Nanaimo To Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast

June 13, 2011

Sunday, June 12th.  With fair skies, light winds, and again a temperature of 57ºF, we pulled in our lines at the Nanaimo Yacht Club, and turned 90º to the north to make our way to Departure Bay to exit Nanaimo. (Click on any image to see an enlarged version.) Our stay in Nanaimo turned out [...]

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Sidney To Nanaimo

June 8, 2011

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 to get us there at our preferred [...]

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Away! Summer 2011 Cruise!

June 5, 2011

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 take more time than planned for.  [...]

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Flying Colours – Almost Ready For 2011 Cruising

May 15, 2011

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 . . . but after all, this is a boat. [...]

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