Yesterday Jim took a great picture of the boat next to us with a bunch of friends aboard.
He shared it with the boat next to us.
They were appreciative.
Next morning we awoke, and Dave said, ”What is with the bread on the deck? I’m surprised the birds didn’t get it!”. Utterly conf…
After Orson’s workout with the guys, Melissa whipped up pancakes and sausage for breakfast. Orson is our trainer in Punta Mita, who does video training when we are in Seattle.
We continued to work another Hunt-a-Killer game Death at the Winery.
The boys then worked on changing th…
Breakfast was frittata with ham, onions, cheese, sour cream and salsa.
Underway was gorgeous through the islands and mountains.
Made our way to Sullivan Cove Marina. So cute!
Dinner was Captain Dave’s favorite – Burgers! Even if the buns turned out to be sadly lacking.…
In the morning we watched another boat pull up a crab trap right from the dock and pull Dungeness out. What?! Ok, maybe we can catch a crab here! Melissa tried to convince the boys to set both prawn and crab traps. But after working on the autopilot they were like “nah”.
For lunch…
We got up and the boys did their workout with Orson while Melissa fixed egg cups for breakfast.
We decided to stay on the dock while the guys diagnosed the auto pilot failure. Jim found that the motor had come loose from the hydraulic controls. The screws were sitting on the floor of the lo…
We awoke to dead house batteries. Again. Dave had to do the jump start with the screw driver trick again to get the house batteries charging after he started the engines. As we needed to charge the batteries, we took off early for Blind Bay Marina. We had to go slow to time the rapids just right…
After a rough night, we decide to depart and head back to Squirrel Cove. That means getting loose from the stern tie. You would think that would be as simple as just pulling the rope through the bolt assembly on shore. Alas. The rope got all twisted up and wouldn’t pull free. So Jim gets in the…
We headed to Melanie Cove today visiting a gorgeous waterfall along the way.
The big adventure was a stern tie. Melissa is not crazy about stern tie because we’ve often had trouble with dragging anchor in this stern tie configuration.
We arrived in the Melanie Cove, and Melissa and J…
Breakfast was quiche. Melissa did the “use the wine bottle as rolling pin” trick.
After breakfast we headed to squirrel cove.
We were here in 2008 with John and Cindy. John had to bury some old crab bait that had gone bad. (https://svapsaras.com/entries/2008-canada/…
We awoke to completely dead house batteries. In theory, the combiner that charges both the house batteries and the engine starter batteries protect the engine starter batteries. But until the engines start we are holding our breath hoping the combiner worked right. And indeed, the engines start r…
The generator over-sped again this morning. Melissa caught it because blower on the oven sped up. She shut it down within seconds. We finished up cooking breakfast. Risotto cakes with poached eggs and hollandaise with roasted asparagus. Yumo. After breakfast the guys started working on diagnos…
We went to do the laundry while we were still on the dock and realized that the generator overrun had damaged the washing machine too. Sigh.
Margaret and Melissa headed off to find the marina office to buy loonies to run the washer and dryers ashore. Melissa thought the office had shorted us, …
Before we depart Ganges, we need to load up on wine. We love the boxed variety as it stores so well.
We decided to head over to Van Isle Marina. It’s on Vancouver Island. Melissa needed to meet up with Leta to get some Mexican HOA papers signed. She had planned to take the ferry from Gan…
Melissa awoke with some energy and cooked up a breakfast casserole out of gluten free bread, sausage, eggs, and cheese.
The water maker being broken is a pain. It will affect where we can go as much of the Gulf and Broughton islands are short on water. So the boys get determined to fix it s…
We got underway to Ganges this morning. While underway, the generator went into run away and it overran. Which means it over-voltaged. That in turn blew out the water maker and the cook top.
That’s not good. We find ourselves pondering why. And will it happen again? And what else did it …
We continued to hang at Saturna Island. We gave crabbing a shot. The guys managed to catch three small ones but not big enough to keep.
We did make a bit of water here – if for no other reason than to make sure the water maker is operational.
While cooking Jim complains about Mel…
Bedwell Harbor is one of our favorites, but this boat can be noisy when there is even a small amount of waves. It was a bit loud due to the winds blowing into the bay. We knew the wind was going to blow a bit for the next few days, so we headed to Saturna Island to anchor there for a couple of nig…
For breakfast Jim made omelets and we used up the last bits of remaining citrus fruits before we have to declare to Canadian Customs.
We headed to Bedwell Harbor. Smooth as glass across the straights of Juan De Fuca. Checkin was a snap. No inspection, but that is because we emptied the boa…
Jim and Margaret dropped off a bunch of groceries last night. Dave was to pick them up today when he was making the rounds on a bunch of errands. A stop to pick up the mail, a stop to pick up Jim and Margaret, a stop to pick up containers at the Container Store, and finally a stop to pick up the o…
Jim and Dave have been working to fix some electrical issues before we depart.
First the problem with a previous owner moving the fridge and freezer to the inverter side without moving the associated neutrals. They thought it would be a hard job. But nope. They found the neutrals and moved the…