IRENE
Guru
Greetings All,
We have been cruising from Port Angeles, WA for about a year. Prior to that, it was several years in the Great Lakes, mostly the North Channel. Many moons ago I ran boats in South Florida.
Our current boat is a 27 Skagit Orca XLC. Since we need to be at work on most Monday's, one of our current mission requirements is speed. IRENE gives us a safe ride, the comforts of home, and in most cases 3 NMPG from her Volvo Penta D4-260. We take many weekend trips, mostly to the San Juan and Gulf Islands. Our annual vacation trip last year was Desolation Sound and the Discovery Passage - this year we plan to visit the Broughtons. IRENE lives on a trailer near our home when she is not being used.
Why Trawler Forum? We joined because boating is our hobby and this forum is a wealth of knowledgable folks (I have been lurking) with apparently similar boating interests. Some of the other forums were too broad for our tastes, or brand specific. In the next few years, IRENE will move on and we will find a suitable pilothouse passagemaker to call home. We plan to retire shortly thereafter and be at-large...until too old to remain that way.
Thank you for the information and inspiration you have already shared. We appreciate the opportunity to participate here.
Jeff in Port Angeles, WA
We have been cruising from Port Angeles, WA for about a year. Prior to that, it was several years in the Great Lakes, mostly the North Channel. Many moons ago I ran boats in South Florida.
Our current boat is a 27 Skagit Orca XLC. Since we need to be at work on most Monday's, one of our current mission requirements is speed. IRENE gives us a safe ride, the comforts of home, and in most cases 3 NMPG from her Volvo Penta D4-260. We take many weekend trips, mostly to the San Juan and Gulf Islands. Our annual vacation trip last year was Desolation Sound and the Discovery Passage - this year we plan to visit the Broughtons. IRENE lives on a trailer near our home when she is not being used.
Why Trawler Forum? We joined because boating is our hobby and this forum is a wealth of knowledgable folks (I have been lurking) with apparently similar boating interests. Some of the other forums were too broad for our tastes, or brand specific. In the next few years, IRENE will move on and we will find a suitable pilothouse passagemaker to call home. We plan to retire shortly thereafter and be at-large...until too old to remain that way.
Thank you for the information and inspiration you have already shared. We appreciate the opportunity to participate here.
Jeff in Port Angeles, WA
