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One of Panama City’s oldest bars, the Balboa Yacht Club sits just before the Amador Causeway. It’s an institution in the community, and locals frequent here. Chill with a cerveza Balboa on the covered wooden terrace, and take in views of the Bridge of the Americas and the ocean. Try a surprising item on the menu—Texas chili.

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Phone: +507 228 5196

CAUTION: When approaching from the south, do not turn into the mooring field until you are past buoy 14.5. There is a large sandbar stretching across the south end of the mooring field.

The Club offers swing moorings and provides a 24 hour Spanish speaking launch service (personal tenders are not allowed in the mooring field). Capacity is limited and it is difficult to obtain a buoy here during the high season (January through April). Reservations in advance are not possible.

The Clubhouse, which burnt down 1999, will never be rebuilt, but there is a new restaurant and bar open to the public. There are also showers, laundry, WiFi and haul out facilities, using a railway.

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With open-air dining under a thatched roof or red umbrellas, Balboa Yacht Club at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal offers laid-back atmosphere and live music on weekends. The menu includes familiar bar food, hamburgers and a seafood sampler. Open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily

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Located at the entrance of the Canal on the east side of the channel, is the Balboa Yacht Club in Balboa Harbor. They monitor VHF channel 6. Care must be taken to enter and turn right at buoy 14.5. Turning sooner will run you aground. The office phone is 507-228-5794. While there is no clubhouse, the Balboa Yacht Club is cruiser friendly. It can be rolly, but is a good place to transition when arranging for an advisor to board your boat for the transit of the Canal. It is also a safe place to leave your boat if you travel. They have railway haul out facilities, showers, and 24-hour water taxi service. Adjacent to the BYC is a hotel, The Country Inn, and a TGIF Friday’s restaurant.

Mooring ball is $0.65/ft/day

This marina does not require a credit card to hold the slip or any type of deposit. As a courtesy please notify the marina if you need to cancel your reservation at least 24 hours in advance.

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Location: Panama Categories: Marinas & Moorings

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Panama City – Where can you keep your boat on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal?

It can be a bit daunting figuring out where to stop on the Pacific Ocean side when you transit the canal. If your transit is similar to ours, you can arrive on the Pacific side of the canal well after dark. If you have crew and supplies to drop off, you will need to find somewhere to stay for a night. If you need to stock up, or find a part, Panama City is at your door step. So where can you stop?

I will list them closest to furthest.

Balboa Yacht Club

As you exit the last lock of the canal, and duck under the bridge of Americas, Balboa Yacht club is easy to pick up on the opposite shore. The long jetty, terminating in the fuel dock, is well lit and stands out easily at night. Call up on the VHF 06 and the water taxi drivers will give you a hand picking up a buoy for your vessels draft.

La Playita Marina

A short distance further up the canal, is the well hidden marina of La Playita. You will see the vessels anchored in the bay in front of the Marina, and well lit shops and restaurants that line the peninsula here, before you see the entrance. Come around the point and back on yourself to reach the entrance at the NNW corner of the bay.

La Playita Anchorage

Easy open anchorage with lots of space. $0/night (but there is a dingy dock fee of $50/week).

Flamenco Marina

Come around the peninsula and on the other side is the full service marina of Flamenco. This place has it’s own complete infrastructure, restaurants, bars and chandleries. Both diesel and petrol available at the fuel dock.

$150/night again for basic marine facilities including showers and WiFi. Bad points: Besides expensive, I am least familiar with this Marina so it is difficult for me to comment. Good points: You are on the same peninsula, so you have all the same good shops, restaurants, bars and access to the buses. The yard looked very busy with lots of hard working tradesmen. There also appeared to be lots of well appointed workshops on site.

Las Brisas Anchorage

Outside Flamenco Marina and stretching all along the NE side of the Peninsula is an extensive mooring and anchoring field. With a great view of the city, and a new dock cruiser can tie their dingy to, this anchorage is becoming more popular. You will want to try and get reasonably close to the dockage, but you will need to watch out for the vessels moored on buoys as they will not swing the same as you on anchor.

A little extra information

Taxi service Taxi’s are very reasonably priced in Panama. Most trips are only a few dollars, but they are happy to charge unaware tourists more. Uber taxi service is a great upload to your phone as it takes all the ‘haggling’ out of the process and you get a good price. Most taxi drivers are happy to drive you all around the city ($10-12/hr). Public Transport Cheap, clean, efficient and air conditioned . Regular buses (25c) run up and down the peninsula (Amador). All go to Albrook Mall, the transportation hub of Panama City. From there you can catch onward bus, the subway under the city (35c) or a coach to anywhere in and out of the country. WARNING Most of the city comes to a stand still at rush hours. If you find yourself still in the City Centre at rush hour may I suggest you give up. Take the subway to Albrook Mall or find a local restaurant to it wait out.

What did we do?

We stayed the first night in Balboa Yacht Club. We took advantage of their water taxi and restaurant to entertain our guests (line handlers). Having WiFi aboard the boat was nice.

Then we headed up the canal to give La Playita anchorage a try.  We liked it and dropped the hook there.

We have stayed here for a bit despite the occational wake from the big canal boats.  We put up with the wake because of me!  I want to go ashore for a run.  The water at La Playita is a little cleaner and there is a small beach that is sandy at low tide.

The humans were happy with the safe dingy dock and the WiFi access.

But then some southerly winds swept in and our lovely anchorage became a ‘bit’ choppy.  It was a simple matter to lift anchor and motor around the point to Las Brasis anchorage.  We ‘parked’ right behind some old neighbours from Shelter Bay Marina.

We now have a great view of Panama Cities sky line.

The area here is a bit too ‘urban’ for my liking.  But the humans like the shops, restaurants and easy access to the bus to do their running around.

So for now we are going to hang out at anchorage waiting for parts.  The vain of many a sailor.  Unfortunately our new forward looking sonar, by Echo Pilot, failed.  The company is sending us out a brand new one by FedEx.  Should arrive today.

But then we discovered that the SSB radio is broken?!?!  And the dive compressor is shredding its belts?!?!  We have to see if we can sort them as well.  Hopefully get those sorted this week.

Then we are off to the Las Perlas islands to wait for a weather window to cross the GREAT BIG Pacific Ocean.

Better get in the last of my walks.

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Congratulations on transiting the canal without mishaps. We anchored at Contadora in the Las Perlas Islands, water very clear and here. Other islands and anchorages not so good but maybe you will have a different experience

Thanks for advice. So late in season we will probably see very little of the Las Perlas islands. Just enough to get final sea trials in before grabbing a weather window for Pacific crossing. Nervous about lightning season starting!

Looks like you had a decent transit through the Canal and are getting to enjoy the last bit of big city luxury for a while.

Very unlucky with the equipment fails – but these things happen. Hope you get it sorted reasonably quickly and that you are ship shape for hitting the Pacific.

Enjoy and stay safe!

Thank you guys. Echo pilot company were good and sent us a new one from Denmark. But we have the expense of sending them the faulty goods back from Panama. SSB turned out to be good. It was a bad lead for power on the boat. Just the dive compressor to sort out. As dissappointing as it is to have equipment failures, there is a bright side. At least it happened before we left, and some where we could get it fixed!

You know how anal I am about spares, we only got to Falmouth and the wind vane packed up! Guess who had bought a spare wind vane?

I have taught you well Luke. You are a true Jeti Knight now. In a tight spot, instead of a light saber, you will pull out the right spare part.

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