OK, Karin was out of town last week and that means there’s nothing to keep me at the dock.  So I decided to head the Marie south for a few days of gunkholing around Bainbridge Island.  As is required when I go sailing….the wind was coming from the direction I wanted to go.  So that means a slow beat to windward all Friday long.  … Continue reading A little jaunt to the South….end of Bainbridge Island

It’s been a high and dry spring for us, as the s/v Marie was out of action with a defective diesel engine.  I took her on March 5th, and the folks at Harbor Marine didn’t get the new engine in until two days before Memorial Day, May 22nd. What a wait. But after being a on land for so long, we couldn’t wait to do … Continue reading Leaving Coupeville in our wake