A white cruise ship is docked at a pier under a clear blue sky. It has two distinctive funnel towers, a canopy deck, and rows of small windows. A flag flies from the stern, where "Star Breeze" is faintly visible. The ship is secured to the concrete dock with heavy mooring lines.

Windstar Cruises

Costa Rica & Panama Canal

Panama Canal

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Wind Star

The ship the line is named after, still doing her original job at forty

Aboard

  • Four masts with computer-controlled self-furling sails, about 21,500 square feet
  • 148 guests, the smallest capacity in the fleet along with her sister Wind Spirit
  • Launched at Le Havre in November 1985 and in service since 1986
  • First ship in the fleet to complete both phases of the Setting Sails refit, in April 2026
  • Announced to join Star Breeze in French Polynesia on the Dreams of Tahiti run

Panama Canal

The Panama Canal

A hundred-year-old feat of engineering that lifts a ship eighty-five feet over a continent, and one of the few cruise days where nobody leaves the deck.

Best Time to Go
December through April, the dry season
Typical Length
10 to 15 nights
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