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Howdy y'all! I'm a sailing geek, design freak, bike nerd; Vermont born, Pennsylvania bred, Seattle guy. Most comfortable standing at the helm in a freezing drizzle sailing the Salish Sea, but secretly looking forward to much warmer waters.
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Cruising BC’s southern Gulf Islands

    • Journeys
  • 21 January, 2020
  • 2.4K views
If you have not already read the first post in this series, you can do that here. Bedwell…
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Cruising with Crew – The southern Gulf Islands BC

    • Journeys
  • 15 December, 2019
  • 2.1K views
On our summer Cruise this year we did something that we’ve never done before, we took crew with…
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Project creep

    • Everyday lore
    • Ship Shape
  • 25 November, 2019
  • 2.8K views
Project Creep and the precarious art of getting very little accomplished. Boat projects always turn out to be more involved than you first think.
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The slow way around Bainbridge

    • Journeys
  • 26 October, 2017
  • 4.4K views
We took nearly four days to complete what should be about a eight hour trip. A slow circumnavitation of Bainbridge Island was a perfect journey for the long weekend.
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A couple of video teasers

    • Everyday lore
  • 27 July, 2017
  • 4.0K views
Hong has been honing her video editing skills and came up with a couple of cool teasers for…
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Devices, devices – everywhere. Installing USB power outlets.

    • Outfitting
    • Ship Shape
  • 17 May, 2017
  • 5.2K views
I was at the helm not too long ago and noticed that with another family aboard, we had…
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Victron Bluesolar MPPT controller 100/50

Getting the solar panels dialed in

    • Outfitting
    • Ship Shape
  • 14 April, 2017
  • 4.7K views
When we purchased Lutris she had a couple of 55W solar panels that came with her. Once we…
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There is much to be said

    • Everyday lore
  • 22 March, 2017
  • 4.2K views
The saga of Lutris getting “lost” last year during her transport is coming to an end. The lawyers…
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Missing … and Found

    • Everyday lore
  • 6 July, 2016
  • 3.4K views
There is certainly going to be a longer explanation of this entire saga, if for no other reason…
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Where for art thou?

    • Everyday lore
  • 10 June, 2016
  • 3.3K views
Today marks three weeks since I waved goodbye to Lutris [as Eärendil] as she pulled out of the…
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Meet Lutris

    • Everyday lore
  • 21 May, 2016
  • 3.1K views
I’m building this blog right over the top of our former blog, Aboard Insolita. That means that everything…
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Weigh Anchor

    • Insolita
  • 11 February, 2016
  • 2.6K views
We’ve always weighed anchor by hand, I’ve never had a boat with a windlass, and it’s never really…
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New Sail Shakedown

    • Insolita
  • 30 January, 2016
  • 2.4K views
Chris and I were able to get out for a lovely daysail, and put a stiff breeze into…
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More Power, Dockside

    • Insolita
  • 24 January, 2016
  • 2.4K views
So when we left off our story, I had added 3 new Group 31 AGMs. 2 in the…
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More power, baby

    • Insolita
  • 16 January, 2016
  • 2.6K views
This winter I am hoping to tackle a 4 phased upgrade to Insolita’s charging and battery systems. Going…
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