After several months spent in Latin America - Brazil, Guyana and Colombia - it is now time for Aurélie, Sarah, Nael and their little Mia - already 4 months old - to continue their journey to Panama. For to pass into the Pacific Ocean, they will use the famous artificial tunnel.
But in the meantime, direction the San Blas, a paradisiacal archipelago located in the Caribbean Sea and attached to Panama. It is at night - to preserve the children - that the family will set sail from Colombia, for this navigation of more than 200 miles (about 41 hours).
And it is finally the engine that will make the first part of this trip, the wind having decided to play the absent, leaving a sea of oil. A first for Sarah, who shares with us this incredible feeling of freedom that comes from travelling by sailboat: no land on the horizon, the impression of being alone in the world.
During this long crossing, we have to keep busy, so we're trolling, but above all we're dealing with the children. Especially Mia, difficult to calm down on this second night at sea.
It's finally when everyone has gone to bed that Sarah will take her night shift, lying in the cockpit, enjoying the tropical heat and the stars illuminating the sky. "One of the reasons for living on a boat."
It is finally in the morning that the crew of the yacht Maloya will join the San Blas, after a restless night in unstable weather. Indeed, throughout the night, they will have to watch out for the big lightning flashes in the vicinity - certainly far from the boat, but causing squalls.
