4788 / August 13, 2023

Dodd Narrows and Nanaimo

Today we travelled from Montague Harbor to Nanaimo via Dodd Narrows. Dodd Narrows was a wild ride, we were a bit impatient and did not want to wait for slack, so we hit it with a 6 knot northbound current. Here is the video of us travelling throught the narrows. The narrows seemed quite easy

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Anchoring / August 11, 2023

Galiano Island – Montague Harbour

Since we crossed the border today the spelling of harbor changed to harbour. Here are our distances so far. 2023-08-09 10.70 Miles 2023-08-10 29.20 Miles And here is the route from Sucia Island to Galiano Island. It took about 3 hours. Crossing the border was easy with our Nexus passes and already being in the

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4788 / January 29, 2023

Video from Last Summer

Since it is winter and we are not on the boat, I have more time to edit videos. Here is a video shot just north of Montague Harbour in BC Canada last summer. I had some fun learning how to fly the drone around a moving object.

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San Juan Islands / August 16, 2022

10 Day Trip Summary

This 10 day trip accounted for our 73rd night on the boat since we purchased it. Day 1 On day 1 we started the trip at Home and travelled to Anacortes. Here is our route for the day at 24.7 miles. Link: Day 1 – Off to Anacortes for the Weekend Day 2 On day

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4788 / August 15, 2022

Day 10 – Home

Today we travelled from Montague Harbor to our homeport at Sandy Point WA. That wraps up a wonderful 10 day trip. I will write a wrap up blog post tomorrow, but for now I am tired. Here is our route today at 40 miles: Our route for the last 10 days as 212 miles: Mileage

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4788 / August 13, 2022

Montague Harbor – Galiano Island

Day 8 of our trip, yesterday we travelled from Silva Bay to Montague Harbor. We plan to stay two nights. Here is the route that we took from Silva Bay to Montague. It took about 2 hours, and the seas were very calm. There was a bit of fog on the Vancouver side to Straights

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4788 / August 11, 2022

Telegraph Harbor – Gulf Island Trip

Below is todays trip as we tracked it in route from Maple Bay to Telegraph Harbor. We started out with a goal of going to Wallace Island Marine Park, however with a little bit of wind and a very crowded harbor we did not want to try anchoring with a stern tie for the first

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4788 / August 9, 2022

Day 2 at Maple Bay

We stayed over for a second day at Maple Bay due to some engine troubles that we encountered yesterday. On the port side engine the Temp gauge was bouncing all around and not giving a reliable temperature. About half of the trip to Maple bay we were running on a single engine because I was

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4788 / August 8, 2022

Maple Bay Marina for 2 nights

We cleared customs quickly today at Bedwell Harbor, then on to Maple Bay Marina. Here are some photos from the marina. This is fun full service marina, with plenty of water, a restaurant, and even a boatyard. To keep cool we rolled out our window insulation. The previous owner had this on board to keep

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