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48° North – Sampaguita’s Shakedown Around Vancouver Island

Thank you to Joe Cline and the sailing magazine, 48° North, for publishing A Flicka 20’s Pacific Odyssey, Sampaguita‘s Shakedown Around Vancouver Island, in their July 2025 issue. It’s a suss of some takeaways while working out the kinks before I “turned left” in 2023 and headed south to Mexico and the Marquesas. You can set up a subscription for 48° North HERE, or get a fresh, free copy at participating venues…. Read More

Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Salish Sea, Voyage 2024 Tags: 48 North, bull harbor, Canada, cormorant island, cruise, Flicka 20, hotsprings cove, Pacific Seacraft, port renfrew, port townsend, sailboat, sailing, Sampaguita, shakedown, Vancouver Island

Rounding Cape Scott…and more Walde Sailing.

There is another YouTube video from Walde Sailing. Click the link for more about Tiffany and Lyndon’s story. They in their Niagara 35, and me in my Flicka 20, tag-teamed down the West Coast of Vancouver Island for 11 days in June 2018. They are very nice and generous people, and I enjoyed their company. The Walde’s documentation of the trip is superior to my own, with their digital movie camera and… Read More

Category: Overnight Trips, Vancouver Island 2018 Tags: 2018, adventure, anchoring, bull harbor, Canada, cape scott, dinghy, Flicka 20, forward inlet, inflatable kayak, june, kains island, life raft, light, lighthouse, maritime, motor, nahwitti bar, niagara 35, north harbor, northwest, outboard, Park, quatsino sound, queen charlotte sound, red, robson, rock, sailboat, Sampaguita, scott channel, sea, sea otter cove, small boat, tow, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Walde Sailing, west coast, whale, winter harbor