As soon as Di left for Puerto Rico, I started jumping from bar to bar. Not the liquid refreshment establishments of course. The dangerous...

A long journey already done. A lot more to go, but with the great news that my remission is holding, I want to send a huge Thank You to...

You know the old fable: My grand-father made a beautiful axe, which has become a family heirloom transmitted down the generations. My Dad...

Back in Astoria. More importantly my medical check in France was "perfect" according to my Doctor. So I am back as myself, with only...

The Columbia River has long meant "safety" for us. It started back in the summer of 2019 when I was diagnosed with cancer and we rushed...

The weather window I was hoping for started closing, with our estimated arrival now being forecast only hours before a 40 knots gale...

Sequim Bay to Port Angeles was a quick and easy hop. We arrived early enough to check if the public docks downtown had been reinstalled:...

We timed our Deception Pass State Park departure to have almost no current in the pass. We had stayed an extra night at the dock to let...

Coming back from Stuart Island we took delivery of our new to us anchor, a Delta 40Kg sold to us by friends on a Nordhavn 43. While it is...

With ants in our pants to go cruising, now that our AC repairs, other upgrades and maintenance are done, we set off for a local cruise...

It all happened at once. The end of winter works. Spring showing its warmer rays. A look ahead at future cruising. On a bright Monday,...

During my stay in France Di and Princess got snowed in. Anacortes looked like a ski resort, to Princess' great pleasure. Di enjoyed it...

We were sheltering in Prevost Harbor, wind gusts all around us. As I did my last round before going to sleep, snow started falling, and...

Winter caught up with us just a day after we arrived in Anacortes, so I set off to replace our failed furnace fuel pump immediately....

On our way to Anacortes for routine medicals, provisioning and normal maintenance, we had plenty of time left to enjoy the Gulf Islands....

This part of Vancouver Island's East Coast being a little short of good anchorages, we made our way down South via Jelina Island. A small...

We arrived Comox marina after hours and snuck into a space on their guest dock as we'd been told to. We found a real nice and pleasant...

A short hop from Squirrel Cove is Desolation Sound Provincial Marina Park. We had a letter forwarded to Comox marina by our mail handler....

We enjoyed Fiordland so much we decided to head towards Toba Inlet, which on the charts looks like a narrow fjord with tall mountains on...

We struck gold in Campbell River: A very pleasant marina, with shops and marine related business close by. I called a marine repair shop...