a sailing boat and try to use the motor at the least of times.

The trip took us more than 4 days beating on a single tack. We could not make Cartegena in one tack and we were all very tired so we ended up stopping in isla Bernardo´s south west of Cartegena, a very beautifull spot indeed. after a few days there of rest and exploring we headed north for Cartegena and again the afternoon winds and seas picked up and we could only make it to the Rosarios islands north west of Cartegena..One day there and we headed for the break water of Cartegena.

We were in Cartegena for about 12 days, having some work done on the boat, a little site seeing and some surfing for Jeremy.

The trip from San Blas to Columbia with Jeremy and Angela aboard was a real treat for sure. I miss them dearly and hope we hook up again on the sea. They were very good crew aboard the boat with great knowledge of sailing. I enjoyed their company and hope to see them again.

Off and ready to head west towards Colon Panama to get our transit date, we set sail for the Rosario´s again for a few days to relax before our beam reach back to Panama.

Once in the anchorage in the Rosario´s we met some other cruisers and one of them had run out of water. we offered water since we carry a water maker aboard Elysium. while filling Don´s tank the water maker stalled and , now we are without a water maker..I worked on the water maker for a whole day, with no success of making it work. I decided that we should get going and get to Colon and have a tech. look at the unit.