Trip to Orcas
So after all my hubris in my last post, I did not actually sail over. My ankle is still pretty bad, and for a solo trip it just seemed like a big ol’ bad idea. And I’ve had a few… Continue reading
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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
I’m not dead
I haven’t posted anything for a while, because I’ve been mostly in pain for the last two weeks so it would just be endless whining about my foot and NO-ONE wants to read that. Oh for the record, my foot… Continue reading
Race to Alaska part II + ankle update
The race is now on, and you can follow it on http://tracker.r2ak.com/ Phil and Team Mau got through Seymour Narrows, but apparently the wind is gusting up to 40 knots, which on a beach cat…. yikes. Here are some photos I… Continue reading
I bust my foot
No not fighting a kraken or surviving a knockdown in a gale, instead I was playing soccer and got in a bad tackle and ripped all the ligaments. Sigh. Aside from having a comically swollen foot, it also means that… Continue reading
Securing the fridge
So after that rather rough sail where the fridge/freezer decided to launch itself onto the floor and put a rather large dent in it (the floor, not the fridge), I decided that ‘balancing it on the side’ wasn’t the best… Continue reading
One year living on a boat
First up, this is an extremely long and rambling post, with far more than it’s fair share of navel-gazing. You’ve been warned. I’d missed talking about the one year anniversary of owning the boat back in December, due to being… Continue reading
More running rigging work
After yesterdays escapade, where I got to see what it would look like if the inside of my cabin went through a tumble drier, today I decided to try to hook up some kind of reefing system. I ended up… Continue reading