Our First Snow Day of the Season… 2/13/21
Last night… the single and solitary frozen crystals drifting from the clouds gave way to a cornucopia of fledgling glider … Continue reading Our First Snow Day of the Season… 2/13/21
Northwest Boating Travels With Blair, Les, and Leo
Cruising Great Northern, Our DeFever 53, Throughout the Northwest
Last night… the single and solitary frozen crystals drifting from the clouds gave way to a cornucopia of fledgling glider … Continue reading Our First Snow Day of the Season… 2/13/21
It is snowing. I’m not talking about a North Dakota or High Sierra type of snow that fills the nostrils … Continue reading The Dinosaurs (Birds) of Port Ludlow; 2/11/21
While we have undergone some great cruising in late fall, early winter and in the “dead” of winter, we do … Continue reading Cruising in the PNV By Foot Power; 1/28/21
In 2006, the journalist and screenwriter Nora Ephron published an essay in The New Yorker about her love affair with the Apthorp, … Continue reading The Meaning of Home; 1/24/21 (Of course that could change in 20 minutes…)
We departed Langley at 0800 bound for Anacortes. It was a drizzly morning. While we were out to pick up … Continue reading Langley to Anacortes Via the Swinomish Canal; A Mid-Winter Cruise Part II; 1/24/21
It has been quite some time since I wrote and pushed out a blog post. The tragedy of the pandemic … Continue reading A Midwinter Blog Entry; 1/23/21
Over the past 18 months or so while actively cruising about the Salish Sea and Puget Sound, we have visited … Continue reading About Our 2020 Holiday Season… (12/24/20)
Dawn crept out of the silky night with the subtlety of a jaguar stalking its prey in the deep shadows … Continue reading A Day In the Life: Hiking Around Gibbs Lake… 12/2/20
There are two types of sailors… Well of course, there are many more than two. There are racers, cruisers, armchair … Continue reading Anatomy of a Passage: Gig Harbor to Port Madison, 12/7/20
If money is the oxygen on which the fire of global warming burns, then P.R. campaigns and snappy catchphrases are … Continue reading Quote of the Day… 11.21.20