Free Post Suddenly Sailing: When the Smoke Came 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
Free Post FLC Newsletter #24 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
Free Post FLC Newsletter #23 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
Free Post Suddenly Sailing: Dude, Where's my Anchor? 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
Free Post FLC Newsletter #22 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
Free Post Suddenly Sprouting Boat life does strange things to you. Like prompting you to write about sprouting seeds.
Free Post FLC Newsletter #21 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.
Free Post FLC Newsletter #20 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.
Free Post FLC Newsletter #19 Hello everyone. As always, I hope this finds you well. Thanks to a break in the weather, it looks like we'll have ample power this week, which means I can do fun stuff like sit on my laptop and write updates! Zack's contract has
Free Post FLC Newsletter #18 - Lattes for everybody! So, there's a lot going on in the world right now. First off, I hope this newsletter finds you and your loved ones well. Aboard Blackthorn, we're preparing to leave the dock soon because we have to be out at the end of the
Free Post Suddenly Sailing: Anchoring in Liberty Bay 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
Free Post Suddenly Sailing: Living at Anchor On November 29th at around 10 AM, we were scheduled for launch into the Duwamish River. The tide was high enough that the little walkway running alongside the boat ramp
Free Post Suddenly Sailing: The Great Haulout of 2018 - Part 3 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
Free Post Suddenly Sailing: The Great Haulout of 2018 - Part 2 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
Free Post PAX 2018 Spotlight: Praey for the Gods The last few months have been remarkably busy on Blackthorn. We’ve been out of the water since July 11th, but should be back in the water soon. I was
