Six weeks later than last year, we finally got out for a weekend in the boat. Admittedly, last year was early, but it’s been 2 months since my last race crewing for Robert, so I’ve been feeling a little like a caged animal.
It’s not that we haven’t prepared for it; we’ve installed a Wallas paraffin oil heater as well as mounting a larger/longer anchor roller to accommodate the 10kg Rocna anchor we picked up during last season. I got a local stainless steel fabricator to make me an arch (external of the canvas cockpit enclosure) to mount my antennae, and Lisa has sewed up great binnacle cover out of black sunbrella.
Anyway, we had planned to attend the first LPS cruise of the season (last week of April), but a windy, bumpy Georgia Strait suggested otherwise. So we puttered on the boat, had lunch, and returned home instead.
So all of us couldn’t wait to head over to Port Browning for the May long weekend. We had an uneventful trip over, via Georgeson Passage. There were quiet a few boats already in, include 3 vessels from the Bellingham Squadron -it was great to meet up with them. Friday night was nice, but cool, so we elected to wait until Sat. night for the movie.
Saturday started out as a beautiful morning -sunny and warm. Elsa and I rowed out around the point to set our crab trap, then I hoisted her up the mast to attach the flag halyard that I forgot to run when putting the mast up. A local prawn boat came in, so we picked up a pound of fresh prawn to have as part of our main course for the Sat. night Appetizer-Potluck, but by the early afternoon dark clouds started settling in. Just as we were about to start the Pot Luck up on the field, the clouds opened up. We quickly got another tent out, and everyone got as cozy as we could and managed to stay (mostly) dry. The rain did stop after about an hour & a half, but there was a cold wetness that took care of any thoughts about having the movie that night.
All throughout the weekend, anyone with traps were loading their catches into some in water holding tanks that some of the members have, so by Sunday afternoon, we had a sizeable feed of crab for everyone. We set up some tables on the end of the wharf, in the lee of Dave & Sandie’s ‘Bayfield’. Jacquie counted 52 people and 15 LPS + 3 BPS boats. It was another GREAT cruise planned out by our cruisemaster’s Jeff & Leanne.
Sunday afternoon blew pretty good, and the forcast for Monday was similar to worse, so with our girls having dance classes in the early afternoon, our best choice was to head off early Monday morning. Originally I was thinking departing around 0800, but we ended up heading out around 0715. The trip back was comfortable for motoring back home -light/increasing winds, but only 1-2 foot chop at that point. The worse was the slop off the head Point Roberts. So we headed into our slip, gave BoB a good cleaning and headed home to mow the lawn. More photos
It’s not that we haven’t prepared for it; we’ve installed a Wallas paraffin oil heater as well as mounting a larger/longer anchor roller to accommodate the 10kg Rocna anchor we picked up during last season. I got a local stainless steel fabricator to make me an arch (external of the canvas cockpit enclosure) to mount my antennae, and Lisa has sewed up great binnacle cover out of black sunbrella.
Anyway, we had planned to attend the first LPS cruise of the season (last week of April), but a windy, bumpy Georgia Strait suggested otherwise. So we puttered on the boat, had lunch, and returned home instead.
So all of us couldn’t wait to head over to Port Browning for the May long weekend. We had an uneventful trip over, via Georgeson Passage. There were quiet a few boats already in, include 3 vessels from the Bellingham Squadron -it was great to meet up with them. Friday night was nice, but cool, so we elected to wait until Sat. night for the movie.
Saturday started out as a beautiful morning -sunny and warm. Elsa and I rowed out around the point to set our crab trap, then I hoisted her up the mast to attach the flag halyard that I forgot to run when putting the mast up. A local prawn boat came in, so we picked up a pound of fresh prawn to have as part of our main course for the Sat. night Appetizer-Potluck, but by the early afternoon dark clouds started settling in. Just as we were about to start the Pot Luck up on the field, the clouds opened up. We quickly got another tent out, and everyone got as cozy as we could and managed to stay (mostly) dry. The rain did stop after about an hour & a half, but there was a cold wetness that took care of any thoughts about having the movie that night.
All throughout the weekend, anyone with traps were loading their catches into some in water holding tanks that some of the members have, so by Sunday afternoon, we had a sizeable feed of crab for everyone. We set up some tables on the end of the wharf, in the lee of Dave & Sandie’s ‘Bayfield’. Jacquie counted 52 people and 15 LPS + 3 BPS boats. It was another GREAT cruise planned out by our cruisemaster’s Jeff & Leanne.
Sunday afternoon blew pretty good, and the forcast for Monday was similar to worse, so with our girls having dance classes in the early afternoon, our best choice was to head off early Monday morning. Originally I was thinking departing around 0800, but we ended up heading out around 0715. The trip back was comfortable for motoring back home -light/increasing winds, but only 1-2 foot chop at that point. The worse was the slop off the head Point Roberts. So we headed into our slip, gave BoB a good cleaning and headed home to mow the lawn. More photos