Destinations: Circumnavigating Cortes Island
Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com… Not a ripple breaks the stillness across Squirrel Cove, one of Cortes Island’s best anchorages. (Photo by Ken…
Destinations: Port Angeles au natural
Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com… Port Angeles, with Mount Angeles and the Olympic Mountains rising behind. (Photo by Wester Van) If the San Juan…
Destinations: Getting high on Hornby
Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com… Looking down and across to Denman Island from the Mt Geoffrey Escarpment. The generation to which you belong might…
Winning the war on drips
It’s a long hard struggle to get the upper hand on condensation and its fungal accomplices. The temperature dipped to the lowest it had been this winter and I became, I admit, obsessed with the nemesis of my life as a…
Salish Sea Pilot’s guide to the Broughtons is here
This photo which Lynne snapped on a glorious morning in Drury Inlet graces the cover of our new guide to the Broughton Archipelago. Blogging has fallen off the radar as Lynne and I tacked like mad against headwinds to get…
Destinations: Signs of life at Dead Point
Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com… The lovely bay southeast of Dead Point might give you the illusion that you are the first to arrive. That’s the…
Forward Harbour welcome
Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com… A view east down Forward Harbour from the anchorage at Douglas Bay. (Photo by Salish Sea Pilot) The crew had grown…
Stern-tie angst
Even the smallest anchorages can feel expanssive when all vessels stern tie. (Photo by Wilf Ratzburg) There are times, chatting with other cruisers, when someone says, sometimes as a confession, sometimes defiantly, that…
Destinations: Southern trepidation
To implore our readers from British Columbia to venture south of the border, here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com... An idyllic view down East Sound on…
Destinations: The Russell Island howl
Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com… Looking across to Salt Spring Island and (right) up into Fulford Harbour. The scream brought life on Russell…