Summer Check List Almost Complete............

..........almost time to start heading south!

Bainbridge/Seattle Summer
(Partial) Check List:

Clean and do repairs on the Frey Rd. House

before new tenant moves in. ✔

House/Dog/Plant Sit for two weeks while kids
go to Ireland.✔

A week long camping trip with the kids in
South Central Washington.✔

Sell one of our Wenatchee rental houses. ✔

Cut back/clean up yards of Bainbridge houses -
10 pick-up loads to yard waste facility. ✔

Annual Physicals. ✔

Meeting with accountant for 2015 taxes
(We got an extension) and financial advisor.✔
This is the view from her office.
The Seattle/Puget Sound area can't be beat in t
he summer!

Babysit and just spend time with Simon, Kelsey,
RL and Barlow. ✔

Boat Stuff:

Get dodger and dinghy chaps re-stitched. ✔

Rebuild old starter motor to use as a spare.✔

Make two new hatch screens.✔

Make new cockpit cushion covers.✔

Many trips to Fisheries Supply Supply.✔

Fix Boomvang.

Visit friends and family.
(no ✔ because we NEVER get to see everyone we wanted to see)
A perfect sunset bon voyage dinner cruise from
Bainbridge Island to Indianola. (notice Mt. Rainier)
Thanks Tom and Claudette!

We're leaving Seattle on October 8, visiting family and friends along the way, and scheduled to arrive in San Carlos on October 21st.

We did finally get a picture of L-L:
Still standing and looking good!
Notice the "hurricane poles" (instead of just jack stands). We
requested them again for next year.

Mexico.....here we come.........

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Mexico Ferry Travel: Getting from Guaymas to Baja and Back

Since our car was in Puerto Escondido in Baja and we and Loomba-Loomba were in San Carlos on the mainland, we decided to make an adventure out of getting the car over to the mainland and do a Copper Canyon trip on the way back to Guaymas. This involved two different ferry trips, a bus, lots of driving, and a train. Ferry travel is not cheap or easy in Mexico. We arrived at the 8PM ferry (Guaymas – Santa Rosalia) on Saturday May 27 th at 6PM, as required. There had been some pretty strong northerlies for a few days and the ferry isn’t very big so we asked if it was definitely going to sail. They said yes so our friend, Ray, who had given us a ride from San Carlos, left. At 7:45 they decided the weather was too bad to go – next ferry would be Monday (maybe). We took a taxi back to the boat and decided to wait until Tuesday the 29 th . This time we had Ray ( who speaks fluent Spanish) call and make a reservation in a cabin for us for Tuesday. ...

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:

S/V Loomba-Loomba

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