Shout out to Halcyon’s previous owners, John and Kay Robinson, who gifted us a wonderful bottle of wine before we left Shilshole. We felt very civilized with our fancy Cab Franc and our clam linguini in a white wine reduction sauce.
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Shout out to Halcyon’s previous owners, John and Kay Robinson, who gifted us a wonderful bottle of wine before we left Shilshole. We felt very civilized with our fancy Cab Franc and our clam linguini in a white wine reduction sauce.
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It’s getting colder, but we are also moving north. One day, it was hot enough to voluntarily jump in to cool down. Then a low-pressure system rolled through and seemed to sweep summer away with it. I’m in boots and foulies every day now. We made clam chowder. In…
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Update: Click here to read the archived article
The September edition of 48 North is out and I have an article in it – you can check it out online, pick one up at a marine type place, or get one ordered to your door!
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We were going through some things in the vee berth today and came across a rolled up scroll I didn’t recognize. Some sneaky elf stashed a depiction of “Halsion Island” without us ever noticing! (we’re looking at you, Savai)
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For the elevendieth day in a row, we were motoring up wind. We had 17-20 knots of wind right on the nose, enough wind that our forward progress was diminished to 4 knots, even though we should have had current helping us. I was at the wheel, and I…
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Shout out to Christy and Jason for John’s favorite new toy. He now knows the depths of all the corners of all the anchorages we’ve stayed in so far. I can’t say it’s resulted in more fish, but it has kept him occupied.
The downrigger, we’ve learned (twice), doesn’t like…
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I set out to write a blog post about the sheep on Jedidiah Island (spoiler alert). To do that, I wanted to write about how glad we were our windlass worked when we arrived at Jedidiah. To do that, I had to explain that we had just fixed our…
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So what in the world are you doing, anyway?
It’s what everyone is thinking, we know. But to be honest, we’re not quite sure. While we have a general idea of what our plan is and why we’re doing this, we don’t really know very many specifics yet. But we…
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I’ve started a page (it’s right here) about our ongoing cruise-long Gin Rummy tournament in order to up the stakes and allow you to have a good laugh at us along the way. Each pre-determined leg of the journey will be a new game with the loser required to complete the…
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Well, we had an arduous first day…
It started with breakfast with friends, a stroll through the Ballard farmer’s market, and a trip to Captain’s for some new reading material.
Followed by cutting the lines (with a machete, of course)
and a cast off by a few close friends, then lots of waves…
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