Tuesday, June 7th.  Under gray skies and a cool-ish temperature of 57ºF, we departed Port Sidney Marina at 9:22AM bound for Nanaimo.  Kap figured the tides and current to get us through Dodd Narrows at 2:28PM for slack water, so we needed to depart no later than 9:40...

Friday, June 3 – Departure day.  No glitches this time, no broken bones, no unexpected delays. We had hoped to be away in the early morning, as the outgoing tide would be with us, but the inevitable extra things to do in loading an entire summer’s glimp aboard always...

Sunday, May 8 - the first step for this summer's cruise - we repositioned Flying Colours from Seattle's Shilshole Marina to our slip at Anacortes Marina. Winter work on Flying Colours was more extensive than we expected, taking longer and costing more than we budgeted...

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