WOW’s Central American Voyage
WOW, a 45’ Stealth racing catamaran, custom built in Phuket, Thailand with a crew of 3 pirates under the command of Cptn David is on a voyage of exploration, plunder and consumption around the Caribbean shores of Central America. After a week of hard work toiling in the tropical sun carrying out a long list of boat jobs including anti fouling, plumbing, sail making and electro-mechanical engineering at the Rio Dulche Marina in Guatemala where she had spent several months resting on the hard stand, she’s now afloat replete with her spiffingly repainted 20m black mast and bright red rudder castings which look like afterburners.
From Rio Dulche, where we exhausted most of the bars and emptied the supermarket we head up river, just scaping under the road bridge and past a 16C Spanish fort, Castillo de San Filipe de Lara to enter Lago de Izabel, a vast freshwater lake which stretches 50km westwards between two mountain ranges. From our first anchorage at Finca Paraiso on the northern shore we walk inland up a mountain track besieged by kids selling us banana pancakes and coconuts, to a hot waterfall. The waterfall, issuing into a cool clear stream running down from the karstic mountain emerges from a hot spring high above the stream. The water is about 65deg and is like standing under a very hot shower surrounded by jungle with steam and rainbows. Then it’s back to the boat by way of a waterside restaurant for enchiladas and guacamole to repair all the things we hadn’t quite finished before we head down river to the village of Livingston at the mouth of El Golfete and our Caribbean cruise.
You can follow our voyage on Marine Traffic (look for WOW, MMSI 235110755) or look at our map in Google Mymaps: Central American Cruise
From Rio Dulche, where we exhausted most of the bars and emptied the supermarket we head up river, just scaping under the road bridge and past a 16C Spanish fort, Castillo de San Filipe de Lara to enter Lago de Izabel, a vast freshwater lake which stretches 50km westwards between two mountain ranges. From our first anchorage at Finca Paraiso on the northern shore we walk inland up a mountain track besieged by kids selling us banana pancakes and coconuts, to a hot waterfall. The waterfall, issuing into a cool clear stream running down from the karstic mountain emerges from a hot spring high above the stream. The water is about 65deg and is like standing under a very hot shower surrounded by jungle with steam and rainbows. Then it’s back to the boat by way of a waterside restaurant for enchiladas and guacamole to repair all the things we hadn’t quite finished before we head down river to the village of Livingston at the mouth of El Golfete and our Caribbean cruise.
You can follow our voyage on Marine Traffic (look for WOW, MMSI 235110755) or look at our map in Google Mymaps: Central American Cruise
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