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Two 2025 Adventures … at 70!

Our four month Southeast Alaska cruise aboard our Catalina 400 Mk2 sloop was perhaps a substantial prelude as we step into decade number seven. We have carefully planned two trips this spring and early summer, the first coming up next week to Croatia where we will attend a week-long All American Rowing Camp and capContinue reading “Two 2025 Adventures … at 70!”

Thursday – Tuesday, 22-27 August 2024 … and HOME!

Thursday, 22 AugustEffingham Bay to Turtle Bay by way of Wouwer Island, Broken Group Islands, Barkley Sound: (48-52.0N 125-21.3W) (48-55.0N 125-19.7W)So much rain has fallen in the past few days, first circumnavigating Estevan Point to Quiet Cove and over twelve straight hours last night of heavy downpour, that the anchor light flooded out. We areContinue reading “Thursday – Tuesday, 22-27 August 2024 … and HOME!”

North Vancouver Island: 11 to 16 August

Sunday, 11 AugustBrowning Inlet to Winter Harbor: 50-30.7N 128-01.7WA short 30-minute trip at noon put us dockside at Winter Harbor Outpost at which we enjoyed paid-for the WiFi by which I sent my last posting. I realized a day late that I had a pretty cool track of our crossing on the new NavStation Garmin.Continue reading “North Vancouver Island: 11 to 16 August”

Passage: amendments

One correction, one important addendum: Correction: “From one local fisherman PLYING his trade, “this is my home.” Addendum: Bird Notes: I had mentioned seeing my first Black-footed Albatross on 24 July. During the passage, I saw a few more on the evening watch 30 July AND identified a NEW BIRD, many Leach’s Storm Petrels. Prequel:Continue reading “Passage: amendments”

Sunday 21 July – Monday 29 July

Exhaustion and lateness of the hour motivated me to draw a line at 20 July on my last posting on Sunday, 28 July. Monday we departed Sitka for our first-ever passage. Read on for details about that epic adventure! But first, 21-28 July…: Sunday 21 JulyBlue Mouse Cove to Bartlett Cove: 58-27.5N 135-53.2WHarbor Porpoises circleContinue reading “Sunday 21 July – Monday 29 July”