In August Kevin & I joined his brother Steve & wife Stephanie for a sailing cruise in the PWN where we learned how to operate a large sailboat. Here are the pictures from our time.
Because photos are easier to manage on Facebook, they are a little better documented. There are also pictures there not shown here. Feel free to check out my facebook photos of our trip.
Here’s a link to the San Juan Islands where we sailed. Our trip originated & ended in Bellingham Harbor.
- Outside the Sailing School Office waiting for our 1st test.
- Our Stuff
- Our boat is out there somewhere!
- Sherlene at the helm (and everyone is looking relatively calm!)
- Stephanie posing for the camera!
- Bellingham Bay looking back toward the harbor
- I’m having fun! Thought the flag on the stern made this a cool picture!
- Under sail, heeled over, headed for the horizon!
- Steve on watch
- Stephanie at the helm
- Chris our Captain, cooking dinner for us the first night.
- Cute picture of Stephanie
- Deep in conversation
- Salmon, Asperagus, salad & garlic bread for dinner. We ate well!
- Looking happy ain’t he! (There was a two drink max… honest!)
- Day 2
- The fog rolled in making the scene ethereal.
- Funny the bay on the other side of the island wasn’t foggy at all.
- The dinghy was our mode of tranport to shore (only ours had a motor).
- A madrone tree
- Lion’s Mane Jellyfish – they were all over the sound, this one was unfortunate enough to be stranded high & dry!
- Steve & Stephanie cooking dinner the 2nd night
- Boats night lights reflected in the bay
- Day 3
- Reid harbor – the anchorage where we spent our 2nd night
- A swing at the Island’s school
- The kids at the school had a little business they ran out of this chest.
- The school
- Playground
- You’d pick out a shirt and send in your payment with the enclosed coupon.
- Cool spiderweb
- Looking down on the stairs we just ascended
- Steve, dinghy captain this morning.
- Our boat – a 37′ Island Packet
- Our boat again.
- Me on watch
- Dolphins
- Coming into Friday Harbor on San Juan Island
- Friday Harbor – main walkway from the docks
- Far left is the building we took our 1st very necessary shower
- Ferry leaving the dock at Friday Harbor
- Day 4
- We woke to fog in Friday Harbor but we motored out anyway under radar.
- The sun was trying to break through.
- The fog finally lifted as we rounded Cattle Pass point. The bouy was full of cormorants.
- The south point of San Juan Island we saw lots of Orcas but none very close up.
- In San Juan Channel we saw lots of VERY large ships!
- We just stayed out of their way!
- The flag ceremony in Roche Harbor
- Steve & Stephanie
- A restaurant overlooking the harbor.
- Steve looked particularly happy!
- I can’t resist a sunset.
- The Phecal Phreak – the pumpout boat!
- The grocery store, post office, harbor master, a restaurant & a clothing boutique in this bldg.
- Love the refection!
- The grocery store door & stair up to the boutique overlooking a patio with tables
- Steve & Stephanie enjoying a morning joe
- Roche Harbor was originally famous for their Limestone kilns
- Roche Harbor Hotel De Haro
- Looking through the formal gardens towards the Harbor Master’s bldg.
- Love this picture!
- The chapel was originally Methodist… now Catholic.
- May have to get this one blown up for my wall!
- Unluck fish!
- Seagull feather floating on a kelp cluster.
- Another of Roche Harbor I’d like to frame!
- And another!
- Our boat again!
- Kevin on watch on Day 5
- Steve’s face collided with a winch handle, the handle won!
- Day 6
- Right outside our cafe where we breakfasted, were deer doing the same
- Steve & Chris consulting tide tables & plotting our route for the day.
- Kevin at the helm
- Our last night out we moored to a buoy in a quiet anchorage with 1 other boat.
- Kevin was rowing me around the bay in our dinghy
- Imagine this… a 2 story outhouse!
- An abandoned army vehicle.
- Oregon grape dressed in fall colors
- Kevin talked this little guy into posing!
- While we were on a hike, we found a geocache. Chris was sorting through all the stuff inside.
- Kevin writing on the log inside the cache before returning it to it’s place.
- Me, trying to unwrap kelp that had wrapped around our anchor chain during the night.
- Lots of little anchorages like this all over the San Juan’s
- Steve at the helm
- Heading back to Bellingham Bay & our harbor.
- Another great reflection picture.
- A fishing boat in the harbor.































































































































