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

The Meaning of Home; 1/24/21 (Of course that could change in 20 minutes…)

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

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