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Just when Amazon’s new payment service was starting to catch on for us, they decide to cut us off. They recently updated their policies to prohibit services that dealt with “travel-related” or “tour operator” services. Somehow, we fall into that category, so we got put on the DENIED list. 🙁

Paypal still works fine for most people. I’ll continue to seek out efficient and competitive payment services for our sailing trips. Thanks for everyone’s understanding and sorry for any inconvenience because of this development.

The trip to Cartagena thus far had been fairly painless, but staggeringly long. The winds, which had cooperated fairly well through the first night, became adverse. It also didn’t help that we were sailing head-on into a current that had to be pushing against Andiamo at the rate of 3-4 knots. Considering a usual trip from Panama to Cartagena takes about 30 to 35 hours on average, it was clear that we weren’t going to be making it in anywhere near that time.
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