Transit Blogs
While the best way to learn how to transit the Panama Canal is to join someone else on their yacht, you can also learn from reading about other peoples’ experiences. Here are some blogs that we have managed to find online.
This website was built from personal experience and from reading through blogs like the ones listed here, so hopefully most of the useful information has made it into the website and therefore into the pdf that you can download.
Blog posts from yachts that have transited the Panama Canal:
2023 Elixir – Yachting World article
2023 – Platina – A travelling couple join as linehandlers
2022 – Brio – Detailed description of a transit without an agent
2022 – Wasa – German article but Google can help with that
2020 – Hope and Glory – Amusing account
2019 – Minh – Article from Cruising World
2019 – Sea You – French, but Google translate takes care of that
2019 – Cream Puff – Detailed description of the whole process
2019 – General description of a transit
2018 – Third Wish – When it goes horribly wrong
2018 – Totem – about the costs involved
2018 – Totem – all about the transit
2018 Ganesh – An amusing, but very informative account with some precautionary tales
2015 – Impetuous 2 – preparation
2015 – Impetuous 2 – the transit
2014 – Adina – this link downloads a pdf
2012 – Forum about anchoring near the Canal and transit procedure
2003 – Intrepid – this link downloads a pdf
Michael Briant describes a Canal transit, and provides a procedures page