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26<br />
calendar competition<br />
crew calendar contest 2009<br />
Once again and for the 3rd consecutive<br />
year, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Crew</strong> <strong>Report</strong> is launching the<br />
annual Yacht <strong>Crew</strong> Calendar Competition<br />
featuring photos of crew, taken by crew! Each<br />
month of the calendar will be illustrated by the<br />
winning images and the calendar will be sent to<br />
all subscribers of <strong>The</strong> Yacht <strong>Report</strong> and <strong>The</strong> <strong>Crew</strong><br />
<strong>Report</strong>, affording budding photographers brilliant<br />
coverage. <strong>The</strong> winners will be announced in the<br />
October issue of the magazine in time for<br />
distribution at the Fort Lauderdale boat show.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rules are simple: All images submitted<br />
must feature a yacht and crew in some capacity.<br />
Winning photographs in the past have ranged<br />
from detailed and artistic abstracts to action<br />
shots of off-duty crew diving into the sea. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
are no restrictions on how many photos you<br />
can submit.<br />
To be in with a chance of winning please upload<br />
your images to the crewcalendar folder on our<br />
ftp site in a folder marked with your name:<br />
ftp.theyachtreport.co.uk<br />
username = crewcalendar<br />
password = crewcalendar<br />
<strong>The</strong>n let our Picture Editor Brooke Shaw know that<br />
you have done so, brooke@theyachtreport.com.<br />
You can also send CDs to our usual address.<br />
(All entries must be 300dpi, A4 size, which can<br />
be taken with a digital camera)<br />
<strong>The</strong> competition deadline<br />
is 1st September 2008!<br />
A selection of fabulous prizes will be announced<br />
in a forthcoming issue... So good luck and get<br />
snap happy!<br />
Juliet Benning<br />
Juliet@theyachtreport.com<br />
Tel: 0207 801 1014<br />
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ocean traveller<br />
paradise found in san blas<br />
If you want to take your yacht’s owner and guests to somewhere<br />
completely different, with exceptional fishing and diving grounds,<br />
the San Blas Islands offer a truly special cruising experience.<br />
Captain Mike Hein led his intrepid crew of Mea Culpa through<br />
the Panama Canal and on to these stunning islands still very<br />
much untouched by modern civilisation.<br />
Panama is normally seen as the gateway to the South Pacific. However,<br />
for a yacht built in New Zealand and that’s cruised to Tasmania, through<br />
the South Pacific to Hawaii and Alaska, we saw Panama this year as the<br />
gateway to the Caribbean. We have heard many stories of the fantastic Marlin,<br />
Tuna and Dorado fishing that abounds the Gulf of Panama, and I am happy to<br />
report that the fishery is alive and well.<br />
Located just off the southern coast of Northern Panama not far from the Costa<br />
Rican border is the stunning Isla de Coiba, a former penal colony renowned for<br />
the fact that no cells were necessary to confine the convicts. This is a special part<br />
of the world, largely because no one cruises here. <strong>The</strong>re are completely tranquil,<br />
fantastic anchorages along the mainland coast between Costa Rica and the<br />
entrance to the Gulf of Panama. A few such anchorages are Bahia Honda,<br />
Ensenada Santa Cruz, Isla Santa Catalina, as well as two airstrips on Isla Cebaco<br />
and Isla de Coiba. This permits charter planes to land easily and/or helicopter<br />
service. At the South end of Coiba is Isla Jicaron and Isla Jicarita, two shelters<br />
for anchoring and only a short distance to epic fishing and diving.<br />
January brought us to Piñas Bay and the Tropic Star Lodge. This is a world-renowned<br />
spot for gamefishing, boasting over 250 world records (of which 40 are still current). To<br />
maximise the fishing time in Piñas, we chartered a Twin-Otter through Mapiex from<br />
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