Florida

We have finally left Ft. Lauderdale after 2 ½ months. Everything has taken much longer than anticipated. It has been a long process and the boat was in a constant state of disarray. We are happy this stage is complete. We left in the dark at 5:30 a.m. January 12th and arrived at West End,…

We arrived in Ft. Lauderdale on November 1st. There were a number things that we wanted to have done on Panache to get her ready for a 5-year circumnavigation. The work was scheduled to take about 6 weeks. Our plan was to then spend a week with Richard Widmann, a very experienced, professional skipper, to…