Category: Interesting Other Stuff

Let’s just jump into the deep end! No time to warm up or practice. Let’s get in and go off shore. The boat was put in the water Thursday, Woohoo! Oh, it did not go smoothly, as you would expect by our history. We went into the water at 08:02am, had a leak in the …

The stern tube fabrication was finally completed on Wednesday and it does look lovely! Inside the stern tube goes the cutlass bearing. A tubular piece with rubber bumpers inside that support the shaft to keep it centered. It did not fit. It became a Goldilocks situation! The smaller one was too loose, the next size …

This post will bring everyone up to our current situation and from this point forward we will do our best to keep the blog close to real time. On St Patrick’s Day we got pulled out of the water to have Sacagawea waxed and her bottom done (hee! hee! hee!). Also to have the pulleys …

We survived the winter! Years ago, BC (Before COVID), we had planned a long road trip across the country to see friends and family one last time before selling the car and setting off to other faraway places. We originally thought we would take 4 to 5 months to see the country but, with COVID …

September 2nd. Where did the summer go? It is time to start heading back north. Hopefully the islands will be less crowded now that summer is ending. Also, we have visitors coming in two weeks! We set off from Olympia at 3pm, got into Hope Island at 4:45 and went for a hike. We discovered …