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Leo Goolden sails Tally Ho 50 miles from the San Blas Islands (Gunayala) to Linton Bay, Panama, for a scheduled haulout to do below-waterline work.Watch The boatyard delays the lift by several days due to travel-lift maintenance and a crowded yard, so Goolden rows the anchorage instead.5:19 Linton Bay is described as one of the only truly all-directions-sheltered ports on the Caribbean side of Panama, which draws a concentration of long-distance cruisers.3:28 Goolden helps a solo British-Canadian sailor named Matthew remove a genoa for six-month storage — furled sails left unattended risk UV damage and unrolling in wind — and interviews him about his cruising model: six months sailing, six months working at wilderness and fishing lodges in Canada to fund the next season.11:17 Matthew's route plan is a circumnavigation of North America via the U.S. East Coast and Northwest Passage, returning to Victoria, BC.14:30 The central practical argument Matthew makes is that sailors should choose the smallest boat they can live with rather than the largest they can afford, because costs scale exponentially with size and oversized projects strand people in boatyards for years instead of getting them sailing.15:20

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