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Video: Boating in the San Juan Islands | Sucia Island in the Rain
Sometimes a rainy day on the boat can be a wonderful thing. Rather than feeling the obligation to go out exploring, go for a hike, or some other form of exercise, an occasional day of damp and chilly weather while cruising…
Sailing Johnstone Strait in 2 Days – What a Wild Ride!
Heading up Johnstone Strait is one of the hardest sailing challenges we anticipated for our cruise, and this year we planned for it to take as long as 5 days. Many boats motor it in 1-2 days, but we wanted to sail, and had a…
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Video: Boating in the San Juan Islands | Around Shaw Island
With a few days (in a row) of spring weather and a few days off from work, I decided to seize the opportunity to get away. I didn’t really feel like going very far, and even though I’ve spent a lot of time cruising the San…
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Non-skid paint: What worked for us
A year ago we wrote about our experiences with KiwiGrip non-skid paint and how we were pretty unhappy with it because the sharp ridges trap dirt very tenaciously, making the paint appear permanently dirty, even after…
Installing and networking a Class B AIS transceiver with a chartplotter and VHF radio
In 2015 I purchased an AIS receiver for a trip up the Inside Passage. This posting is largely an upgrade of the posting for that installation. I suspected at the time I might look back on a reciever as a false economy, and…
Best LTE antenna and booster for the boat
For almost two years I have been testing, re-testing, and re-wiring my setup on Grace in an effort to find the best LTE antenna configuration. I don’t remember another project I worked on that took so much time and effort to…
