Upwind Adventures

07/09/2024

Great Great day on the water yesterday. Winds 10-16 knots from the Northeast...just a perfect sail over to downtown waterfront, with great new friends onboard. Stopped in Manchester, on Tom and Dana's mooring ball, for lunch. Then crossed the shipping lanes into downtown Seattle. Marty did a great job at the helm all day.

01/05/2024

Time to host the 2024 Memorial Day Cruise !! Here is a short slide show of all fun we had last year. It was a great time with boating friends. We hope to have a bigger cruise this year. We hope to raft up in a "wagon wheel" this year. Cruise Dinner on Sat. night with SUP (stand up paddle boards) racing on Sunday.

24/11/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyvJNYTTY_Y

Roscoe bay relax day of paddle boarding and hiking. Super awesome day.

02/10/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejY_MRgFz5k

Part 4 ! we made it into Roscoe Bay (not with out pucker factor). Great place to enjoy some paddling and hiking.

Our first stern tie. Not the best, but we learned a lot. As you will see in video's to come, we get better :) We were late getting to Roscoe bay and the t...

16/09/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itT9tOfvJog

Part 3 is out. We make into Desolation Sound and are greeted in style.

Into Desolation Sound ! we made it.

04/09/2023

Finally have part 2 of Bro's 2023 Destination Desolation done. See video link. I will be working to get all the videos up soon. It was a great trip.

Checked into Canada and on our way North !

03/09/2023

Out sailing yesterday ! turned out to be a great day. Nice and hot and some wind from Blake Island to downtown Seattle.

06/08/2023

Bro's Get-together 2023 was "Destination Desolation" Sailing from Port Orchard, Wa. to Desolation Sound in British Columbia, Canada. Its 204.9 nautical miles. We did it in 4 days. Then spent 8 days exploring Desolation Sound. I'm going to put together a short series of post chronicling our adventures. It was a great time. with out further ado here is part 1: day one and two :) PS. when the chart show "vessel no go zone" ....that mean you :)

04/07/2023

Great sailing family onboard. Thanks for coming out Pops, Colby, Bri, Mary and the little guy. Really liking the insta 360 still working out how to use and edit with it.

01/07/2023

Cockpit playground

04/06/2023

Part Two: I had planned to be on the hard for 3 days, so back in the water on monday, Be I became We, as my brother was in town and helped me "get'r done" so the new plan was prep bottom, then David paint as I worked on replacing dripless system and change transducer. With the whole spin around thing we were on putting on the first coats of paint until 5pm. Paint needs 3 hours in between coats, and to set overnight before going back in the water. So we thought we could still get it done and be back in the water with the last lift of the day. Then things went the way of boat work. The old dripless system was really stuck in place. It took me over 3 hours and a half can of PB blaster to get the old system removed. Then for a break we looked at the new speed in water/depth transducer and saw that it was 1/2 bigger than the old speed only transducer so it was not going to be a plug and play. So its now 8pm and David is putting on second complete coat. At least that was going well. We called it a night and hide from the security guard and spent the night on the hard. Next morning we verified we could go back in at 3pm. I went back to the cramped engine room and Dave started looking at transducer as he waited for marina workers to come move the stands so he could paint the spot they were. The new dripless went in easier, but we had a hard time getting the 3/4" preload on the bellows. Dave came and took a look and was able to pry it back with a 2x4. So I finished up the install. Dave finished the painting and went to "work" on the thru hull. He ended up breaking the old one out and installing the new one. We persuaded the new transducer into place, tight fit. And to our surprise we were ready to go back in the water ! we even had time for a sit down lunch. With no leaks on the dripless and thru hull off we went. We motor for 1 hour to break in the dripless system. Then stopped the motor and raised the sails at it was blowing a very nice 12-15 knts from the stern. We hit the dock about 7pm, exhausted, but very satisfied with the hard quick work.

04/06/2023

ClearWater haul out for Summer Cruise Prep for Desolation Sound. Part one.

With scheduled haul out at Edmonds marina for 2:30 friday we departed Port Orchard at 8am to catch the outgoing tide under Agate bridge. We arrived into marina with no issues about two hours early. Got all checked in and paid up and just waited for our scheduled lift time. First try in the lift was in forward but with the bow sprit the head sail was too close to lifts front support. So I thought we would be a no go, but the operator said we will just turn you around. HUGE shout out to the Edmonds marina workers they were all great! So up we went in backwards and over to the yard to go on the hard. The rest of the story.......in part two

03/06/2023

Beautiful downwind sailing now that dripless system is broken in.

03/06/2023

Well deserved lunch. Getting launched back in water at 2.

02/06/2023

Arrived, waiting for lift.

02/06/2023

Made it.....wheeeeew

02/06/2023

Off to Edmonds for haul- out, bottom paint, new dripless drive shaft system, changing out depth sounder and speed through water transducer.

29/04/2023

I know you all have seen this before, but man She loves going dead down wind. 5 knts apparent, 4.5 knts SOG.

22/04/2023

Oh the smell!

22/04/2023

The SUN actually came out for a few minutes.

22/04/2023

You knew it was coming......Bri's buoy full today!

22/04/2023

Finally getting ClearWater away from the slip. Out drying sails and checking out new systems. So far everything looks good. New transducer not installed until we haul out on 5th.

13/03/2023

Radar and Wind instrument install continue.

04/03/2023

....and so it begins. Major upgrades to ClearWater. Adding wind instruments, depth and speed with i70 display. Also adding Quantum 2 doppler radar. Should be quite the project. Today is NMEA 2000 and Seatalk NG network day.

02/10/2022

On our short sail tonight "I spy'd" some other club members out taking advantage of the weather.

02/10/2022

Sunset Sail with Colby, Bri, Solaire and Maggie. It was a short sail, but very nice :) of course Solaire stole the show ! he really likes being onboard. Colby is going to post some of his dance moves from the cabin.

01/10/2022

New whisker pole set up. Found this pole at second hand marina.