The weather's been incredible over the past few weeks with no end in sight (or at least in the five-day forecast). It's a big change from last year which, by all accounts, was very wet. Dry weather means a lack of water up in the islands where they use catchments, so David's been working on commissioning the watermaker -- a much more complicated and frustrating process than the preceding...
We took Cambria out yesterday for our first test-run. Trying to coordinate currents, tides and destination was more of a challenge than I expected, so I opted for the easy solution which was leaving with the tide and travelling north to Admiralty Inlet rather than the southern portion of Puget Sound. On paper, it made perfect sense: we already had the route charted; Port Ludlow is a well-protected...
The fishing boats are beginning to leave for the season, so the marina was able to offer us a berth in their permanent moorage for an extra month and we jumped at the chance. We lost our beautiful view, but the move gives us the opportunity to “ease” back into cruising rather than jump straight in. We’ll use Poulsbo as our home base over the next few weeks...
