I was tired of having that canister of bear spray at the top of the blog, so here's a pretty picture of water instead: This is from late December, after Christmas, when we were cruising the back side of San Juan Island with our friends Jake and Patti, looking for…
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This was the view from our top deck in Echo Bay at Sucia Island last night as the sun set: And this was our little beggar buddy who hung out by the boat for a while. We didn't give him anything, but I think they must get conditioned that the…
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After our kayak excursion around Echo Bay, we took the dinghy in to shore to get a hike in. (That closest white dot there in the bay is us.) We've done this hike before, and written about it and posted tons of photos before, so I only took a few,…
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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 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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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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I've been wanting a butter bell for the boat, and found this cool one made by Red Wing Stoneware in Minnesota: Red Wing Stoneware Co. butter bell ($35) from Duluth Pack. Butter goes in the part on the right, water goes in the part on the left, and when put together the water…
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We were all set to go back to Portland yesterday (Saturday), but during dinner out with our friend Steve on Friday night in Anacortes, he convinced us to stay another night and join him and Sam out at Orcas on Saturday. We caved. We left Anacortes around 11:30am yesterday and…
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I forgot to post these photos the other day of our return trip from the Gulf Islands to Anacortes. It was a beautiful, smooth cruise the whole way. More eagles: More seals and sea lions: We arrived at our slip, called Customs, and the whole clearing process was pretty easy…
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This place! I love seeing the telltale gold light from the porthole in the stateroom. It's my sign to get up and grab my camera. Sunrise at Cabbage and Tumbo was as good if not better than sunset last night. The other direction: Kevin went to retrieve the crab trap…
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