2 nights at Sucia Island, and 1 night at Stuart island makes 29 nights that we have stayed on the boat so far. We started out Thursday evening heading to Sucia Island with calm weather, then Friday the storm picked up with 30 mph winds, and then calm again on Saturday with sunshine, then Sunday
This weekend we had our first outing of the year on the boat, 2 nights at Echo Bay at Sucia Island. Not counting the test drives with the mechanic, this is trip #13, also known as Season 2, Episode 1. This was the 25th and 26th nights that we have stayed on the boat. Being
Many aspects of 2020 were very unprecedented, and there were some big challenges for the world, and for us personally as well, but overall it was a pretty good year for boating. Here is how the year shaped up for us. January 2020 In January we were full on busy shopping for our yacht. We
Trip #12 marks the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th nights on the 4788 since purchasing it earlier this year. We left after work Thursday evening into a fog bank. As we left the Sandy Point harbor entrance, we could see how serious the fog was as shown below with the Red / Green channel markers
Our 11th trip of the season this year was to Roche Harbor for Labor Day weekend, three nights on the boat, which makes a total of 20 nights on board so far since we purchased the boat in March. Each time it gets a bit more comfortable. Alex and I failed at salmon fishing just
Friday night we stayed at Deer Harbor on Orcas Island, this was our first time to stay overnight at Deer Harbor. The staff were friendly and we had a nice stay, with an early morning departure. The nice thing about Deer Harbor is that they accept reservations, where some other places like Roche Harbor are
Since we left the crab traps out yesterday we needed to come out to pick them up. Due to the tides and the marina entrance issues at Sandy Point we left at the 9:30am high tide with plans to make a day of it and to return around 7:30pm. This was also the first trip
Trip 7 to Roche Harbor marks the 13th and 14th nights that we have slept on the boat. The route there was a bit different from usual. We had some time before our noon check-in at Roche so we took the relaxing light house tour, visiting the Patos Island Lighthouse and the Stuart Island Light
Our fourth trip on the 4788 was to Roche Harbor on San Juan Island. Roche is one of my favorite destinations in The San Juan Islands. What I like about Roche is that the staff treats you like royalty. Even if you didn’t arrive on that 10 million dollar 115ft yacht, they treat you like
On our third weekend trip since the purchase of the Bayliner 4788 we left on a Friday evening and arrived at Prevost Harbor around 8:30pm. After years of boating in the San Juan Islands, this was our first time visiting Stuart Island. We tied to the linear moorage which was a bit of a challenge
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