It seems like we’ve had nothing but problems with our windlass over the past three years.  But finally, it looks like our troubles are over.  Back in September of 2011, we were anchored at a small marine park just south of Desolation Sound in British Columbia.  The bottom there is rocky; so the next morning when we brought our anchor up and the windlass kept stalling out, we...

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I love college basketball.  Not in an all-encompassing way.  Just the Wichita State University men’s team.  But this blog isn’t about them.  Or the fact that they’ll be playing in the NCAA tournament.  It’s about Cambria.  And the crazy madness of getting her ready for an early April departure.  For the last few weeks, we’ve had some incredible weather here in the Pacific Northwest and we’ve been taking...

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When we first arrived in the Pacific Northwest in October of 2008, we were overwhelmed by our cruising options and had no idea where to go or what to do.  In the end, we decided to take the “eating an elephant” approach to our new cruising grounds and bite off a small section at a time, building our way up to what we believed would be the icing...

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Last week we finally made good on our promise to do some winter cruising.  We’ve been threatening to do it for years now.  But for one reason or another, it never happened until last Sunday.  Usually that reason is we ‘explode’ during the winter months – everything and anything we own seems to find its way into the cockpit where it sits and taunts us until we finally...

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