After 5 months in Curacao and unforgettable experiences I decided to undertake a new adventure in my life. There I left many good friends that helped me a lot during my days on board of Windsong, the Phantom of Spanish Waters. Thanks guys!

Everything started when I visited a friend in Piscadera Bay, where the boats are taken out of the water to repair and make them ready to sail. There I saw for the first time MOJITO, a  Jenneau Sun Odyseey 39 feet, and Charly the captain who had to scrape off all the antifouling and epoxy. He asked  me to help him so I spent 2 days working hard but with time to have fun and meet Marie and Luke from Belle de Lune, a huge  49 feet catamaran where they make you feel that you are in a restaurant.

When everthing was done, MOJITO was ready to sail but he needed some crew so after thinking a lot I decided to jump on board and start my voyage to Panama, sailing through beautiful small villages in Colombia, Cartagena and San Blas.

On Tuesday 7th of December at 6AM I woke up hearing the weigh of the anchor, together with Belle de Lune we were leaving Spanish Waters heading Aruba on a nice sunny day with a flat sea. On the way we decided to pass Aruba and go straight to an island called Monjes del Sur, an ancient military base. Unfortunately the bottom wasn't deep enough to anchore so we continued for 10 more hours until we got Bahia de Honda in Colombia. Finally after 2 days of sailing we anchored, I took my first hot shower in a long time and we ate a delicous tuna that we had fished on the way. 

Next morning, while enjoying the home-made bread just done, I saw a big boat full of militars and coastgards approaching us. It was incredible, we where in the middle of nowhere, no boats, no village, nothing! They were really nice, they just wanted to check the boat and the papers, as usual, but the sea was a little bit rough so they couldn't visit MOJITO.

We spent there 2 nights resting and then we were ready to go through El Cabo de la Vela, a difficult passage according to the experts, but the weather was good so we had no problems and in 8 hours we arrived to a nice village where indigenous colombian fishermans were visiting us and asking for some water, flour, hooks or coffee. Some were selling huge lobsters so we bought 2 and I can say that on Friday 10th of December I had my Christmas dinner.

After this luxuorious night we were ready to sail for 30 hours to Santa Marta. Once we were there, we decided to enter to the Marina because the bad weather was comming so we had one week to visit the village, clean MOJITO, refill the tanks with water and make the innox.

The next stage was Cartagena de Indias but we decided to stop one night to avoid to sail during the night. On the way we crossed the Magdalena river, the most important  in Colombia that carries plenty of trunks and makes big waves when it meets the sea. Really impressing!

MOJITO managed without problems and after one night in Barranquilla we arrived to Cartagena de Indias, the New York from South America. 

Here I will spend my first Christmas on water even if I don't know exactly in which day I'm living and the 30 degrees doesn't fit with my idea of Noel visting me. Anyway I wish to everybody a Merry Christmas!