The Adventure Doesn’t Start Until the First Thing Goes Wrong

Les unearthed this quote and cast it my way for me to contemplate. Mull it over I did. The deepest … Continue reading The Adventure Doesn’t Start Until the First Thing Goes Wrong

June 1st 2026: The Beginning of Cruising Season

It began as it always does. Hours of groundwork, planning, list formulation, developing operational schemes that unfold over time and … Continue reading June 1st 2026: The Beginning of Cruising Season

Raveling… is a contronym. That means that it can describe both the act of tangling and depending on use: Untangling. … Continue reading The Captivating Contronym: Raveling

Come gather ’round people wherever you roamAnd admit that the waters around you have grownAnd accept it that soon you’ll … Continue reading The Times They Are A-Changin’. Bob Dylan. 1963

O…Dark…30: Nautical twilight. Garrison Bay. The sun is between 6 and 12 degrees below the horizon. At those angles, there … Continue reading An October Passage: Garrison Bay to Port Ludlow . Late October, 2025.

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! It has been reported that David Glasgow Farragut, a rear admiral or some such … Continue reading The Pleasures of Navigating Through Fog

We’ve read many good things about Burgoyne Bay on Salt Spring Island. Mostly. Good things portrayed by the writers of … Continue reading Burgoyne Bay, West Coast of Salt Spring Island, BC, A Tangled Enigma…

The Salish Sea was whispering it’s siren song to us. Beckoning. Enticing. Sweet-talking. We’d been preoccupied and had not slipped … Continue reading Garrison Bay, English Camp, Young Hill, June 2025.

Juxtapose those two data points in the title together in a symbiotic manner… good weather and time to play… And … Continue reading 3/1/25. Twas Brillig. And… We Had a Nice Long Winterish Weather Window to Play With…