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)…
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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 …
Winter Dream’in – Part 2
I’ve been fussing further with the track data I extracted from the navigation computer and have uploaded all our anchorages up to both the Microsoft and Google mapping sites. These can be opened up as a separate browser windows and don’t requ…
Winter Dream’in
While looking out at the Seattle winter grayness it is fun to relive this summer’s journeys. I pulled from the navigation computer the tracks recorded by the software. I’ve exported them into a file that can be opened in Google Earth (softwar…
September 3-19 – Propped Migration
Rather than pretend I am keeping up the blog by back dating entries, this post is a roll-up of things since Ketchikan. There is a wonderful movie about birds, Winged Migration. I feel as though we’ve become a part of a human equivalent by joining th…
Ketchikan – August 30
After six weeks of poking around north and west of Ketchikan, we motored back into Bar Harbor marina this afternoon. Before pulling in, we stopped at the fuel dock and took on 200 gallons of fuel. I estimate that we had somewhat over 300 gallons of f…
