Free Post Boat Stories 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 Anchor Drop Anchor Drop: Westcott Bay After some excitement that I'll be writing about in a separate post, we've relocated to the lovely–and much less crowded–Westcott Bay, just around the bend from Roche Harbor.
Free Post Anchor Drop Anchor Drop: Roche Harbor We were planning to go to Jones Island and Friday Harbor, but a combination of Jones Island's north bay being completely packed and wind and water conditions resulted in us popping over to Roche, at least for the time being.
Free Post Anchor Drop Anchor Drop: Clark Island We scooted over to a mooring ball on the east side of Clark Island two days ago. It was a boring trip over with no wind and currents that couldn't be avoided.
Free Post Anchor Drop Anchor Drop: Inati Bay Yesterday, we sailed out of Bellingham and over to Inati Bay for the first time. It's a very quiet and peaceful little place. I'm taking the opportunity to catch up
Free Post Boat Stories 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 Boat Stories 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 Boat Stories Suddenly Sailing: Twenty Days on the Water A Side NoteThis March, The Sir and I got married. For readability, I’ll be referring to The Sir’s aunt and uncle as though they were my own. Getting
Free Post Boat Stories Suddenly Sailing - What could possibly go wrong? Out into the SoundWe’d gotten our engine up and running and practiced a bit of maneuvering. Now, it was time to set sail. And about time, too, given that we’d last taken Blackthorn out with Robin and Jackie near the end of
Free Post Boat Stories Suddenly Sailing - Suddenly Docking The Wonder of DeadlinesOnce we had the boat fully reassembled, we did a lot of dawdling. There were some minor engine issues, and the wind instrument needed replacing. We waited for parts and put off getting the wind instrument up, worried about sending The
Free Post boats Suddenly Sailing - ASA 103 I’m going to stop numbering these entries, since it hardly seems necessary. Last Saturday, we hopped out of bed before the sun came up, showered, and headed north for
Free Post Boat Stories Suddenly Sailing - Part 3 - Lessons, Continued Lessons, ContinuedAfter reaching our mooring for the evening, we headed back out to get in a bit more practice. The wind had picked up nicely and carried us out to the surrounding waters. We went through some more tacks, and then began on jibes.
Free Post Boat Stories Suddenly Sailing - Part 2 - First Sail and Lessons Last I wrote, we had just plunged headfirst into learning about sailing. Thursday of last week, I stepped onto a sailboat for the first time in my life. A coworker was kind enough to let us pick his brain over coffee the week before,
Free Post boats Suddenly Sailing - Part 1 Just over two weeks ago, for reasons that are quite complicated – which I’ll elaborate on in future posts, my fiancé and I have decided to become liveaboards. Which would be well and fine if we had been brought up sailors or sailed as
