This whole 2010 summer


adventure was brought about by the memory of a most wonderful summer cruise in 2004. Then, however, we had a 31’ Bombay. She had an abundance of headroom, an 11’ beam, enclosed head, inboard diesel, and a displacement of 11,000 pounds. Compare that to 23’, 4’10” head room, gas outboard and a displacement of only 3,500 pounds, maybe I did need my head examined. After that summer of 2004 (May


through September) we sold our Bombay 31, thinking we could now swallow the anchor. Right—like that’s going to work. Back home, in Southern Idaho, it wasn’t long and we again could hear the Sirens call of the Sea. Not too many large ocean going vessels for sale in Idaho so finding a really nice O’Day 23, locally, we thought, “Okay, this would do for summer sails and a week or two on Puget Sound or the San Juan Islands and so it was. What we did discover is just how


good a sailor our new Fantasy was to be. We did, however, think that she was only temporary. You see we wanted to again spend months, not days, not even weeks, cruising the Pacific Northwest. For this we needed, or so we thought, a larger boat. So, for a couple of years we kept an eye on sailboat ads. We saved, wanting enough in the cruising kitty to purchase the larger boat and again take off cruising for four or five months. All was going smoothly until, wait for it, here it comes, the down turn in 2007. We found ourselves in a Catch


22—enough money to purchase a new boat (well new to us) but nothing left to cruise on or enough to cruise but no boat. Well, that’s not quite correct. We did have a boat, it’s just that she was only 23’ and you can’t stand up in her. What to do? Here fate sort of stepped in to


nudge us along. In January, 2010, I found myself with an extra 40 hours per week of time on my hands (sounds better than being laid off, doesn’t change anything, as your still unemployed). At least it looked as if we would have the summer free to do what we wanted. We had spent five weeks cruising on our 23’ footer, but we did have unusually pleasant weather during that time. I guess we could hope for five months of the same,


right? Probably not. We knew that all sailing is subject to variables: variable winds, variable weather, variable unseen events. Well, we’d handled that and more on past sails, why not on this one?


With this in mind it was time to get


down to the realities of cruise planning. As in years past (this would be our 22nd year since we first dipped our keel in the “Big Water,” now the Salish Sea”) we planned not to plan our destinations. Oh, we had places we wanted to visit but no set time, save a few, to get there. We did, however, thoroughly plan our


As in years past (this would be our 22nd year since we first dipped our keel in the “Big Water,” now the Salish Sea”) we planned not to plan our destinations. Oh, we had places we wanted to visit but no set time, save a few, to get there.


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