I see that the Panama Canal Expansion scheme was officially inaugurated today, with a Chinese ship passing through the long-awaited third set of locks.

I can't see any references to how this might affect yacht's passage times, but I do see that container ships are now set to increase in size from the present Panamax at 5,000 TEU to the New Panamax at 13,000-14,000 TEU (TEU = "twenty-foot equivalent unit", a half-size container). There will be some very much bigger ships out there on the oceans.