Very cool! I have now been through the canal 5 times. Twice helping others and 3 times on our own boat, a K Peterson 44 cutter. It was right when the canal was being turned over to Panama. Once admeasured, (about $350, we could transit for $90! So went E to W, W to E and and then back over to the Pacific to stay. Loved cruising Panama, both sides. We were going to stay there for 2 wks, but spent 2 yrs. Great cruising and Scuba (our other passion). We ran charters in the San Blas for a very lucrative season. Then the Las Pearlas. We didn’t have RUclips to make money with. So took people on 1-2 wk charters, sailing and diving. Usually 2-3 months of chartering paid for the rest of the year! Have followed you guys from the beginning. Great documentation. THANK YOU. And bless your wonderful family.
Incredible!! it's such a massive experience. Hard to imagine all those workers doing this complicated work every day. takes so much discipline and focus. Happy trails on the Pacific guys!
Yeah, the Pilot was really cool and sure helped running all the lines. I wonder if they have different pilots for different ships in the canal? I would think there's a different skillset for sail boats and container ships. The traffic control is amazing as well. Hard working folks. ❤
Crazy how Ft. Sherman has been overgrown like that. I was there while serving in the Marines for about 6 weeks. I helped teach jungle warfare classes jointly with the Army, while on alert as the Air Contingency Battalion for the 1st Mar Div. We lived in those same barracks while I was there. How things have changed since 1988.
Such a wonderful video! I would love to go through the Panama canal, how exciting! Great to have the 2 friends and your mom onboard as well. I have been looking for a new video, so glad all is well and you went safely through the Panama canal! ❤
Yes in the 1920s Oxy-acetylene welding,in the UK so I am sure it was around in America They were two gases from tall tanks piped to what they call a torch with a welding rod that was for different types and depths of metal. Also you had to make sure you switched the knobs to get the right blue center white flame for the heat. I used to weld that way also could be used under water if an expert for that jobs.
Absolutely wonderful share of your second crossing. This is on my bucket list!!!! Ya'll always give the best show and narrative of your experiences. Go Well into the gorgeous Pacific. ⛵
So cool to see all the details of a Panama Canal crossing! Wauw! Been wondering gor a while, whats up with the German flag? Is your boat registered there? Safe sailing! ⛵️
A fascinating video and did not realise you were able to do your own line handling. I had heard there were issues with water levels in Lake Gatun to serve the needs of the canal so great you could get through. My only comment is that I was truly surprised you were not wearing gloves as having somebody suffer a rope burn would be bad news. Here's to the next set of videos from the Pacific. Enjoy!!!
I had an older cousin stationed in Panama in the 80s. I need to see if he may have been stationed their. Panama canal videos amazes me, the engineering behind it. Thanks for a great video
I suspect that the lock doors are riveted because they're made of black iron. I have read that it lasts a long time. It can't be welded. Old ships were riveted also.
Not many kids in the world will ever get the chance to experience what you’re allowing your little ones too, I applaud you for giving them the chance to have such a great adventure. What they’re getting won’t be available for much longer, hell, I got a visit from the police when someone complained about me climbing trees with my son when he was 5 😢 Your kids will one day thank you for allowing them to experience growing up this way.
@@maggierayner9408 Which is not what is going on here. This is a great example of balancing risk and reward. We have risks no matter where we live. Great parenting exposes children to as much of life as you can, while you can. I now question traditional schooling v homeschooling since you can provide awesome education whiles howing your kids what they are learning. The dangers in schools are truly greater than ever, as an example.
Hi guys my name is Martin and I have been following you since Covid , I was never able to give a like or comment due to limited internet access and wi-fi. I am able to verify that without your contribution to my sanity I would be a mess today. Thank you for every video you have made and posted, it is what made things bearable, I am forever grateful to you, thank you 🙏
I really enjoyed this video. I've watched several other crossings but they always went through at night. This was much better and especially when you were through and in the Pacific.
I live in the Niagara region in ontario, my uncle and aunt lived in Peterborough and he used to take me on the Peterborough lift lock cruise - I have a 13 yo son and this video got me thinking I should take him on the lift lock cruise, i'm sure he would absolutely love it!
