One of the most exciting decisions you can make on a boat is where to go:  The countless possibilities.  The discovery of the unknown.  The world, or at least a small portion of it, at your stern.  Once the decision is made, the excitement continues as you pull out the cruising guides to start researching the possibilities.  It’s at this stage that the trip starts to take shape...

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The low approaching the Seattle area with the high sitting below. Weather Bomb noun: a type of extratropical cyclone characterized by a low pressure system in which the central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, which can produce hurricane-force winds with very heavy rainfall or snow. Spring has started off with a BANG . . . or, rather, a bomb.  Yesterday morning at seven...

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Removing old varnish with the heat gun. At the end of last season, David put together a lengthy to-do list for the boat.  Some of the jobs, like replacing the windlass which died last season, are important.  Others, like re-gluing the trash cabinet in the galley, not so much.  But we’d like to complete them all . . . eventually.  Since returning to Poulsbo last month, we’ve been...

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