Category: Contessa 26

  • Rudder Updates! (And, how big was that log, anyway?!)

    Rudder Updates! (And, how big was that log, anyway?!)

    In the way that all good authors do, I’ll talk about the second point first! Just how big WAS the log that took Finch’s rudder off? I certainly hadn’t seen it before the moment of impact, and as it happened in the pitch blackness I couldn’t see much (And was more focused on the rudder…

  • Finch loses her Rudder…

    Finch loses her Rudder…

    Late Fall, 2024…. Heading south from Alaska, I had spent the last 3 weeks dodging gales, as the late-fall low pressure systems began to roll over the north and central BC coast. Ducking south into Queen Charlotte Strait had brought a little relief, but after a circumnavigation of that same strait with a friend on…