Panama Canal

[toucan1737]

Can anyone tell me what time the Wind Spirit goes thru the Panama Canal when it's at the beginning of the trip? thanks much!

[Strenz]

Hi, when we went through the canal we started around 6 am, beautiful with the backdrop of a sunrise. It took the entire day and we had to tie up to a pier just befor the Bridge of the Americas to wait for low tide to get under it. That in itself was fascinating because of the optical illusions where the sails meet the bridge.You are certain it will crash. Have a great time, Panama Canal on a small sailing ship it was wondeful. Susanne

[toucan1737]

Thanks! Friends are on it, starting tomorrow. We haven't done that one but have done 6 others on Windstar. LOVE them.

 

So it's daylight when you go thru Gatun locks? I guess so.....you said sunrise. Thanks again.

[Crusin Kelly]

IF you can find the time the ship goes through, or if you have the time to spend on the computer, you might want to look at one of the Panama Canal Web Cams.

 

We got friends of ours to do a screen print from this website (we used international minutes to tell them when). Makes a pretty neat souvenir.

 

http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html

 

or you might try this one:

panamacanallivecam.com

 

you can also track the ship using Marine Traffic - shows the (relatively) current location

 

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:369611/mmsi:309056000/vessel:WIND%20SPIRIT

 

 

Kelly

[toucan1737]

Thank you Kelly! We did see them, took still pics and videoed the passage thru MiraFlores for them. SO cool!

[Crusin Kelly]

Glad I could help.