At Port McNeil

http://gallery.me.com/sundogjoe/100657 If weather is good we will cross Queen Charlotte tomorrow First truly exposed Crossing and about 50 miles Cheers Joe

Lagoon Cove – A Special Place

Sitting at the DSL hookup at the top of the docks in Lagoon Cove.  This is a very special place, in fact it almost feels like a place out of a sea side story book for kids.  Caleb was most excited to get to the workout station that was promised but was quickly giving me […]

Slowly But Majestically

Saturday May 21st http://gallery.me.com/sundogjoe/100657 The older caretaker looked pretty calm as he motioned me up to the dock.  He calmly said 3 knots current and then had a patient look like that meant something important to me to factor into my approach.  Luckily I have had some experience running rivers and I let the current […]

Our Location on May 21st, 2011 6 pm

Check out our progress here, on our interactive map page!

Shoal Bay – After Yaculta and Dent Rapids

Will write more later if I can get online but we are in Shoal bay tied up with our partners the Wandrian as they work through getting their water pump working.  The rapids were mostly uneventful as we timed the tide right but as we went through the end of the Dent rapids it started […]

Our first dusting

Photos: http://gallery.me.com/sundogjoe/100620 Up at 4:30 a.m. this morning for our crossing from Nanaimo and across the strait of Georgia.  We were up early to beat the wind but it did not help much as we had gusts of up to 45kts and even though the sunrise was beautiful the seas quickly rose to 3-4 feet and […]

Prepping for tomorrows crossing

Getting boat ship shape for crossing straits of Georgia tomorrow Have to avoid a torpedo area Cheers Joe

At Nanaimo Canada

Cleared Canadian Customs

http://gallery.me.com/sundogjoe#100612 At port in Sidney eh and catching up on some email and planning for our run to Nanaimo tomorrow – paying special attention to Dodd Narrows as we need to make sure to transit somewhere near the slack tide.   Feels like yesterday that we left Roche harbor and our time at the Grand […]

Port of Sydney

Boys enjoying Aquarium