In 2010, we hung around the Ketchikan area for about a month before rendezvousing with our friends Dorothy & Dave Nagle and their vessel the DavidEllis. During that time we explored a number of areas and identified some worth repeating. Specificall…
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June 11 – Photos at Last!
Since we have been moving north pretty relentlessly, we haven’t had time to take many photos. To liven up the text posts I have done to date, here are some photos. A panorama of about 150 degrees taken in Gorge Harbor. As the dark clouds hint, a ra…
June 3 to June 9 – Ketchikan or Bust
A little catching up to do as we haven’t been anywhere with Internet since we left Campbell River. Below is a chronology of the trip since Campbell River. Date Activity Mileage Position June 3 …
June 1 – Campbell River
We are tied up in Discovery Harbour Marina in Campbell River after a short passage from Gorge Harbour. Our next challenge is Seymour Narrows about 9 miles upstream from Campbell River. Typical max ebb or flood current is 10 to 15 knots. By a sl…
May 31 – Gorge Harbor
The relentless grind north proceeds. We departed shortly after 5 AM to start our 80 mile day north up the Strait of Georgia. This body of water is the northern section of the newly designated Salish Sea (the southern portion includes Puget Sound)…
5-30-2011 – Silva Bay
By comparison to yesterday’s bash up Puget Sound, today was leisurely. We elected to use Silva Bay on Gabriola Island as our jumping off point for running north up the Strait of Georgia. In the past we’ve used Nanaimo but moorage is pricey and it c…
5-29-2011 – We are off
I think we set a personal record for getting from Lake Union to outside the locks. We left our dock at 6:58 and were motoring from the locks by 7:57. That included opening two bridges and locking through the small locks. We didn’t h…
Ready to Leave (almost)
We moved onto the boat yesterday and will use today for settling back in and doing a final shutdown of the house. It is amazing how much we’ve forgotten in the nearly nine months from not having lived on the boat. We also like to do a couple of nigh…
Sad News
This is certainly off-topic from a cruising blog but this is my blog so I get to decide what to write about. Last Saturday, May 14, my mother, Vida Hanson, passed away. She was 94 years old. Her death was sudden in that she had no major chronic ailmen…
Summer Plans
You can tell Spring has arrived to the PNW. Days are longer, grass is growing and the rain is warmer. Everywhere you look people are starting on outdoor chores. Our cruising plans begin with a departure the last week of April or the first …
