The Straight of Juan de Fuca

Also known as the straight of wanna puka. Here's Hello World after hitting our first waves just off the Pacific. Fortunately you'll find no puke in the picture... :)

port townsend

We are currently lying in Boat Haven Marina in Port Townsend. Given our plans with Hello World, we decided a rigging survey would be prudent. We received quite a few recommendations and they all overwhelmingly pointed to Port Townsend Rigging. Dan from PT Rigging did a very thorough review of our rig and gave it a thumbs up. He found a few things we should fix and a few pieces we should upgrade. However, nothing he found screamed REPLACE ME.

If you're looking for help with rigging, including a survey, we highly recommend Dan and Lisa at PT Rigging. They are very focused on value for your money. Dan will work with you to do what you need to do at a reasonable cost.

Tomorrow morning (early tomorrow morning), we're going to ride the ebb tide north across the Strait of Juan de Fuca and into the San Juan Islands. We have a couple anchorages in mind somewhere in the neighborhood of Lopez Island. We have a date on Monday with our sailmaker in Sidney, BC so we have the rest of the week and weekend to kill time in the San Juans.

Bummer, huh?

48°06'23.21"N 122°46'37.57"W

north

We've driven out of the Shilshole Marina breakwater many times. This time is different. We don't have any plans to return.

Hello World is northbound.

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raise your hand

... if you thought we'd actually leave on time.

We hooked up our SSB radio today and got a helpful "UNLOCK" message.
Push some buttons, twist some knobs, no joy. After talking with the
folks at SEA, the manufacturer, apparently the radio has to be sent in
for service. Since they are just north of Seattle, we brought it up
there today. They'll know more on Monday or Tuesday.

We may also leave and just have them ship it to us. Time's a wasting
and we ain't getting younger.

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radio silence

Apologies for the complete and utter lack of updates. But we have a good reason, I swear. We just got back a few days ago from a 3 week trip whitewater rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. At a later date when we're not up to our corneas in boat projects in order to shove off, we'll put up a post and pictures about the experience. If you're maintaining a bucket list, make sure rafting the Grand Canyon is on it.

We have lots to update y'all on including the massive amount of help we got from our Ohio friends - Casey and Cathy - but we need to spend most of our time either crossing projects off the list or fretting about how many projects are still on the list.

We've lost our internet connection at home so expect posts to be few and infrequent for a spell. We're in a last minute dash to get everything done before leaving. We're still targeting May 14th to cut the dock lines. Let's see, that's how many days... one, two, ....

Oh crap.


(The image above is Christy hunkering down with Lenise while Don expertly rowed through Lava Falls. The photo was graciously taken by Tim O'Dell who photographed all the other boats at Lava before running it himself.)