Hello there from Campbell River, I really love your videos, one question, the catamaran has a TRANSPONDER, I have been trying to locate NAHOA, not been able to do it, safe sail across the Pacific.
Woops, I accidentally deleted my comment from this morning while I was cleaning up my RUclips history. Sorry. Thanks to everyone who voted to keep Ben's voice-overs. 👍
US Army Jungle Warfare course in 1985. A platoon from Victoria attached to a battalion from the US 82nd Airborne division. Ft Sherman was an interesting place back then.
That was very cool! I would have loved to be on board to do this! Whenever I get a chance to hop on a boat, I'm the first to jump in to throw fenders and lines and make sure everything goes smoothly! Just love this stuff! 👌👍♥️🇨🇦
Great video curious did you consider using the Strait of Magellan? Or would that route have taken you too far south and the Pacific? Versus all the fees of the Panama Canal.
I was stationed in Panama with the U.S. Military during the 1980’s, which was the Panama Canal transition from the U.S. to Panama control. The U.S. military left Panama in 1999. This was the year Panama took full control of the canal.
The battery entrance at 4:08 looks a lot like the WW1 battery at Ft Totten that I explored when I lived there as a teenager. Similarly overgrown, but built from almost the same plans.
There are other options not mentioned. Also expensive, but options. You can have your yacht transported as cargo on a large ship or you can be trucked.
Here ya go kids 😂 I joke with my kids too. I thought that was sweet, the kids cheersing with their cups too. Glad you guys made it. I'm sure the extra crew had an awesome time too..
Hello nehoa crew Ben I have a question how do you get ahold of starlink for the portable Wi-Fi when you're sailing on the first or second of June I want to order a starlink but I cannot get in contact with them I've tried everything the other day to find out about a portable system like that and I cannot find out nothing can you give me some info on that?
I hear there is a water shortage at the Lake that may shut down the lock. Is that true? How does that make replenish it's water? Kids are growing so fast. Blessings ❤️
A cascading south american design is just like the old water management at their farms. In the manner of concentric circles where updraft keeps the water year round
Maybe you heard some fake news about Panama canal situation. Here is always raining in wet season, specially there because the Canal is in a Jungle zone, so it´s never gonna get dry. In dry season the lake mantein its level due water reservoirs and the Gatun dam it could be some difficulties sometimes due the climate change, but government are developing strategies to managing the traffic and making a new alternative road for the containers through the isthmus
Historically the term "battery" referred to a cluster of cannon in action as a group, either in a temporary field position during a battle or at the siege of a fortress or a city. Such batteries could be a mixture of cannon, howitzer, or mortar types.
I can say I slept on lake gatun. They left us for 3 days we ran out of beer that was in 2007 we were delivering a 2005 lagoon 440 to haleiwa Hawaii from fort Lauderdale Florida. Had to take a 15-mile dingy ride one way just to get supplies. Had the single-handed sailor Japanese guy with only one arm aboard from colon Panama to lake gatun. He had to leave to go back to his boat to get it ready to go through the canal. Also the first time I ever heard howler monkeys.
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The narration/voiceovers are greatly improved! Ben - you sound much more relaxed and comfortable. I know narration is hard, so WELL DONE! 😊
Thank you. Always trying to improve although feedback is sometimes tough to hear 🤙
@@SailingNahoa Real great video
I sure miss seeing you guys on a regular basis. Congratulations on another success.
Not your typical Panama video. Very cool Nahoa!
thanks. Learnt a lot about the canal while editing!
Fair winds and following seas, Nahoa crew! Congrats on conquering the Panama Canal-excited to see your next circumnavigation adventure unfold! 🌊⛵🌍
Wow, what an experience to enjoy! Kudos to Peter and Monica for helping out and seeing the Panama canal from such a unique perspective!
Very cool! I have now been through the canal 5 times. Twice helping others and 3 times on our own boat, a K Peterson 44 cutter. It was right when the canal was being turned over to Panama. Once admeasured, (about $350, we could transit for $90! So went E to W, W to E and and then back over to the Pacific to stay. Loved cruising Panama, both sides. We were going to stay there for 2 wks, but spent 2 yrs. Great cruising and Scuba (our other passion).
