Vancouver Trip
So, tomorrow I leave to sail to Vancouver This is the basic route It may be possible to do in one day but as this is the first time I’ve done this route (well, without a licensed captain on… Continue reading
Sailing
I got a spinnaker!
Hooray! I picked it up and a spinnaker pole from the marine exchange store, together they were under 600 bucks which is pretty amazing. Getting the pole (which is almost 16 feet long) back home in my tiny toyota… Continue reading
First multi-day trip
So last weekend I went on my first multi-day trip! And didn’t die! All photos are from my mobile phone because I forgot to charge my fancy camera’s battery before we left. Oops. We took this route There was… Continue reading
Planning for my first international trip
‘International Trip’. It sounds so grand doesn’t it?! As it turns out, it’s just a short jaunt across the Haro Straight to the San Juan islands I plan to head tomorrow to Orcas Island to pal around with my friend… Continue reading
Adding RADAR MARPA and learning to tie stuff down
Last Saturday will go down in history. Children will cheer, church bells will ring, and it will forever be known as The Day I Finished The Mast Wiring. I had finished almost everything a month or so ago, but to… Continue reading
Weekend wrapup
First, I managed to get the chartplotter -> laptop working. What had happened is that my NSS came with a piece of paper saying that the wiring in the manual was wrong and to use the one on the paper.… Continue reading
First time anchoring out
So, I finally did it. 16 months after getting the boat, I finally managed to anchor out somewhere overnight, and I didn’t even die! Surprising since the place we went to was literally called ‘Murder Bay’, off wolf island. MURDER… Continue reading
Weekend sailing
So at some point sailing I’m sure will become so ho-hum that I won’t excitedly blog about it, but today is not that day. The weather was GORGEOUS, and I had a friend from Vancouver staying with me for the… Continue reading