After a full week of hazardous air quality, I was finally able to open up the windows again last Saturday. The middle of September was probably the most wretched experience

Hey, I know some of you just recently came over to the new site. Thank you all for your support and patience! Sending positive thoughts your way during these challenging

Hello, everyone! It's been a weird month. Yesterday, the wind picked up slightly and we watched boats drag by on either side of us. Zack was able to climb onto

It all began as we were trying to pick a movie to watch on Netflix. It was a bit after nine in the evening, and we'd been anchored in Roche

I've been a bit quiet. I wrote the paragraph below about a week ago but couldn't find the motivation to finish the entry then: > I've decided it's newsletter time, so

Early in the afternoon, I looked up and saw the barometer had dropped significantly after several days of high pressure. The sky slowly became grayer, more crowded with heavy clouds.

What's new and exciting aboard Blackthorn? Thankfully, not too much. We just returned to anchor from a resupply trip in Bellingham. We spent four straight weeks out on the hook, though we did change location a few times according to the weather and sneak in a bit of sailing.

Poulsbo is a self-proclaimed Little Norway tucked away in Liberty Bay, northwest of Seattle. We’ve visited Poulsbo annually since we began our boating adventure, but this was our first

Blackthorn’s now back in the water, anchored in Eagle Harbor just across the sound from Seattle. I’ll be writing about our experiences living at anchor soon, but I

So, it’s been quite a while since we hauled. We thought a month would be excessive. There was no way we could possibly need that long out of the