Tag: navigation

August 5, 2023

Log: Go simple, go (sorta) small, but go now!

Prelude Jack said we just needed to set a date. So he did. May 15th. If you don’t, you risk never casting off those lines.…
July 18, 2022

Summer 2022 Cruise Photos

Silent for three years, Baggywrinkles’ Blog is being teased back to life. The new WordPress editing system scared me off and with the endless appearance…
July 18, 2022

Log: To the Broughtons – 2022

Our summer cruise took us first into South Sound, then back to Port Townsend to welcome the Seventy48 human-powered teams from Tacoma and to see…
July 20, 2019

Log: Southern BC – familiar and challenging

I post this with new appreciation of our most southern and homebound passage. Most times – many more times than our six passages all the…
July 12, 2019

Log: Super, Natural British Columbia

That tag line from hellobc.com fits the middle passage of our cruise. After entering Canada at Prince Rupert, we found ourselves along in a string of…
June 18, 2019

Log: 2019 #DreamPOWABC

#DreamPOWABC A white sheet of paper with that written with a black sharpie has been taped to the inside of the door on the…
July 28, 2018

Tracy Arm!

Well, we finally did it. On the Fourth of July we were ambling back south but just not ready for it. Comparing destinations with fellow…
July 16, 2018

Our Southeast Cities

Our Southeast Cities Sitka and Petersburg. A week in each has reacquainted us with these two gems in Southeast, as Alaskans call their panhandle. Both enjoy…
July 4, 2017

Musings about Tides and Currents

The puzzling movement of large logs on a king tide. We turn off Sutil Channel into Quadra Island’s Drew Harbour. The place is empty so…
August 13, 2016

Log: Southbound home

Boat Repairs in Exotic Places Okay so there’s a gap in our itinerary for what cruising sailors refer to as “boat repairs in exotic places.”…