Summer Sailing

As I was cleaning up my office today, I found these photos that someone sent to me this summer. We were sailing from Inati Bay to Bellingham. I think Steve H. took these photos. Thanks, I don’t actually have too many photos of me under sail.

Spencer Spit

Wow, we really have been getting out a bunch here lately. The heater install has made these early season excursions downright nice.

We ended up leaving early Friday morning so that we could meet with BJ and Tricia. We hadn't seen them in a while and it was nice to hook up. We had a nice dinner and spent the evening playing games. The next day several folks from Bellingham showed up and they had a mini raft up. We decided to bail on the raftup since the wind was a bit stronger than I was liking.

On Saturday, my outboard really started pissing me off so I decided to completely rebuild the carburetor. These are the thing that we like to do in the wilderness. Luckily I had a can of carb cleaner and a bucket. I pulled the whole thing apart four time cleaning out the gunk. Each time I would put it back together, it would start working and quite. I would pull it apart and find more gunk in the jets. After pulling apart everything in the fuel system except for the fuel pump and reassembling everything, I finally gave in and pulled apart the fuel pump. Of course there was all kinds of little pieces of shellac in the pump. The source of the goo. After a final reassembly everything started working fine. Of course, that night I decided to motor ashore and the motor quit about half way there! This time I ran out of gas. Geez. What a bonehead I am sometimes. However, now the motor runs great and I can work on fixing some other things.

Not a bad place to hang for the weekend.

The Old Cabin at Spencer Spit

The obligatory Bruno photo

As always, more photos can be found by clicking on the link below:

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Inati Bay Raftup

Whew! Spring finally arrived with temperatures in the high 70s to lower 80s. Even if we already had opening day, I don't think boating season really was up and moving yet. So to commemorate that yellow thing in the sky that we haven't seen in quite a while, we put together an impromptu raft up in Inati bay. Inati bay is only about an hour away from Bellingham, but mentally it seems much farther. Kathy and I sailed over on Friday night and were joined by Wayne and Trudy aboard Mahala. Trudy made a most excelent spaghetti dinner.
The next day we were invaded by many boats from the BYC. As you might guess, this involved some serious lounging about

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That evening Steve Heyward and Monica of San Suci (A 50' steel Belgium canal boat) made a huge plate of Enchiladas and Margahrita. Yum.

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The evening was spent lounging on the beach by a fire doing the S'mores thing.

The next day, Kathy and I took Kalliope home on a nice beam reach with about 18 kts. We managed

7.5 kts across the entire bay. Yowser! Much fun. And this is only May!

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