Saturday, May 4: Gorge HarbourThe sunshine and Lasqueti nudists not only caused us to overheat, but also the engine manifold and stabilizers got hot too! Yesterday the manifold was reading 167F while the engine was a steady 161F. The engine…
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#2013-03: Lasqueti Island Nudist Show
Thursday, May 2: Ganges Harbor and Clam BayThe current was against us up the east side of southern Vancouver Island. We eventually stopped in Ganges to buy the parts to plumb the water sterilizer. After this pit stop we motored a few more h…
Happy Family
Imagine packing up your young family, three kids from 4 to 8 years old, kissing the jobs good bye and heading off on a sailboat around the world. That is what the S/V Totem family did five years ago. I first met them in Mexico where we all nerv…
#2013-02: Going south to Alaska: Friday Harbor, Brentwood Bay and Victoria
Sunday April, 28th: Friday HarborThis morning Pat drove to Seattle to pick up our first guests of the 2013 season. The crew for the next few days are Augi and Cindy Caimi from “Gundo”. The Caimi’s were our neighbors in Gundo for about ten y…
Crew Change and New Adventures
It is with very mixed emotions that we announce a change in crew for Sojourner. She now belongs to Barry and Barbara and will be cruising out of Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. We wish them many great times on this very special vessel! For five years, almost to the day, Sojourner was the central focus of […]
Les Saintes
Had an easy ride over from St. Pitre Guadeloupe, to Les Sainte, a group of 8 small islands that is part of Guadeloupe — and therefore French and no need clear in — but an official just came out in a tender to tell us we had to move to behind the yell…
#2013-01 Our 2013 Alaska Cruise Begins
It’s Saturday, April 27th, 2013. We’re up early at San Jose Airport ready to fly to Seattle and Wild Blue. It will be a busy day as our first guests arrive tomorrow and the we need to prep the boat. We’ll split up: Pat will take the car to …
#2013-01 Our 2013 Alaska Cruise Begins
It’s Saturday, April 27th, 2013. We’re up early at San Jose Airport ready to fly to Seattle and Wild Blue. It will be a busy day as our first guests arrive tomorrow and the we need to prep the boat. We’ll split up: Pat will take the car to …
Honored Guests
We moved from Lovina, a lovely quiet anchorage to the hustle of southern Bali. I had a major battery problem that could only be looked at tied to a marina. Central Indo has one marina, and a shaky one at that, Bali Marina. It is located in the major s…
We Love the French for their Food
It kills me– all this cheese (and there was a separate cheese counter as well), and ironically they only stock fat-reduced creme fraiche! (View Post…)
