July PNW Cruise Day 23 Anacortes to West Sound, Orcas Island. With our weekend guest aboard, Scott Lindberg, we sailed, motored, then sailed across Rosario straits, through Obstruction pass, across the mouth of East Sound, into Harney Channel and finally up into West Sound and into Massacre bay and Skull Island. Along the way, with Mt. Baker always in the background, we came across ...
Updated 12-23-2011 at 08:36 AM by Ballard Sailor
Originally Posted by Photoboy Maybe.....
. Adventure. The sailor racing their boat around the world, the mountain climber challenging the worlds tallest peaks - that, we all can agree is adventure! But lets face it, for the other 99% of us that kind of adventure is simply not in our personality. For the majority, adventure involves being a weekend warrior. Work, work, work all week to spend two days out sailing, hiking, biking or whatever then back to work and do it over again until that one time a year that you get to have ...
Here are some boat options that look good to me - there are a ton of boats for sale in our price range (under 10 grand) - these are the ones I have on the short list from afar. The constant debate is sailing ability vs. interior space. I usually lean towards sailing ability - especially since this is for a summer coastal cruise and not for wintering in a marina, offshore passage making and such. But it is hard to pass up interior creature comforts! Ordered by price, here are some ...
The Road Trip’s started and things couldn’t be going better! Saturday morning March 3rd we met up with friends at the Smoke Shop in Ballard for a good greasy spoon breakfast of Chicken Fried Steak and eggs. By 8am we had hit the road, goodbye Ballard - we’ll miss you! Off to St. Maries, Idaho to visit Jennifer’s friend Lisa Spinelli and her husband Mike and daughter Macy. The roads where clear and dry with the only problem being the “Service Engine Soon” light coming on just after we got gas ...