Down to Old Vashon Island

We scooted down wind averaging around 6kts from Shilshole to Vashon Island in the beautiful fresh Northerly. (Really need to get the Asym up and running and it would be more like 8kts!)

We spent the night at Dockton Park, a very small, quite yet very modern marina. For anyone thinking of spending a night here the docks are all free from 8am to 8pm, then there is very good anchorage for the night (some exposure to the North).

The next day was a grind beating all the way up to home in 7 hours in 10 - 25kts of sunny breeze.

Finally home where we got to enjoy the sunset over some brats from the new and improved BBQ. A great trip overall thanks to some last summer rays and my grandparents Liz and Carl who graciously drove us around Vashon and kept us fed.

SAN JAUNS

Chris Brown's Catalina 22 "TA-KEEL-AH"

The Dream Team Crew

Beautiful Blakely Island, where we got to witness a crazy wedding of some locals.

Tug Zoe!

Zoe's new Asym

Just picked up a J-80 Asymetrical sail for Zoe. Jim let me try it out on Valkerie and Tim took some sick footage...

Father's Day Cruise

The Tbird Father's Day weekend cruise went off with out a hitch. We were blessed with a moderate Northerly on the way to Port Madison and didn't have to tack or jibe once.

The hospitality we received at Port Madison was awesome. They have a perfectly set up club house that only includes the necessities: Docks, Bathroom, Shelter and BBQ. One of the local Tbirds, Gull, came out to race but unfortunately the wind shut off for the night completely and only Puffy was able to scoot across the finish line for the first and last race.

Above is pictured my Dad expertly handing the bow lines in the Ballard Locks.



Thanks to Port Madison for the host, hope we are allowed to sail over again.

Puget Sound Cruising

Last weekend we headed out on the Sound to take a long weekend and cruise up to Port Townsend. A nice fresh Northerly provided us with a relaxing sail across the sound from Shilshole as the sun set to the West. Once dark, the wind and swell picked up a bit and we decided to motor the last bit of upwind into Kingston Marina. My dislike for large gasoline powered vessels was slightly increased when one cut in front of us at full speed, leaving a wake that sent a wave of salty water down the bow hatch and on to my clothes... Guess I need to get a hatch lock.

The following morning we set out for PT. We had a ebb current, blue sky but unfortunatly a headwind that kept backing to the West the more West we wanted to go. After a couple of hours beating into the wind we were barley to Pt. No Point. Right there we decided to put off PT for another weekend and with great pleasure set chute in the brisk NW'ly on our way to new destination, the mighty Viking port of Poulsbo.



A Quick stop over in Indianola from some BBQ, raft floating and trying out the racing anchor for the first time... it held!



Blessed with another beautiful sunset from a mooring buoy on Blake Island.




The trip home was fairly uneventful, except waiting at the locks for three hours due to salmon hatch maintenance, but we made it back in time just for class... whoohoo... Can't wait to get back out on the Sound and maybe next time make it up to Port Townsend.

Looking forward the the Port Madison cruise in a couple weeks!!!

Silver Duck

This Tuesday night blessed us with another fair breeze and clear skies, and also a silver duck. With our first "duck dodge on time" start we fought it out with Scat on every leg of the course and pulled away with a 2nd place.

Electric Duck Dodge

It was one of the wettest, shiftiest and exciting nights I've had on Lake Union. Thank god for the Space Needle!!!We got 4th, so close to a duck!