Well. It seems that we have had arranged for us (maybe) a subcontractor’s manufacturing recall of our boat’s windscreen. It sounds like a fairly straightforward refit but it has impelled us to make a 200-mile detour back south to have the Fox available for inspection at some now-indeterminate time in early May. In order to…
As lovely as Princess Louisa is, we had to move on: a small power boat rendezvous for Easter weekend and we simply couldn’t bear to have more boats in the anchorage. Plus, no fishing was allowed there so if one had a fishing license like GB had, why bother futzing about? There was no point…
Princess Louisa Inlet has long been a favored destination for many boaters in the PacNW. In the 1930s, many decades before it was a marine park, Muriel Wylie Blanchet visited frequently with her dog and 5 kids on her 25-foot motor boat*. According to some people Princess Louisa remains the holy grail of the world’s…
Unencumbered by any wind whatsoever, we circumnavigated Saltspring Island and on 29. March anchored in Montague Harbour at Galiano Island, one of our favorite places in the Gulf Islands. Sometimes when moving through the Gulf Islands one sees the coolest boats, like this tall old girl headed south in Trincomali Channel: The weather was nice,…
When we left Sidney, we took the advice of a friend and a couple of publications and checked out Maple Bay, just north and west of Sansum Narrows. On the chart it looked like a fine place to be sheltered from practically all weather. Alas. Maple Bay has a lot of McMansions in the process…
What a mess – the house bank – 2003 Our sailboat came with a Mastervolt system on board – common to European boats-I understand they have not made much headway with the American public. They seem a good product – German – though somewhat costly when compared to the many alternatives. We run 550 amp…
31.January 2007 – Garrison Bay, San Juan Island. Not knowing what more to expect from the Underwater Mud Entity, we chose to move the heck on. After a very challenging engine startup* we chose to motor instead of sail so as to recharge all the Fox’s gel batteries. Destination: Canada. Chosen port of entry: Bedwell…
30.January 2007 – As usual the cold, clear night passed uneventfully in Aleck Bay, Lopez Island. The water was lit by a full moon that gave way to a rosy winter sunrise. Which within the hour turned to fog – but fotunately that was only temporary. As the fog burned off, the engine was again…
This time, our delay in posting has been due to vagaries of signal availability, successive bouts of stomach flu (GB, ever the gentleman, went first), and overall laziness and disorganization. 28.January 2007 – An auspicious beginning: weather was sunny, clear and cold (30s-40sF) with wind too light for sailing. MS celebrated her birthday by handing…
Well – its about time I wrote something in this bog. When I retired about 12 weeks ago, I decided not to write anything until I finally got the boat underway. A fellow who I inadvertently insulted in one of my post suggested that I did not really have any competency to speak about sailboats…