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• 2016 in Review
  on Dec 20, 2016 in Mini Van Life Pacific NorthWest Road Trips Trawler Life Work
  I haven’t done one of these reviews since 2012 — the first year we cruised on Camille. We bought Limerick Christmas 2015 and the first thing we did was to take a little shakedown cruise for the new year. A trip to the San Juan Islands...
• Another Fun and Easy Holiday Gift Idea
  on Dec 13, 2016 in California Lessons & Tips
  What’s better than a homemade gift? Being able to go to the beach to collect rocks for the home-made gift in — December! We collected about half a 5-gallon bucket full of small beach rocks to make five of these early spring blooms. Fill...
• Easy (and tasty) Home-Made Holiday Gifts
  on Nov 28, 2016 in Galley
  When making home-made holiday gifts on a boat I have limited options since I don’t have much space to spread out. I also have to be able to complete them in a day so we can change our “craft area” back into usable space. Making t...
• That’s a Wrap!
  on Nov 2, 2016 in Boat Projects Lessons & Tips Pacific NorthWest Trawler Life Work
  In our opinion, the Pacific Northwest is the most beautiful cruising grounds in the world, but the cruising season can be rather short – some say it’s only two months: July and August. Of course when cruising on a trawler with a heater,...
• The Broughton Archipelago and Thoughts on Cruising Guides
  on Jul 4, 2016 in Pacific NorthWest Trawler Life
  The Broughton Archipelago is located east of Vancouver Island and made up of hundreds of islets and a few big islands. It is the farthest north we are able to travel this summer as work is calling… A Note About Cruising Guides We have a collec...
• Camille is for Sale… Again!
  on Jul 3, 2016 in Boat Projects
  Our previous boat Camille has been in the hands of a great owner for the past two years. A growing family forces them to downsize and sell Camille. They haven’t used her much and I hear she is in similar condition as when we sold her. She wa...
• Princess Louisa Inlet, BC
  on Jun 1, 2016 in Canada Trawler Life Videos Video
  Our cruising guide states that Princess Louisa Inlet is the “‘holy grail’ for cruising people all over the world”. It did not disappoint. After a 40 mile trek up beautiful Jarvis Inlet we arrived at the entrance to Princess L...
• Dodd Narrows, BC
  on May 24, 2016 in Canada Trawler Life Videos Video
  Seeing the BC ferries is a sure sign that we made it to Canada! We checked in at Bedwell Harbor with a simple phone call to customs. The poor chap next to us was searched and interviewed for hours. He was complaining loudly about his fate, so it jus...
• Shallow Bay, Sucia Island, San Juans
  on May 21, 2016 in Pacific NorthWest
  We left Anacortes in the rain with the promise of more rain to come. Our destination being the West side of Sucia Island in a perfect little cove that we had stumbled upon the last time we were at Sucia Island a little over a month ago. The promised...
• From the Interstate to the San Juan Islands
  on Apr 23, 2016 in California Mini Van Life Pacific NorthWest Road Trips Trawler Life
  After three weeks in sunny San Diego it was time to head back to the boat…. One of the reasons we made the trip to San Diego was to pick up our cargo trailer full of boat and household stuff.  We took full advantage of having access to a ga...

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