Tonight we will start our crossing of the Pacific!. We will leave Vista Mar Marina in Panama and head towards French Polynesia. For such a long time I have been looking forward to sitting down and writing my first post here on Facing the Pacific!. I have been based here in Panama for just over a month now and time has really flown. I came here eager to learn something completely new and I was impatiently looking forward to starting to sail immediately so that I could begin to experience this exciting new chapter in my life. Naively I had assumed that I would start learning when we put to…