We ran charters in the San Blas for a very lucrative season. Then the Las Pearlas. We didn’t have RUclips to make money with. So took people on 1-2 wk charters, sailing and diving. Usually 2-3 months of chartering paid for the rest of the year! Have followed you guys from the beginning. Great documentation. THANK YOU. And bless your wonderful family.
Great informative video with a great mix of old and new film. 👍to the crew too. Always a pleasure to watch you so thankYou for bringing us along. 😊😊
What a great crew, and Ashley's mom got to experience the canal!
Incredible!! it's such a massive experience. Hard to imagine all those workers doing this complicated work every day. takes so much discipline and focus. Happy trails on the Pacific guys!
Yeah, the Pilot was really cool and sure helped running all the lines. I wonder if they have different pilots for different ships in the canal? I would think there's a different skillset for sail boats and container ships. The traffic control is amazing as well. Hard working folks. ❤
Thanks guys, really interesting. Nice job working your way through the Canal.
Stay safe we love y'all. 👍🏻💕🐾
Learned so much from your experience things I never knew about the panama canal. Fascinating!
Crazy how Ft. Sherman has been overgrown like that. I was there while serving in the Marines for about 6 weeks. I helped teach jungle warfare classes jointly with the Army, while on alert as the Air Contingency Battalion for the 1st Mar Div. We lived in those same barracks while I was there. How things have changed since 1988.
Such a wonderful video! I would love to go through the Panama canal, how exciting! Great to have the 2 friends and your mom onboard as well. I have been looking for a new video, so glad all is well and you went safely through the Panama canal! ❤
Congratulations on your incredible journey through the Panama Canal 🎉🎉🍾🍾🍾 prayers for continued safe travels 🙏🙏🥰⛵️⛵️
Absolutely amazing footage taking us along through the Panama Canal!! And Canadian maple syrup is the best! 🇨🇦
Hooray for the maple syrup plug. You guys are the best ambassadours du canada in decades. Thankyou for being you.
Well done Kim, Monica and Peter. Good work.
Amazing experience! Huge thanks to Ben and Ashley!!!
It was an unbelievable experience, really! Ben and Ashley were amazing hosts!
Well done guys! This definitely brings back memories of our crossing!
Yes in the 1920s Oxy-acetylene welding,in the UK so I am sure it was around in America They were two gases from tall tanks piped to what they call a torch with a welding rod that was for different types and depths of metal. Also you had to make sure you switched the knobs to get the right blue center white flame for the heat. I used to weld that way also could be used under water if an expert for that jobs.
Safe journey you guys! Sometimes we watch your journeys and wonder how you deal with those seas! Thanks for sharing another great video!
I hope to be a good as dad as Ben. You really are a role model.
Love you guys! I really like the v-neck Nahoa t-shirts. Safe travels. ❤
The history and animations were very informative. Well done. Thank you for sharing.
That first bridge you went under is new since the last time you traveled the canal.
Absolutely wonderful share of your second crossing. This is on my bucket list!!!! Ya'll always give the best show and narrative of your experiences. Go Well into the gorgeous Pacific. ⛵
I really enjoyed this video! How much does it cost a vessel like yours to use the canal?
So cool to see all the details of a Panama Canal crossing! Wauw! Been wondering gor a while, whats up with the German flag? Is your boat registered there? Safe sailing!
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A fascinating video and did not realise you were able to do your own line handling. I had heard there were issues with water levels in Lake Gatun to serve the needs of the canal so great you could get through. My only comment is that I was truly surprised you were not wearing gloves as having somebody suffer a rope burn would be bad news. Here's to the next set of videos from the Pacific. Enjoy!!!
I had an older cousin stationed in Panama in the 80s. I need to see if he may have been stationed their. Panama canal videos amazes me, the engineering behind it. Thanks for a great video
I suspect that the lock doors are riveted because they're made of black iron. I have read that it lasts a long time. It can't be welded. Old ships were riveted also.
