I needed to pick up some stuff from Orcas island, namely Drag link for autopilot (last piece I need!) Curtain stuff to finish all 9 remaining curtains a safety cuff thing to put on prop shaft in case of gearbox… Continue reading
I went to Orcas this weekend to pick up my drive unit for my autopilot, and it was a bit of a comedy of errors. The first thing that happened was I cycled my bilge pump and got my feet… Continue reading
And what a marvelous sail it was! I had plans to go out with Emma on the Sunday, but she called mid-sat and said she got sent home from work early, and would it be possible to go today? Sure… Continue reading
*Ok, week before thanksgiving. American thanksgiving that is, as the Canadian one already happened 6 weeks ago. Whatever. So my friend Elyess was hosting a thanksgiving dinner (see above) at her house on Orcas Island and that sounded like a… Continue reading
So went for a quick spin with my friends Billy, Emma and David. Wind was 15 knots, gusting to 25, so we sailed around for a couple of hours with a reefed main and foresail. David had never been sailing… Continue reading
Come Sunday I was pretty exhausted. Not from the two parties I went to on the weekend (they didn’t help) but also the fact that the boast was tied up to a daydock that could be described as ‘decrepit’, if… Continue reading
This weekend was Halloween, and my friend Elyess had invited me over to Orcas to a couple of parties, and in addition, I had shipped a bunch of stuff from Amazon to her so I went to pick it up… Continue reading
Well, its definitely Autumn. The nights are noticeably cooler, it rained a bunch, and there seems to be a billion mosquitoes. I straight up kill 3 or 4 a night, leaving their mushed corpses as a warning to the others, but… Continue reading