5.12.26 – Wednesday There is little that is quite so comforting as a long, relatively straight down-wind sail on easy seas, even if the motor is also running. The five and a half hour trip took us south of Savary Island south of Lund thence southwest to Deep Bay. We took the opportunity to sailContinue reading “Home stretch and last 200 or so miles”
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A Different Johnstone Strait, New Gunkholes, and Nostalgia: 7-11 May
Off-grid sailing has its advantages but pokes the guilty button of having not posted a thing since Port McNeill. I am trying to catch up during our morning in Lund, BC. Johnstone Strait can be formidable to the point of dissuading any save the intrepid Row2AK competitors that take what Mother Nature hands them inContinue reading “A Different Johnstone Strait, New Gunkholes, and Nostalgia: 7-11 May”
White Mountain, Barnaby Buttes, and Louis Lake – a short hiking adventure to central Washington
As a former neighbor and friend of mine since 1968 in Pocatello Idaho, Joe Hearst and I go back a long way. Besides hanging out off and on, hiking and camping on local hills, and playing kick the can at his place during the four years my family lived in Pocatello, Joe & I hikedContinue reading “White Mountain, Barnaby Buttes, and Louis Lake – a short hiking adventure to central Washington”
18 and 19 June – Dunvegan, Isle of Skye and Tarbert, Isle of Harris
18 June – Carbost to Dunvegan, Isle of Skye I served as today’s “navigator” and took pleasure last evening in laying out a multi-leg planned track to Dunvegan yesterday. We will start doing this more regularly aboard SY Encore!Today was a good-winds and otherwise banner day starting with a short upwind leg, a second hourContinue reading “18 and 19 June – Dunvegan, Isle of Skye and Tarbert, Isle of Harris”
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