Third time's the charm.......

When we left for Palm Springs Domingo was in the process of removing the paint that he had painted on the non-skid (right before it rained). He promised he would only work on Loomba-Loomba and have her all painted by the time we got back. We got back on 1/2/13and he had hardly done anything. The day after our return he re-painted some of the non skid. It looked awful - totally unacceptable -LAST STRAW. We fired him.

The unacceptable non-skid - 2nd try.

Francisco, Domingo's dad, finished the job for what we still owed Domingo for a finished, acceptable job. He totally ground off all the non-skid again, starting from scratch with a different type of non-skid.

A very good and quick job. Francisco is the painter we first approached last spring, but he was too busy and recommended Domingo. We should have just waited for Francisco - hind sight!

The new non-skid (3rd and final try) & deck paint.

Francisco and his wife work together.

Anyway, after the most frustrating 4 months of our lives, we have a good paint job, we can get back on the boat and start getting our own projects done, we're not grumpy anymore, and we have control of our lives again!

This is our little casita where we've been living since we returned from Palm Springs.
We will stay here until Loomba-Loomba is habitable.

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Two Fall Road Trips 2023

The first trip was doing the Selkirk Loop. We headed first to eastern Washington, then northern Idaho, then British Columbia. We highly recommend. Crossing the Columbia Priest Lake, Idaho The FREE ferry across Kootenay Lake We headed to Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park. It was beautiful, nice hikes, good...

North to Southeast Alaska

Our old friend, Roger, invited us to join him (as crew) on his first leg home from Sitka to Seattle. We did the first leg (and most scenic) from Sitka to Petersburg. He has been heading north on a boat from the Seattle area every summer since he was a little kid so he knows the area well. We flew into Sitka (arriving at 3PM), got a taxi to the harbor, jumped into the skiff, headed out to the boat, and we were on our way to Kalinin Bay on Kruzof Island for the night. (Jim's hat says "Where's the Fish") The next morning we headed north and into the Pacific along the Khaz Peninsula, inside Klokachef Island, up around Khaz head and then various anchorages around Baranof Island, Admiralty Island and Kupreanof Island. The weather wasn't the greatest, but we did have some sunny days, mostly calm waters, lots of wildlife and good fishing and beautiful scenery:

North to Vancouver Island..........

........this time on our van aboard the Coho Ferry to Victoria. It was a really fun week visiting old cruising friends and for Jim to see old haunts from his time living in Victoria (many years ago). The Coho ferry leaves Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula and arrives in downtown Victoria in one and a half hours: We drove up the west side of Vancouver Island then cut across to a wonderful Provincial C ampground on Gordon Bay on a beautiful lake. The Provincial Campgrounds are big and very well maintained. From Gordon Bay Campground we headed to Nanaimo to hook up with Bob and Gisele Coffey (s/v Relax) where we spent the night. We did a lot of catching up, took a couple of walks around the ponds surrounding their neighborhood and then headed up to another BIG and Beautiful Provincial Park:Rathtrevor Provincial Park about one hour north of Nanaimo. We spent two nights "buddy vanning". . From there we drove (along with Coffeys) down to Shawnigan Lake to visit Ian and Diane (...

S/V Loomba-Loomba

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