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The Resourceful Sailor’s Whale Tales

Thank you Latitude 38! This is my first hard copy publication with them (but it’s online too) and appears in the November 2023 issue. Special props to Monica and John for looking out for The Resourceful Sailor. The Resourceful Sailor’s Whale Tales appears in the Sightings section of the mag and highlights some whale encounters I had on my journey down the West Coast in Sampaguita, a Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20, this… Read More

Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, The Resourceful Sailor Series, ThreeSheets, Wildlife Tags: bioluminescent, breach, California, grey whale, humpback, killer whale, Latitude 38, Lectronic Latitude, offshore, orca, sailing, San Diego, San Francisco, tale, whale

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