This day has come! The beginning of the new year has become the beginning of our new journey, the beginning of a new stage of our project Sail for Science. Two months of intense work on the boat in conditions of constant heat, frequent rains and lack of ocean breeze are over, we are free to sail wherever we want. We decided to sail west, exploring new islands and countries, and conducting CTD measurements along the South of the Caribbean Sea. In the first leg it will be Panama, and there we will decide where to go next – the Panama Canal and the Pacific Ocean, or the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
We are heading for the remote Venezuelan Islas Los Testidos- a 100-mile night crossing. The weather is windy and choppy, but everything is fair, even the rain:)