Congrats. What a great episode. The new beginning or moire great adventures. Thank you for sharing with us
OMG I must have missed this video. Love y'alls new intro! Stay blessed..🙂
Not many kids in the world will ever get the chance to experience what you’re allowing your little ones too, I applaud you for giving them the chance to have such a great adventure.
What they’re getting won’t be available for much longer, hell, I got a visit from the police when someone complained about me climbing trees with my son when he was 5 😢
Your kids will one day thank you for allowing them to experience growing up this way.
You may want to read Wavewalker about the losses the writer sustained from her parents placing their sailing adventures ahead of what children need.
@@maggierayner9408 Which is not what is going on here. This is a great example of balancing risk and reward. We have risks no matter where we live. Great parenting exposes children to as much of life as you can, while you can. I now question traditional schooling v homeschooling since you can provide awesome education whiles howing your kids what they are learning. The dangers in schools are truly greater than ever, as an example.
i'm totally locked in with you guys
Thanks for the great informative video. Fair winds on the Pacific
Hi guys my name is Martin and I have been following you since Covid , I was never able to give a like or comment due to limited internet access and wi-fi.
I am able to verify that without your contribution to my sanity I would be a mess today. Thank you for every video you have made and posted, it is what made things bearable, I am forever grateful to you, thank you 🙏
Don't buy into all the propaganda or the j_-ab.
I really enjoyed this video. I've watched several other crossings but they always went through at night. This was much better and especially when you were through and in the Pacific.
That was really great! I enjoyed the black and white clips too! Very interesting! Thank you for the explanations along the way.
Awesome vid and really pleased to see your still so full of life and enjoying your sailing, stay safe
I went over that bridge about 6 weeks ago!
What a great video!
Thanks sooo much for taking us along, not sure if I will ever get a chance to do this for real!
I spent a couple weeks at Howard Air Force Base in the very early 90’s. Weird to see things abandoned, sure makes me feel old!!
I live in the Niagara region in ontario, my uncle and aunt lived in Peterborough and he used to take me on the Peterborough lift lock cruise - I have a 13 yo son and this video got me thinking I should take him on the lift lock cruise, i'm sure he would absolutely love it!
Thanks for sharing your experience. I throughly enjoyed this episode
Brilllllliant Nahoa - thanks for the inspiration and sharing ⛵️
That was just awesome to watch….somehow sweeter than the first! Thank you for sharing. Cheers 🥂 LadyD
Hello and goodbye from one of your Panama viewers (Pacific coast)! 🇵🇦 Safe onward travels! 🧡
Assuming vids are behind, are ya linin' up to visit Canada's east coast this summer?
What happened to the Mono overnight, 2nd leg? Addition of old footage was interesting, not seen before, seemed more military focussed vs civil
Great video guys! First time I see one of your videos...
Thank you for sharing an exciting experience on the Panama canal, so interesting
Hello there from Campbell River, I really love your videos, one question, the catamaran has a TRANSPONDER, I have been trying to locate NAHOA, not been able to do it, safe sail across the Pacific.
My father who passed away at 88 years old in 2014 defended the Panama, Canal in World War II yet strangers get to pass through how lucky you are
Woops, I accidentally deleted my comment from this morning while I was cleaning up my RUclips history. Sorry.
Thanks to everyone who voted to keep Ben's voice-overs. 👍
Congratulations again. What an awesome experience.
So happy to see you guys, I've been looking.
How wonderful to have 3 generations for such an epic adventure.
US Army Jungle Warfare course in 1985. A platoon from Victoria attached to a battalion from the US 82nd Airborne division. Ft Sherman was an interesting place back then.
That was very cool! I would have loved to be on board to do this! Whenever I get a chance to hop on a boat, I'm the first to jump in to throw fenders and lines and make sure everything goes smoothly! Just love this stuff! 👌👍♥️🇨🇦
Loved the "just kidding. I'm not gonna feed these people." A smooth transit for second round🙂
Great video curious did you consider using the Strait of Magellan? Or would that route have taken you too far south and the Pacific? Versus all the fees of the Panama Canal.
