Month: August 2020

Today we raise all of our sails! Wooohoooo! Going sailing! The riggers, Dylan and Quinn, will show us how to use all of our new lines, pole, sails, and furlers. My label maker is at the ready! We had a new main sail made. It rolls up inside the boom and the operation of raising …

Finally we are floating! Yay! We had a slip reserved at Cap Sante Marina, Anacortes for the next 6 nights. It was only about a mile to the marina but it was nerve wracking. We had only water for coolant because we had had a coolant leak while parked on the gravel and the coolant …

Put In Day!!!!! I think it should be capitalized like a national holiday. Morning came fast and cold and wet. Granola bars and coffee, let’s go! Bill and I had discussed the roles we would each play and the plan. Oh boy, a plan…..always good to start with but be ready to change it. PLAN: …

June 27 to July 9 we stayed in the gravel lot for almost 2 weeks. It was rainy and cold 55 to 60 degrees 90% of the time. The guys in the yard got used to seeing me trudging to the porta potty in the morning. The mornings started with smiles and waves every day …

Hello everyone! Yes, we did make it to the boat (June 26)!!! PLAN: Wake up early, work like crazy to clean the apartment for the next tenants, pack the final bag, hit the road around 10am arrive to the boat in Anacortes at 5pm, unpack essentials, relax with a sundowner cocktail on our new home. …