Archive for 'Fun'
What’s your coverage?
There are certainly ranges of coverage available in marine insurance today and I am frequently surprised at what clauses are available and at what cost. Family medical, hurricane haul-out coverage, fuel-spill liability, dock contracts, fishing equipment coverage… you name it, there seems to be a clause covering just about every eventuality, no matter how [...]
Full StoryDecadent Living
My timing of the tides and currents through the San Juans en route to Seattle proved to be masterful and heroic in scale… yet deficient in one particular: Spieden Channel.
I’d worked out our trip from Sidney to Seattle precisely accounting for the tides and currents at Sidney, through Haro Straight, down San Juan Channel, and [...]
Heading home too soon
Too soon, and too fast! Our sailing for the past two days has been fantastic, and we’ve been rocketing along at hull speed under clear blue skies, feted by porpoises, unimpeded by Customs. It’s all come too soon and gone too quickly.
Our last couple of days in Vancouver were just spent wandering, taking [...]
Having it both ways
I don’t want to say that I am feeling cozy, particularly, because that’s really more a word that my wife would use and she would mean something completely different than I might mean by it, so it’s probably best to avoid it entirely. Especially because right now men’s figure-skating happens to be playing on the [...]
Full StoryThe Olympics, from the water
One of the primary benefits of cruising is going interesting places and doing fun things there, and there may be no place that is at once as interesting and fun as a hosting city during the Olympic games.
Vancouver is alive with the buzz of fans and athletes, a special place at a special moment in [...]
The Great Seattle Boat Show
So if you live anywhere in the Puget Sound area media market my post title has just set off that cursed jingle from the commercials in your head where you won’t be able to shake it off until sometime in March. You’re welcome!
It’s that time of year again, though, and everyone is getting excited about [...]
The kindness of Canadians
I’m not saying Americans aren’t kind, particularly here in the Pacific Northwest (where we have something of a reputation for altruism, at least, if not strictly kindness), and certainly not among or around boaters and marina workers we have encountered, who are with very few exceptions complete gems and entertaining to be around in the [...]
Full StoryChristmas travel as sailing analog
So I’ve been missing sailing in between being busy and not having the weather for it, and with Christmas now intruding on our time (yes, yes, I’m a veritable Scrooge, I know) I didn’t figure we’d be getting in any sea time for a couple of months. But it turns out that the Christmas travel [...]
Full StoryNo Room at the Inn
I think I might have mentioned here before that Mandy and I have, through what luck I do not know, tickets to the Vancouver Winter Olympics coming up here in only a couple of months. Specifically, we’re going to the luge, an event to which neither of us have any particular connection, and which doesn’t [...]
Full StoryFor your entertainment: SailO
Peter Roach takes the “VHF as a form of entertainment” paradigm to the next level with his game of SailO.
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