Mackenzie was recently surfing Craigslist and found a posting from a Port Angeles couple looking for companions to cruise the Inside Passage with them from their home to Ketchikan on their 60-foot boat. We were intrigued enough to schedule a meeting with them last week as we passed through Port Angeles on our new RV check-out tour, but labor pains related to their newly arriving grandchild interfered. We did, however, get to tour their boat while there, as we mentioned in the earlier post. (We mysteriously left out why.) We joined them last night at Tides Tavern in Gig Harbor to meet each other and discuss the possibility. They’ve been doing this for 15 years on their 37-foot boat, and last year bought this 60-foot boat in Alaska and brought it back to Port Angeles. He has his Coast Guard Skipper’s license, is a licensed diesel mechanic and a general jack-of-all-trades, and she’s a teacher. He’s retired from many careers, including an Alaskan fishing guide for many summers. Their boat, “Gold Rush”, is a 1981 fiberglass Enterprise. The plan is we’ll drive to Port Angeles next Sunday, August 2. We’ll go through Canadian customs at South Pender Island, stop for provisions on Salt Spring Island then head north. We plan to take 9 days to cruise the distance with about 5 hours of cruising daily. Along the way we’ll fish for salmon and halibut, stop at hot springs for a soak, kayak (we’re taking our kayaks with us), and drop crab and shrimp pots to catch our own dinner. We’ll make reservations to fly home from Ketchikan Thursday morning, August 13th. Greg and Terry are nice folks with adventurous spirits and mellow personalities. We told them we’ll want a bit of time most days to read a book, take a nap, have some “separate” time, and they completely agree. We’ll post entries periodically while on this trip, as they tell us we should be able to find internet a few times along the way. So, off to the next big adventure!
Mackenzie was recently surfing Craigslist and found a posting from a Port Angeles couple looking for companions to cruise the Inside Passage with them from their home to Ketchikan on their 60-foot boat. We were intrigued enough to schedule a meeting with them last week as we passed through Port Angeles on our new RV check-out tour, but labor pains related to their newly arriving grandchild interfered. We did, however, get to tour their boat while there, as we mentioned in the earlier post. (We mysteriously left out why.) We joined them last night at Tides Tavern in Gig Harbor to meet each other and discuss the possibility. They’ve been doing this for 15 years on their 37-foot boat, and last year bought this 60-foot boat in Alaska and brought it back to Port Angeles. He has his Coast Guard Skipper’s license, is a licensed diesel mechanic and a general jack-of-all-trades, and she’s a teacher. He’s retired from many careers, including an Alaskan fishing guide for many summers. Their boat, “Gold Rush”, is a 1981 fiberglass Enterprise. The plan is we’ll drive to Port Angeles next Sunday, August 2. We’ll go through Canadian customs at South Pender Island, stop for provisions on Salt Spring Island then head north. We plan to take 9 days to cruise the distance with about 5 hours of cruising daily. Along the way we’ll fish for salmon and halibut, stop at hot springs for a soak, kayak (we’re taking our kayaks with us), and drop crab and shrimp pots to catch our own dinner. We’ll make reservations to fly home from Ketchikan Thursday morning, August 13th. Greg and Terry are nice folks with adventurous spirits and mellow personalities. We told them we’ll want a bit of time most days to read a book, take a nap, have some “separate” time, and they completely agree. We’ll post entries periodically while on this trip, as they tell us we should be able to find internet a few times along the way. So, off to the next big adventure!
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