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North to Alaska

This post is best viewed on a computer or large screen: There’s lots of high resolution photos. If you don’t know the history and prep that led up to this trip, check out my past blog posts! With that said… On to the Adventures! May 15-18: Freil Falls & The Harmony Islands The Harmony Islands …

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The Adventure Begins

Covid seems to be affecting everyone’s life in different ways. For me, lucky enough to have a stable, “essential” job in Dryden, Ontario, nothing really seemed to change for most of 2020 until I applied for the 2021 Race to Alaska. The Race to Alaska, or R2AK, is a 1000+ km race from Port Townsend, …

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Cocaine & Waves

Sometime in the summer of 2015  – Tim, the fellow liveaboard sailor who had sold me my little 25’ Coronado sailboat, Seileaster, knocked on my hull one Friday afternoon as I sat napping below: “Ahoy! There’s a bunch of guys heading up to Halkett Bay for a get together, if you want to join.  I’d …

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Banff or Bust

Once in a while, you have to just get out there and shake off the dust, see something you haven’t before. With COVID-19 in full swing and fall in full effect, Banff was about the farthest I could get with a single week off. Luckily, my usual trip tactic of “take the cheapest transportation possible …

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Memories of the past

Pender Harbour had been welcoming the night before, lit up with the lights of the houses as Seileastar slowly chugged in, her little diesel turning over as smooth as ever. Nobody had turned up to oust me from the mussel-covered buoy that bobbed in the little bay where I ducked in, and so the next …

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