Editor’s note: Check out all of “The Captain and Admiral’s” adventures in Desolation Sound at their Three Sheets Northwest blog. One of our favorite spots in Desolation Sound was Roscoe Bay, in part because it has the easily accessible warm swimming/bathing lake.  The Captain and Admiral decided they needed a good soak to get the [...]

Summer cruising is coming up later in August….but I’m always in a hurry to get going…even when I know I can’t go quite yet. I do have to work. Sure, working at The Center for Wooden Boats hardly qualifies since it’s so darn fun. But we have Festival to do, then Karin has business trips. [...]

As the sound of the anchor splashing in the water and the rattle of chain died away, we were surrounded by silence. No people. No other boats, except our cruising companions aboard their boat, Bella Star. Just a breeze from the Pacific Ocean rustling through the twisted trees of Clarke Island. We were in the outer [...]

Vancouver is a wonderful and cosmopolitan city, and False Creek, the reformed industrial waterway bordering the south edge of the downtown core, is an interesting anchorage right at its heart. Prominent location of both Expo ’86 and important parts of the more recent 2010 Olympics, False Creek has a checkered history that is slowly being [...]