The Pacific Northwest has a strong sailing culture and nowhere is that more apparent than in Puget Sound where boats fill the waterway on fine days, flying colourful spinnakers or leisurely tacking across the Sound.  And yet, if you follow our blog (or any other sailboat cruising the Inside Passage), you’ll soon learn that we hardly ever sail. What’s the difference between us and them? That’s easy: We’re...

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Getting a boat ready for the cruising season can be an expensive proposition and, if you’re like us, saving dollars wherever you can has become an important part of the process.  One of the many ways we help cut our costs is by downloading free PDF versions of books.  Not only does it save us a little cash, it has the added benefit of saving space on our...

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For us, cruising in the Pacific Northwest evokes feelings of exploration and adventure.  Wherever you go, you’re surrounded by the names of intrepid sailors who visited this coast hundreds of years ago:  Vancouver Island, Resolution Bay, Bligh Cove and Discovery Passage to name a few. It’s all rather romantic. But I’m getting a little ahead of myself.  The story I want to tell actually begins in 2007 when...

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I didn’t advertise the fact.  It would have like hanging a sign in Cambria’s window that read, “Come on aboard.  There’s nobody here to stop you.”  But on a cold winter’s morning back in December, we packed up our truck and boarded a ferry that took us across Puget Sound and on a 1900-mile road journey to Kansas where we spent the holidays with our family, stretching our...

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