I was stationed in Panama with the U.S. Military during the 1980’s, which was the Panama Canal transition from the U.S. to Panama control. The U.S. military left Panama in 1999. This was the year Panama took full control of the canal.
I would love it if, on your second time round, you would visit Busselton Western Australia. It would be great to meet you.
The battery entrance at 4:08 looks a lot like the WW1 battery at Ft Totten that I explored when I lived there as a teenager. Similarly overgrown, but built from almost the same plans.
Yay been waiting for these videos!!!
❤you guys!! Keep getting off the boat and exploring
What a treat !!! Tyvm 🙏
Thank YOU guys for posting!
You were looking at the trail through the barracks. That is from vampire bats. Their poop is more yucky liquid than pelleted like other bars.
Oh cool. Thanks! Reading about it.... Their food source is the blood of other animals, a dietary trait called hematophagy...
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is also hot riveted. 1932.😊
There are other options not mentioned. Also expensive, but options. You can have your yacht transported as cargo on a large ship or you can be trucked.
Would you do a south Australia passage rather than north
I SOOO LOVE MAPLE SYRUP LOL
I had been transiting the Panama Canal twice a remarkable experience
Exactly where was this old WWll military base? Most interesting. I'd like Google it for more history. Thanks.
More please! Nahoa is BACK!!
Welcome to the Pacific Ocean , Nahoa!
Here ya go kids 😂 I joke with my kids too. I thought that was sweet, the kids cheersing with their cups too. Glad you guys made it. I'm sure the extra crew had an awesome time too..
The skinny line is called a heaving line! Great video love how you cut in the old military clips…well done!
So cool guys! Great adventure. ⛵🌅
I’m retired Marine and I was doing jungle survival courses at Fort Sherman Panama 1981 and I was living in those barracks
What skills did you learn in jungle survival. Sounds heavy duty...
Hello nehoa crew Ben I have a question how do you get ahold of starlink for the portable Wi-Fi when you're sailing on the first or second of June I want to order a starlink but I cannot get in contact with them I've tried everything the other day to find out about a portable system like that and I cannot find out nothing can you give me some info on that?
I love traveling with you, thank you!❤
13,413th tag-along view gonna happen... "...civilization - see ya!!" (best sailing channel tag line).
Welcome to Panamá...
How much was the passage this time? I hear it's around $3000?
My Grandfather was stationed in Panama during WW1 Thanks for a snapshot of the area he was in.
I hope that package was road freight. Those soda stream gas bottles are a no no air freight.
Lol the abandoned barracks.. it looks like a murder scene 😮🥴
I hear there is a water shortage at the Lake that may shut down the lock. Is that true? How does that make replenish it's water?
Kids are growing so fast. Blessings ❤️
I believe the water shortage is mostly gone due to some good rainfall. Lots of rivers and estuary’s flow into lake Gatun and replenish it
A cascading south american design is just like the old water management at their farms. In the manner of concentric circles where updraft keeps the water year round
Missed you guys!
ONTARIO PROUD 😊
What happen when the lake run dry?
Maybe you heard some fake news about Panama canal situation. Here is always raining in wet season, specially there because the Canal is in a Jungle zone, so it´s never gonna get dry.
In dry season the lake mantein its level due water reservoirs and the Gatun dam
it could be some difficulties sometimes due the climate change, but government are developing strategies to managing the traffic and making a new alternative road for the containers through the isthmus
Good luck guys
Pretty darn cool, again!
Historically the term "battery" referred to a cluster of cannon in action as a group, either in a temporary field position during a battle or at the siege of a fortress or a city. Such batteries could be a mixture of cannon, howitzer, or mortar types.
Brilliant video. Safe journey
Here we go again.WOO HOOOO...
I can say I slept on lake gatun. They left us for 3 days we ran out of beer that was in 2007 we were delivering a 2005 lagoon 440 to haleiwa Hawaii from fort Lauderdale Florida. Had to take a 15-mile dingy ride one way just to get supplies. Had the single-handed sailor Japanese guy with only one arm aboard from colon Panama to lake gatun. He had to leave to go back to his boat to get it ready to go through the canal. Also the first time I ever heard howler monkeys.