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Sampaguita Gets West Coast Cool

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Overnight Trips, The Salish Sea Tags: adventure, Anchor, british columbia, Canada, Clayoquot Sound, CQR, Dreamspeaker Guide, Flicka 20 sailboat, hot springs cove, Marine Provincial Park, pacific northwest, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Seacraft, sailboats, sailing off the anchor, Sampaguita, sea otter, small boat, Vancouver Island, west coast, workboats

The Stern-Tie Setup

A version of this article was first published on the July/Aug 2019 issue of Small Craft Advisor Magazine. This is a popular post. It must have some value. Please consider a donation to help keep it available for reference and future consumption. Thank you. PayPal or Zelle: wheelersf@hotmail.com “How do you run a stern-tie setup when you have limited working and storage space on board?” This is one of the questions I asked… Read More

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Marlinspike, Overnight Trips, The Resourceful Sailor Series, ThreeSheets Tags: anchor etiquette, anchorage, anchoring, Flicka 20, Lectronic Latitude, Marine Provincial Park, pacific northwest, Pacific Seacraft, Polypropylene, rope spool, Sampaguita, small boat, small craft advisor, State Park, Stern Tie, stowage

The Meaning of May

I would like to thank Joe Cline, Andy Cross, and all the crew at 48° North for choosing and publishing my poem about the meaning of May. It appears in the Lifestyle section of their online version, dated May 14, 2020. You can view it by clicking this link: 48north.com 48° North is a long time Pacific Northwest sailing magazine, which in 2018 became part of The Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend, WA. Even… Read More

Category: Culture, June on the Hook 2017, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Northwest Passage, Vancouver Island 2018 Tags: 48 North, Anchor, Astoria, boating season, Breskell, Canada, Flicka 20, Image, Inside Passage, Northwest Maritime Center, Northwest Passage, pacific northwest, Pacific Seacraft, Poem, port angeles, port townsend, sailboat, sailing magazine, Sampaguita, Stay Gold, Swiftsure, Thankful, The Meaning of May, three sheets northwest, Vancouver Island

S/V CARLYN

This is the S/V CARLYN docked at Shilshole Bay Marina in Seattle. I am working on this boat for the spring of 2019 as Mate/Nautical Educator for Salish Sea Expeditions, a boat-based, scientific inquiry forum for youths. SHIP SPECIFICATIONS Displacement: 42,000lbs Construction: Wood-strip plank with epoxy overlay; built 1995 by Scarano Boat Building; Albany, NY Length Overall (LOA): 62ft Length at Waterline (LWL): 52ft Sail Area: 1,450 sq ft. Auxiliary Engine: 75 horsepower… Read More

Category: Culture, The Dock Life Tags: Albany, Carlyn, pacific northwest, puget sound, salish sea, Salish Sea Expeditions, san juan islands, Scarano Boat Building, seattle, Shilshole Bay Marina, Westerbeke, Yawl

The Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20

If you are interested in more information about the Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20 sailboat beyond what this blog has to offer, check out the following links. There are some great pictures, specs, reviews, articles, newsletters and more. http://www.flicka20.com Tom Davison and Dennis Pratt have published a newsletter called Flicka Friends since 1995 that provides a plethora of information about Flickas and their travels. http://www.flicka20.com/flicka-newsletters Tom was gracious enough to reproduce my “June on the Hook 2017… Read More

Category: Gear & Maintenance, June on the Hook 2017, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, Vancouver Island 2018 Tags: 20, anchoring, blue water, bruce bingham, circumnavigation, designer, Fan site, flicka, full keel, john vigor, june 2017, magazine, Newsletter, pacific northwest, Pacific Seacraft, sailboat, sailing, salish sea, Sampaguita, small craft advisor, tom davison