From the Broughton’s to SE Alaska, this month is known as Fogust (as in "fawg-ust").   This morning certainly lived up to it. We departed Port McNeill just before noon.  After last night’s display of lenticular clouds to the west that usually portend high winds, it...

It’s three months later than planned, but it’s nice to finally have some water under our bums.  It’s even nicer to be anchored in a quiet lagoon as I write this, without another boat in sight except our good friends Steve and Shirley on Couverden. We’re out of cell...

This feels sort of weird - it's 7:20AM as I'm writing this (actually on July 24th), and I'm tracking Flying Colours with my SPOT messaging device as she glides past the east side of Guemes Island . . .  while sitting at home staring at my PC screen.  How can this be?...

Hello all, This last blog post for 2011 is going to be a wrap-up one, covering a wide range of topics that just don't seem to fit anywhere else, plus an exciting little anecdote from our recent cruise in Flying Colours from Lake Union in Seattle to her home berth at...