Our friend Ingrid met us at the boat yesterday at the end of the day, and we all headed over to her part of the city to have dinner at a spot called Marrow. The cocktails and the food were fabulous (dijon beignets with gruyere sauce and crispy prosciutto, squash…
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Yesterday morning our friends Kathy and Pete met us at the boat and we cruised over to the town of Winslow on Bainbridge Island for some breakfast. The day was gray and the water was a bit choppy, but we had a totally fun cruise! We tied up at the…
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One of the things on our "List of Things We Eventually Want For The Boat" was a new anchor. We really wanted a Rocna. I'll spare you all the details, but people LOVE these anchors and swear they work better than any other. We have nothing against the anchor that…
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This morning I got up and walked back to my computer to start work (standing height at the back counter) and as I took at look at the city from the back window I noticed something floating in the water. It was big and my first thought was “whale” (probably…
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I had WAY too many photos of our arrival into downtown. It's just so dang cool when the entire front windows are filled with big buildings…such a different scene than what we've been used to. See, I culled it down to only three photos of our approach. Here's the third…
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Yesterday was our day to move from Elliott Bay Marina over to Bell Harbor Marina. We'd planned to go back over to the boat show and hit three more short seminars, but then this: Get a load of that weather! We decided we'd rather go out cruising around a bit,…
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Tonight, looking back toward downtown from Elliottt Bay Marina (Space Needle on the left): Our first night at the marina (Thursday) we ran into our friend Sam and hung out with him on his Nordic 37 and had some wine/beer, and then he came over for a late dinner…really a…
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This morning was soft and pink and quiet in Blakely Harbor, with a beautiful view of downtown Seattle: We worked there until just after noon and then pulled up anchor and headed up to Winslow (Eagle Harbor, one harbor north of Blakely) for some fish & chips at the Harbor…
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We headed south from Poulsbo this morning down the back side of Bainbridge Island and made a quick stop in Port Orchard. That's us, wayy out there in about the middle of the picture: We walked the main street a bit then stopped in the Port Orchard Public Market, where…
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So, you know how sometimes you go to a new place, and people who have been there before all enthusiastically tell you "OMG you HAVE to go to such-and-such place and get the thingamajigger! It's the best one of those thingamajiggers we've EVER had?" (Come on, we've all done it,…
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