We brought Yamana in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. On the 2nd of January 2006 we set off down the east coast of the states all the way to Florida Keys. We crossed the Gulf stream to Cuba, after exploring Havana we went round the western cape then headed south to Grand Caymen. Continuing west to Honduras Bay Islands then future west into Guatemala's Rio Dulce. With the last norther of the season we made our way east and round the corner to the remote island Providencia, then on down to Panama. After exploring Panama's stunning San Blas islands we docked up in Cartagena, Colombia for nearly five months. After the hurricane season we headed back to Providenca and Honduras then on to Belize's Lighthouse reef before hitting the Florida Keys again. We re rigged the boat in Fort Lauderdale then headed across to the Bahamas'. In one month we only had time to explore the Exhume chain before heading south to Cuba, going through wind ward passage and covering the south west coast. From there we went south east to Jamaica and then onward back to Providencia and Panama. We were unable to resist returning to Colombia, this time doing more land travel to the second biggest city Medelin. Back again to Pamana and where we haulled the boat out and painted her bottom. Early January 2008 we went through the Panama canal into the Pacific. Since been on this side we've explore the Perlas Islands just of Panama City and the western islands near the Costa Rica boarder.

The Pacific is half crossed and we are almost counting down the days till we land in New Zealand. Ahead of us is the passage from French Polynesia to the Cook Islands then on to Tonga. This can be very rough if the convergence Zone is active, hopefully we´ll pick our weather window right and shoot through the week max long passages with just the trade winds on our stern. September and October we´ll be hanging in Tonga, prepairing the boat for sixty knots and a knock down. The 1100 mile passage down to New Zealand is well known for it´s nasty weather. From mid October we´ll be waiting for our weather window and hope to be in NZ´s Bay of Islands before the end of November.