This morning we left Fossil Bay and headed around the corner to Echo Bay for a change of scenery. We grabbed a mooring ball, made brunch, and then inflated our new Sea Eagle kayak for a test paddle. It's fantastic! We paddled 2.5 miles around the bay: I love getting…
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Kevin changed the prop on our dinghy yesterday afternoon (from an 8" pitch to a 7" pitch) and now the boat gets up on plane immediately with two people in it. Before, it would only occasionally get on plane, so we're rockin' now! We took it out for a (fast!)…
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We did a bit of shopping this morning in Anacortes (Safeway, hardware store, West Marine, the usual) and then headed out toward…somewhere. This is Cone Island, just east of Cypress Island: We decided to head for Sucia Island, because (1) it's pretty, (2) it's got great hiking, and (3) if…
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Behold, the new faucet: It's an American Standard Fairbury in shiny chrome. It's got a pull out sprayer with spray, stream, and pause, and a single lever on/off, and it's not too big for our fairly small sink. The faucet that came on the boat (below) was a fixed faucet with…
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We love our Nordic Tug. And we love boating way more than we thought we would. Since the end of September 2014 when we bought Airship, we’ve spent 118 nights onboard, traveled almost 1800 nautical miles, and run almost 300 engine hours, and we’re about to roughly double that with…
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Yesterday morning we left Port Townsend on the early side (before 9am) and headed north to take advantage of the perfect weather and great conditions for crossing the Strait of Juan de Fuca. And by perfect weather and great conditions, I mean this: So, yesterday crossing the strait we saw…
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This post will be all about whales. I'll do another post where I tell you all the other cool things about our cruise from Port Townsend north to Stuart Island, but not in this post. This post is the post with all the whale photos. Yesterday in the middle of…
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We arrived in Port Townsend yesterday afternoon and headed for what's becoming our usual slip at the Point Hudson Marina, then met up with several friends who were camping here for the weekend: Dave and Ann Zimmerman of Advodna (and their two daughters, Wynne-3, and Mae-9 months), and Kathy Harderson,…
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That little purple bit is the area we've explored so far by boat: Olympia, Seattle, Hood Canal, Puget Sound, San Juan Islands, and some bits of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia. Over 1500 nautical miles total have been spent cruising the Pacific Northwest waters. That huge orange area is…
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New addition to Airship's crab cooking capabilities (to go with our new large stock pot): The PowerStove. The PowerStove folds up pretty small and has a nice sturdy bag to hold everything (and it all fits inside the large stock pot): The PowerStove comes highly recommended by other boaters…
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