Windborne in Puget Sound

I really love getting under way early in the morning!  This morning it was dead calm, the water like glass.  Just a tiny burst of power got ...

Sailors, it would seem, have little in common with gardeners.  But this time of year, in the Pacific Northwest, they are brothers and sis...

In 1980 when our kids were just toddlers, I took a picture of this intriguing tree in Washington Park in Anacortes.  It was the occasion of ...

I moved aboard at the end of 1996.  It was the end of the year, so a) I didn't spend much time outside, and b) neither did anyone else.....

Me, in the office in 1997 I can't describe it in any other way. For sixteen and a half years, we had Eolian moored in Seattle.  B...

Not everything is about sailing; there are other things. This weekend was the 2013 Dude Tour - where men of indeterminate age (I think I g...

When you have been away from home for a while, returning to home releases such wonderful feelings.  It's like they were trapped in the...

The ubiquitous cigarette lighter socket Have you ever read that old ditty about the persistence of engineering? In case you haven'...

It was grey, with lowering clouds this morning when Jane and I walked down the ramp to G Dock.  But it was one of those rare times in this s...

Are you mourning the loss of the Front Street Ale House in Friday Harbor? Sadly, I cannot report that another brewpub has opened.  But if...

Last nite I rode my bike home. End of the road Now, that in itself is not at all unusual - I do it all summer, and most of spring and f...

I'm going to do something a little risky here - I'm going to try to recreate in you a feeling we have. It's a Friday nite.  It...

Friday, Sept 16 and Saturday Sept 17 (delayed due to sparse internet connectivity in the South Sound) On an out-and-back trip, one of the...

Sunset on the eve of the Summer Solstice - 9:10 PM here in Seattle at the Western end of the timezone and up near the Canadian border.  From...

Everything's ready! When I got home tonite, Jane had everything all ready to go for a quick BBQ on the back deck.  It wasn't all ...

I confess. I am guilty as charged. I am maudlin about the end of summer.  Today is the last bit of it; tomorrow is autumn.  And here...

Something sad has happened. When we were in Friday Harbor, we discovered that the Front Street Ale House was closed. Coming to this pub has ...

It is sad. But it is a happy thing too. We are about to lose our neighbors, Curtis and Cynthia on Wind Dancer . They will be moving their ...

This last weekend we made a quick jaunt over to Port Madison. We drove over using the engine, rather than sailing, since there was no wind. ...

Last Thursday, we rushed off the dock right after I got home from work (delayed, unfortunately, by a blowout on my bicycle tire) - across th...