Author: Edwin Voskamp

We took on diesel and water (we haven’t gotten to swapping out the water maker filter), and are off! Today another 15 to 25 knots True Wind Speed adventure, going straight up Puget Sound and...

We had someone check out the stove and all’s well. In our power systems work we had the Integrel main battery switch replaced with Integrel’s latest and looked at how to put in another Skylla...

After two days of sailing, 14, 15 hours of which in gale conditions, we made it to Shilshole marina. The wind, in the marina was still at 15 knots, away from the dock. Fortunately our friends Shawn...

I love sailing at night. I love sailing in high winds. Sailing in Puget Sound at night in a gale? The thing about Puget Sound is there are logs floating in it, sometimes even shipping containers,...

We set off, rounded the top of Marrowstone Island and ran into 20-30 knots of wind on the nose, and the tidal current of Puget Sound emptying into the ocean. We were making 3 knots of headway on one...

We woke up, checked the anchor had held (it did), how the house bank did after a night with AC running in reverse to heat us, and cooking dinner and breakfast in the electric steam oven), did some...

We got into Marrowstone Island’s approach, a narrow, shallow puzzle path and got in. We found a 5 foot deep sandbank that wasn’t there before in what was supposed to be 30’ feet of water by...

The 15-25 knots of wind from the SW moving to 20-30 from the West, prompting a small craft gale warning, did not materialize. Until it did! We were motor sailing SE with full main sail and jib up,...

I live sailing through the San Juan islands. It’s just unbelievably pretty!

Irene’s having fun: you can tell she’s smiling!