There are many ways to travel to Mexico by boat. Some people join large rallies out of Southern California like the Baja Ha-Ha or the FUBAR rally for power boats, I suppose for the cameraderie and planning that an organized event provides. Other folks buddy-boat with one or two other vessels for short passages or…
California, that is. We arrived in Monterey in the early evening of August 28, 2007, and we plan to head further south on Saturday, September 1, as early as possible. Fog permitting. Har. We scored a great slip at the Municipal Marina (sorta tight entrance fairway, boys!) but found we had arrived at precisely the…
The passage from Bamfield BC to Newport, Oregon, took 38 hours: two full days and one night. Coming in to Newport from offshore, we dodged a bazillion crab pots – including a set that some entrepreneur placed right in the middle of the fairway between two entrance buoys. Between the tuna boats and the crabbers,…
Bears. Our ursine friends are alive and well and foraging the shoreline in select locations on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Problem is, the trees grow all the way down to the high water line, so you can’t see any of them unless you venture from the boat by dinghy onto their turf. As…
Still catching up, here. The haulout with which we began our latest Urban Adventure in Seattle went quite well, all things considered. It had been 2-1/2 years since our last haul for routine maintenance, and we returned to our favorite Seattle boat yard, Canal Boat Yard to get ‘er done again. One need only obtain…
We had a fine time before we left Sidney on March 28. We had spent two winter months there just like we had imagined years ago during our first winter trip to Sidney. We were able to accomplish many of the boat projects we had not completed while still in Seattle; and we had a…
Meet Odin. He’s the construction barge-with-crane that the Port of Seattle has retained to rebuild the docks hereabouts at Shilshole Marina . Odin’s shown here, working on the dock next to ours. He’s been roughly 100 feet from the Fox since about the week before Thanksgiving 2006. He’s very good at what he does, every…
Following GB’s lead, I left The Job on December 19, 2006. Boy, I’m sure going to miss that paycheck showing up every two weeks in the checking account via electronic magic. Bye-bye, Nice Money. Bye-bye. On the other hand, there are a few things I don’t expect to miss: 1. Getting my sorry carcass out…