Recent content by captjamied

BC to Portland I just made that trip a couple weeks ago...I (unfortunately) have quite a bit of experience making that passage both ways this time of year. Best advice is to keep your eyes on the forecasts, be prepared to boogy...as soon as the low has passed, it will usually take a few days to...

Again, sorry...you're talking to a federal employee. I'm all for reducing waste, fraud, and abuse...changes nothing.

Yeah...sorry, but I like those roads, schools, USCG, and everything else that has to get paid for.

Astoria tax. A. It only applies to merchant vessels. B. You could always just stay on the Washington side... There is an issue of vessels anchoring in the basin, using services, not taking fuel, waiting to be loaded up river...sometimes for weeks. As that stretch of water in particular is my...

my choice... I needed aradar in a pinch...I had just purchased my boat with no working radar or chart plotter and I had to get her up the coast. My choice was a Furuno First Watch and Open CPN on a lap top. https://www.furuno.com/special/en/wireless/radar/ I am very happy I did. I have since...

...dropped the ball Hi all, Sorry for the untimely reply, but better late than never, right...? So as everyone knows the trip up (last year) was completely weather dictated and yes, I did have to duck in a couple of times but all in all the trip went well if not entirely smoothly (more on that...

Thanks ! I hope to be hauled out in Port Townsend (my home town) within a month.

Hi all, this looks like a great site and I look forward to being able to explore all that is going on here. I just recently...happened...into a 1976 56' Campbell Yachts twin diesel. It is quite a boat. I have big plans for her, but the biggest challenge I have found so far is getting her home...

56' Twin Diesel Research Vessel