Archive for August, 2010
Boats, Trains, and Automobiles
Something that goes hand-in-hand with cruising is traveling to get back from where you are cruising at. Whether it’s half-way around the world or just a few hundred miles up the coast, if you have a slow boat and commitments back home, you’re going to be taking some third-party transportation at some point. Depending on [...]
Full StoryHeading South
We got up early to ride south on the ebb from Desolation Sound, ahead of a weakening frontal system moving down from the north. Clouds and rain have been something of a novelty this season and so the sky seems ominous as dawn comes with a flat gray light in stark contrast to the usual [...]
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We’ve been noticing an odd thing these past few years as we have been out sailing: the actual sailing part is the easiest thing. What is hard is stopping in a port for any length of time. There are usually different reasons for our difficulties in any particular port of call, and we have come [...]
Full StoryAt anchor
As much fun as sailing can be, it’s also pretty nice to take a few days off and just sit someplace, anchored out and watching the world go by. It’s necessary, of course, to pick some place where the world actually goes by; sheltered anchorages with a small opening out into a well-trafficked channel are [...]
Full StorySolitude is where you find it
We left Blind Channel to bash through the ceaseless northwest winds and swells that have been rolling implacably down Johnstone Strait every day for a month under clear blue skies. Word on the docks was that today was the day for those heading further north; max winds of 25 knots rather than 35 made for [...]
Full StoryFitness and the Cruiser
If you are hoping that this is a how-to article on the topic, stop reading now; I plan first to lament my own deplorable state of flabbiness and then speculate idly and without authority on the road that has lead me here, the eminent obstacles denying other avenues, and approaches a more disciplined man might [...]
Full StoryBlind Channel
There’s not a lot to recommend Blind Channel Resort if you are assessing it using the conventional cruiser’s nine-line report. It’s expensive, awkwardly located in the middle of a set of tidal rapids, very rolly, docks swept by current, deucedly shallow along the inboard rails, and they pack you in like sardines. The fresh baked [...]
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Marty McOmber
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