Today dawned bright and clear in Tsehum Harbor. (Go ahead, pronounce it!) There wasn’t a hint of breeze, however. Not a problem, we will motor until the breeze sets in. Meanwhile we will look for opportunities to practice landings. We were looking for a nice piece of driftwood to act as a surrogate for a dock. Well we finally settled on a rather wimpy stalk of floating kelp. Continue reading The Great Sailing Adventure – The New Skipper:
Category Archives: Sailing
The Great Sailing Adventure – Sailing:
What a beautiful day. Under way from Clam Bay, Thetis Island by 9:30 and under sail by 10:00. We were able to sail almost continuously for the whole 23 nautical miles and nine wonderful hours. The breezes were perfect at about 10 knots and only failed us briefly near the end of Athol Peninsula on Saltspring Island. Continue reading The Great Sailing Adventure – Sailing:
The Great Sailing Adventure – Anticipation:
From the annuls of this blog you have learned that Judy and I gave “Regal Jug,” our much loved and pampered Aquarius 23, sailboat, to our son and his family in Gilroy California. Right from the start I was afraid this would happen… Glen has come down with a severe case of sailing fever. In fact I look at the posts on Barb’s Facebook page and I see all the symptoms in his face. Nervous glances into the rigging to see if he can wring a couple tenths of a knot more speed out of the boat by twitching a sheet just a bit. Checking the telltales to be sure he is not luffing or stalling the sails. Checking the want ads for a boat that is just about two feet longer, (classic case of two-foot-itus.) I should know, I had the same disease for years. It has been more or less dormant since we got the motor home, but I have suspected all along… I am a carrier Continue reading The Great Sailing Adventure – Anticipation:
Skipper Emeritis
I have officially adopted the title of Skipper Emeritus. That is Skipper as in the master of a small vessel and Emeritus as in Retired but retaining the title and honors of a professional position. As Skipper Emeritus of the Regal Jug I get to stand around and critically review the performance of the new Skipper and Crew.
On Saturday we all took the Regal Jug to Anderson Lake. Since the last time we went sailing we did some repair work on the main sail, so it took us quite a bit of time to put on the sail and get ready for launch. It would probably be unfair to mark the crew down for this performance, but there is certainly room for improvement. Launch went perfectly; no runaway boat and no one got dunked. I stepped up and did the official starting of the auxiliary engine. We dropped our moorings and left Patrick stranded on the float. After circling back and running a landing we were able to retrieve our AWOL crew member. Continue reading Skipper Emeritis
An Adoption:
Regal Jug is our 23 foot sailboat. It has been in the family since 1974. For many years we had an annual vacation somewhere in the San Juan Islands of Washington, or the Gulf Islands of Canada. The last couple years we have not done any major trips in Regal Jug.
This year Regal Jug was adopted by our son, Glen’s family. Two weeks ago they met us in Oregon and picked up the boat. They spent last weekend cleaning and updating the maintenance on the boat. This weekend we arrived in Gilroy and we formalized the adoption by going to a local lake and launching the boat and having an inaugural sail. Continue reading An Adoption: