View Single Post
Old 03-23-2017, 10:31 AM   #11
dhays
Guru
 
dhays's Avatar
 
City: Gig Harbor
Vessel Name: Kinship
Vessel Model: North Pacific 43
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 9,046
Great advice so far.

I will be a bit of a wet blanket however and suggest that you scratch the idea of heading North this year. You haven't run the boat at all, have no experience, and yet are considering a long trip to unfamiliar and challenging waters. Not to mention it involves crossing one of the most dangerous river bars in the US.

Take some courses, do some reading, get a training captain or experienced boater to go out with you so you get the experience and become comfortable boating in your home grounds. Explore the river, take the boat to other marinas for overnight stays. Get experience anchoring in different locations.

Then after you have some experience and comfort, consider a trip North next year. I would still consider hiring an experienced delivery captain to go with you across the bar and up the coast. I certainly would and I have been boating almost all my life, but have never crossed that bar.
__________________
Regards,

Dave
SPOT page
dhays is offline   Reply With Quote