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09/02/2024
You would bet good money that this ship would not fit through the locks!
31/01/2023

You would bet good money that this ship would not fit through the locks!

Here is the 2023 guide to almost anything in Panama
08/01/2023

Here is the 2023 guide to almost anything in Panama

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Maybe one day Panama will make Portobelo a nicer place to visit, as the history is so important.
05/11/2022

Maybe one day Panama will make Portobelo a nicer place to visit, as the history is so important.

Con la emancipación de las colonias americanas, un comercio decadente y la ausencia de majestuosos convoyes, sus muros y fortificaciones fueron desmanteladas y rápidamente se convirtieron en ruinas

New tolls coming for the Canal
31/07/2022

New tolls coming for the Canal

Great to see at long last
15/12/2021

Great to see at long last

Norwegian Cruise Line announced today that it has become the first cruise line to seasonally homeport in Panama City, Panama, offering roundtrip Panama Can...

18/11/2021

Facts of Panama
Featuring: Portobelo

Did you know? Portobelo is an authentic Pirate Port of the Caribbean
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Portobelo was one of the largest and most important ports for which the wealth that was transported to Spain passed. At the same time, this made it one of the most besieged by pirates of that time.
Portobelo was founded in 1597 by Spanish explorer Francisco Velarde y Mercado and quickly replaced Nombre de Dios as a Caribbean port for Peruvian silver. Legend has it that Christopher Columbus originally named the port "Puerto Bello", meaning "Beautiful Port", in 1502. After Francis Drake died of dysentery in 1596 at sea, he was buried at sea in a lead coffin near Portobelo Bay, memorialised by the present Isla Drake ("Drake Island") at the mouth of the harbour. During the 16th to the 18th centuries it was an important silver-exporting port in New Granada on the Spanish Main and one of the two Atlantic ports on the route of the Spanish treasure fleets. The Spanish built defensive fortifications.

In 1601 by the English privateer William Parker captured Portobello from the Spanish. Welshman Henry Morgan repeated the feat in 1668, having led a fleet of privateers and 450 men and overcome its strong fortifications. His forces plundered it for 14 days before withdrawing. It was captured again in 1680 by pirate John Coxon.

In 1726 the British suffered a disaster in their Blockade of Porto Bello under Admiral Francis Hosier, an attempt to prevent the Spanish treasure fleet returning to Spain, when due to their lengthy wait and inactivity (as ordered by the British government) moored at Bastimentos 11 km (6.8 mi) to the northeast (not to be confused with another Bastimentos Island 270 miles to the west), the large part of the sailors died from tropical diseases. The disaster was vindicated 13 years later when during the War of Jenkins' Ear the port was attacked and captured on November 21, 1739, by a British fleet of six ships commanded by Admiral Edward Vernon.

… More about Portobelo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portobelo,_Col%C3%B3n

Norwegian Bliss going under Bridge of the Americas. Perhaps the biggest cruise ship to transit the Canal.
28/09/2021

Norwegian Bliss going under Bridge of the Americas. Perhaps the biggest cruise ship to transit the Canal.

This must be one of the biggest cruise ships to transit the Panama Canal. Norwegian Bliss appears to be waiting for low ...
27/09/2021

This must be one of the biggest cruise ships to transit the Panama Canal. Norwegian Bliss appears to be waiting for low tide so it can squeeze under the bridge.

16/08/2021

A lot of ships! We were on 24 of them..... (21 yachts and 3 cruises)

09/06/2021

The canal was under US control for nearly a century and was only recognised as Panamanian on New Year's Eve 1999.

Check out our books that describe the process of transiting a yacht through the Panama Canal, and the sights to look out...
02/06/2021

Check out our books that describe the process of transiting a yacht through the Panama Canal, and the sights to look out for from the comfort of a cruise ship. http://madaboutpanama.com/mad-about-panama/buy-a-book/

(Also available on Amazon)

There is a lot of information on this website but we have also produced PDF files that you can download. PayPal will direct you to the website’s download link for your PDF document.

22/05/2021

The hull of the former amphibious warship Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) is in the Caribbean Sea after transiting the Panama Canal, according to data from ship trac

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