The Beginning, 2/1/19
The light in the boathouse began a stealthy morph from a shadowed murk to the color of sooty cotton. Winter … Continue reading The Beginning, 2/1/19
Northwest Boating Travels With Blair, Les, and Leo
Cruising Great Northern, Our DeFever 53, Throughout the Northwest
The light in the boathouse began a stealthy morph from a shadowed murk to the color of sooty cotton. Winter … Continue reading The Beginning, 2/1/19
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
We’ve had them before… what yacht has flitted about the waterways without one? Eh? One does need perimeter security to … Continue reading An Introduction is in order: Our New Master-At-Arms
Les, Kai and I were fortunate enough to spend last winter on our boat at the Causeway Docks in front … Continue reading A Story I forgot to Tell: Takaya, a Wild Wolf We Had the Great Fortune to Meet on Vancouver Island
It is an easy thing to walk down the dock, open the car door, climb in and start the engine. … Continue reading 9/28/20 A Trip to the Post Office