Preperations Contine

 

 

I sealed and painted the cockpit and swim deck with some non-skid paint. Our dingy actually folds in half and has it own bag.  It can get a little rough when we travel the 190 miles of open ocean.  You don't want to have your dink and motor hanging off the back in a davit.  So I installed flush tie downs to strap everything down until we get to the San Juan Islands.  With this done, it is time to start packing the engine room with spare parts.  We have the Crab and Wine Fest coming up the 3rd week in April.  After this, we pack the rest of the boat and the first weather window we have, we go.

I will provide a link to our SPOT so you can follow our voyage later.

 

 

 

Sealing the swim deck

Grey paint completed

St. Patty's Weekend and Trip Prep.

Hey everyone. We have decided to use this blog to document our travels to B.C. Canada, Alaska and the inside passage.  We have a few months of preparation before we go.  We anticipate our departure from the Columbia River somewhere around May 13th.  The tides will be favorable for the 190 mile open ocean trip from our dock to Neah Bay WA. IF the weather is good we will leave Astoria very early in the morning and with a chevron run (lots of fuel) we should be in Neah Bay 13-14 hours later.

So far our itinerary is in jello, meaning we will not really have a schedule.  We do plan to spend a week in the San Juan Islands, then off to Sidney BC.  From there we go north. Not sure how far we will make it this summer.  May or may not make it Skagway AK.

Today we are at MCYC for the annual St. Patty's day party for the weekend.  More importantly we got and passed our USCG safety inspection, so now I have added a new sticker to the side window with all the other required stickers, like the Washington State Marine Park and U.S. Customs.

In future postings we will try to keep the pictures to 10 or less.-ASD