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Gwaii Haanas: Hlk’yah G̱awG̱a & G̱andll K’in Gwaay.yaay (2023 July)
Sticking to my journal as a guide, we continue south to other parts of Gwaii Haanas Park including the rest of the Watchman sites. The first would be Hlk’yah G̱awG̱a (Windy Bay) where a recently raised legacy pole stands. The island, Tllga Kun Gwaayaay (Lyell Island) also houses the site of a very important protest…
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Topside Touchup
Classic S/V Karma, we end up starting on a project that we sort of originally put on the back-burner. I was wandering around in Friday Harbor one day while Heather was over at Shaw doin’ her day job when I came across non $200 topside paint available in store! Karma has had a pretty shabby
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Dinkin’ around
It can haul your headsail. It can haul your beer. It can commute you to your ferry in the wee hours of the morn. It can get you through big wind and small but mighty waves. It can haul up to two of your most acquainted acquaintances. It can also haul $ss behind a 5
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The Manual Windlass
Using one’s own ground tackle for extended periods of times is sort of what separates the weekend warrior boats from the cruising boats. If you’re only out for a bit every once in a while the mooring buoy makes a whole lot of sense. No depths to worry about, definitely isn’t going to drag around
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BC’s Answer to the SJs
The Gulf Islands are sort of like the Canadian version of the San Juans, or so we are lead to believe. And to an extent, that is true. Close in proximity means they’re close in a lot of ways: flora, fauna, climate, and so on. Now that we are here, though, they do have more
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19:01 Sunset Time
The summer is slowly but not so surely coming to a close in the PNW and the earlier sunset times are the first indication of this. The days are warm still, clear with but a few scattering of clouds. The winds are still the PNW notorious light variety though there are occasional days of strong
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Gulf Islands Flotilla
11 boats, 5 with all women crews, and one happening to have my aunt on board. During mid to late August we were literally bobbing about wondering when we were going to be able to get our mast back. It was already 2 or so weeks past the time we originally expected when we had
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“The right size for a yacht is large enough to have 6 onboard for cocktails, 4 onboard for dinner, and 2 onboard to sleep” – William Stuart Herreshoff
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