Captain Morgan Hid His Gold in This Cave | SSL781

Everyone on San Andrés will tell you Captain Henry Morgan hid his gold in a cave on the west side of the island. The cave is real. The gold has never been found — and the ship it was supposedly on broke apart on a reef in Panama in 1671. This week Sophisticated Lady is anchored in Seaflower, the same bay the Puritans, then Morgan, then a World Court all tried to claim, and we open the crates that took longer to get here than we did by sailboat. What's in the episode: the Seaflower Puritans of 1631, Captain Morgan and the Satisfaction, Cueva de Morgan and what the divers found at Chagres, the 2012 and 2022 Hague rulings that kept the island Colombian and gave about 75,000 km² of sea to Nicaragua, the Raizal people and the church on the hill — then a Sunday morning aboard with Ricci, and the first look at the gear for the next Field Test season: BougeRV 200W TOPCon bifacial shade-tolerant panels, the BougeRV Solar Bimini with 200W built into the dinghy canvas, and Redodo LiFePO4 starter and dual-purpose batteries with Bluetooth. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Crates beat us to San Andrés 0:42 Puritans, Captain Morgan & a deck of cardboard 1:14 Geography: Seaflower & who owns what 1:50 Seaflower ship → Old Providence 1631 2:41 Captain Morgan documented — December 1670 3:17 Cueva de Morgan (the gold story) 3:46 Historians, Satisfaction & Chagres 1671 4:11 World Court: island yes, waters redrawn 4:43 Raizal culture & Creole in the law books 6:12 Sunrise liveaboard morning 8:02 Coffee & Baileys with Maddy 9:05 Uncle Jersey box for Ricci 12:08 Miami Field Test crates — handshake 12:53 BougeRV 200W TOPCon bifacial solar — shade tolerant 14:53 BougeRV Solar Bimini — 200W in the dinghy canvas 17:48 Redodo LiFePO4 starters & dinghy bank 23:47 Mangrove birthday · Ricci fishing 24:42 Pizza night in Maddy's Italian Galley 24:56 Thanks · subscribe GEAR SEEN IN THIS EPISODE (Field Tests to follow once installed) BougeRV 200W TOPCon bifacial fixed-mount panels · BougeRV Solar Bimini Top (200W N-type) · Redodo 12.8V LiFePO4 100Ah starter (Group 22NF, Bluetooth) · Redodo 165Ah dual purpose · CopperCoat antifouling Some of this gear was supplied by the manufacturers. Every item gets the same test, and each earns its own video only when it is installed and working. The historical sequences in this episode are AI-generated reenactments — no real people are depicted. Church reference photo: First Baptist Church, La Loma — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GO DEEPER — TEAM SSL CREW ON PATREON The systems library. Build breakdowns and wiring diagrams. What everything actually cost. The mistakes I'd rather you didn't repeat — twenty-one years' worth. Plus the Come Aboard Draw. https://www.patreon.com/SailingSophisticatedLady ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sailingsophisticatedlady Watch SSL780 (We Couldn't Slow Down): https://youtu.be/vcFzrZhDDD4 Watch SSL779 (San Blas reefs): https://youtu.be/tpXWQiXwlXw #SanAndres #CaptainMorgan #Sailing #Liveaboard #Seaflower Sailing Sophisticated Lady · Captain Rick Moore · 21 years / 120,000+ miles living aboard