The Panama Guide: A Complete Guide to Cruising Panama and Transiting the Panama Canal

by Nancy S Zydler, Tom Zydler

Overview

The Panama Guide is the most comprehensive guide written about the extraordinarily beautiful waters of the Caribbean and Pacific Coasts of Panama. It contains vital information for planning waterborne adventures along these fascinating shores. With 187 detailed chartlets, The Panama Guide travels through the 365 islands of San Blas, explores the protected bays of Bocas del Toro, the green shores of the Las Perlas archipelago, the intriguing rivers leading into the tropical forest as well as the spectacular Panama Canal. This book includes explicit piloting instructions, GPS waypoints, lists of navigational aids, local services, customs regulations, and recommendations for onshore activities. Nancy Schwalbe Zydler and Tom Zydler are long time contributors to nautical publications throughout the U.S. and Europe including Cruising World, Yachting, Boating International, Sailing, Sail, Yachting World, Yachting Monthly, Classic Boat, Southern Boating as well as Le Chasse Maree, Zagle and Nautique. Nancy and Tom spent three years sailing their yawl Mollymawk throughout Panama to write this guide and have personally visited every area described. Beautiful photos throughout featuring Tom Zydler's photography depicts the splendor and panorama of cruising in Panama. This tropical country boasts some of the most beautiful, colorful, and wild natural scenery anywhere. The Panama Guide will show you the way to one of the world's most fascinating, yet virtually unspoiled cruising grounds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948494229
Publisher:	Seaworthy Publications, Inc
Publication date:	09/18/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	96 MB
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About the Author

The tidal creek twisting through a maze of marshland behind her home in Savannah, Georgia introduced Nancy to the enjoyment of exploring the currents and shifting sands in a coastal environment. The family's sloop and weekly Lightning and Penguin class sailing at the Savannah Yacht Club led to sailing adventures in inshore as well as offshore waters. Later, at the University of Georgia, she studied fine arts. Her paintings of tropical plant life have been exhibited at the Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Art Museum in Tennessee, at the Hilton Head Museum of Art in South Carolina, and at galleries in South Carolina and South Florida. In 1975, Nancy married and sailed away with Tom Zydler. Since that time, they have voyaged from the Great Lakes to Brazil, from Faeroe Islands to the Galapagos, and are still pursuing a life at sea. She has written articles about sailing for Cruising World, Sailing, Sail, Yachting Monthly, and Southern Boating. She holds a US Coast Guard 100-Ton Captain's License.
Tom Zydler started racing dinghies at the age of 12 in his native Poland. He gradually moved up to ocean racing in the Baltic Sea, eventually becoming the youngest Polish holder of a yacht master's license for all oceans. He graduated from the Merchant Marine College and pursued a professional career at sea until receiving the first mate's position. Next, he moved ashore to study English Literature at the University of Lodz. After getting his M.A. with a thesis on Joseph Conrad, he stayed to teach English at the University while continuing to sail during the long vacations that academic life permitted. He led sailing expeditions as far as Iceland, Jan Mayen, and East Greenland. In 1972, he captained a 45-foot yawl from Poland to Cape Horn rounding it from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Next he served as a deck officer on German ships and in 1974, immigrated to the United States where he skippered large private and charter yachts after obtaining a US Coast Guard 500-Ton Master's License for all oceans. Tom writes for yachting magazines and has been published in Cruising World, Yachting, Sailing, Sail, Southern Boating, Wooden Boat, and Professional Boatbuilder in the US, Classic Boat, Yachting World, and Yachting Monthly in the UK, and in Le Chasse Mareé in France. He markets his marine photography through Stock Newport in Portland, Maine.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER II ~ BAHÍA LAS MINAS TO PUERTO OBALDIA, INCLUDING THE SAN BLAS ISLANDS

WEATHER AND WINDS

CURRENTS AND TIDES

NAVIGATING WITH GPS

ANCHORAGES BETWEEN CRISTOBAL AND PUNTA SAN BLAS

ROUTES INTO THE SAN BLAS ISLANDS

SAFE PASSES INTO THE SAN BLAS ISLANDS

THE PEOPLE OF SAN BLAS

SHOPS AND SUPPLIES

CLEARING IN AND OUT OF SAN BLAS

PORVENIR AND THE NEIGHBORING ISLANDS

CHAPTER III ~ RIO CHAGRES TO BOCA DEL DRAGO

CHAPTER IV ~ BALBOA TO PUNTA BURICA

CHAPTER V ~ LAS PERLAS AND THE EAST COAST

Bibliography

Index