In a previous post I have come out strongly against pressure cookers – primarily because I am a slow cooked food advocate -it takes time to make a proper stock or sauce. Also, I had never really tasted a well cooked meal from a pressure cooker. The few I had as boat meals from other…
Our travel NW up the Strait of Georgia was made more circuitous by some vagaries of the weather, which made it convenient to divert eastward back into the general Desolation Sound area we had visited last month. We traveled to the eastern side of Cortes Island to little Squirrel Cove (50deg.07.33N, 124deg.54.32W), arriving just as…
There we were, in Grace Harbour in Desolation Sound, back in early April when we were young. I took some photos there. What do you see? m
Nanaimo is a city on the eastern, south-central side of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The Hudson’s Bay Company made a killing here in the 1850s when they learned there was coal aplenty in the neighborhood. Gave them a break from the monotony of all that fur trading, don’t you know. Enough areas of…
So, we finally departed Seattle -again – on May 16, 2007. Zipped over to Port Ludlow, then up to Echo Bay at Sucia Island in the San Juans. Why yes; it IS one of our favorite routes, thanks-for-asking. One thing about the San Juans: when the currents are in your favor, they can REALLY be…
The main reason we returned to Seattle when we did, was that a subcontractor had issued a manufacturer’s recall for the aluminum frame of our boat’s windscreen. We and four other boats had the refitting work done in Lake Union, Seattle beginning May 5, and it went very well. Even the broker joined in the…
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…
So, we’re out of Seattle again after GB worked on the raw water/engine systems failure for 9 days. The primary dilemma was the failure of multiple engine system components – either sequential or coincidental, impossible to tell. Local marine-engine pundits and some experienced mechanics were unanimous in saying, "Gee, we’ve never seen this before!" Here’s…
We left Nanaimo to move the boat 200 miles south in mid-April to go to Seattle for the Great Malo Windshield Roundup. We had a defective windshield, and Malo was sending out a specialist to rebuild the windshields of five boats. So, our trip was cut short. We motored south through wind and tides, waiting…
May 7, 2007. Goodbye, Rita.