Along the West Coast of the US, warm summer air moving over cooler ocean water produces fog. In the usual summertime pattern, fog develops offshore, moves inland overnight, and lifts or dissipates the next morning. The fog can be light or heavy, localized or widespread, short-lived or lingering. Whether it’s characterized as marine fog, radiation…
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,…
We left Bamfield in Barkley Sound, BC, on August 5, 2007, at 0600. Environment Canada and NOAA characterized the 1-4-mile visibility fog as “heavy.” The Fox does not like fog very much but it was doable so we left with caution and a good dose of radar – the better to see the buckaroos who…
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…
"Sailing Logs"? Not much to log, when one cruises the San Juan and Gulf Islands, and the southern/central Strait of Georgia, other than "no wind today…foul current turning to fair as day progressed…motored 7 hours…anchored in sticky mud in 30 feet…13-foot tidal change…" and so on and etc. As a boat travels further north, "dodged…
The Proud Parent – "Gallant Fox" wrapped in plastic, newly arrived from Sweden. The Alaska Eagle is a 65′ Sparkman and Stevens designed cutter that was in the Whitbread around the World race sometime in the 1970’s or so. Its original name was "Flyer’ The boat is now operated as an ocean going classroom for…