and Willie Said....

Willie: Thanks for that report/review/laundry-meet.... 🙂 Very interesting and I really like the intergenerational option... just might have my UK family join up for this next year sometime... a great idea in the making. -Barry
 
I think I told the story before. The Adventuress belonged to a neighbor of ours when I was growing up in West Seattle. It, quite often, was anchored in front of our house during the summer. It belonged to Detrick Schmitz who, at the time, was Board Chairman and President of Washington Mutual Savings Bank. His family also donated Schmitz Park in West Seattle to the city (about a square mile of property by Schmitz Elementary School). After the death of his mother, Detrick donated three blocks of waterfront property to the city in his mother's name (Emma Schmitz Memorial Park). I told the people of the Adventuress this story and they were intrigued because the lost the history of the boat during that time.. Detrick always had a new Cadillac convertible which he purchased every year with a license plate number of "AAA001" at a time when there were no custom plates available, he must have known someone in Olympia. I hope you enjoy this story as much as I have telling it.

Bob
 
Thanks Bob for reminding us of that bit of lost history. Some of the people in our earlier times were real characters. Maybe they will say that about some of us in a 100 years. Thanks Bob.

Herb,
 
On the way over here Willie took a picture of the Lady Washington going away from us with full sales.

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And here is one of Rum Tum Tugger and a large cargo ship the "Astral Ace"

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I am sure she will have something to say about these in future blog posts....stay tuned.
 
While Willie's blog has been very active chronicling our Journeys in the Broughton's, I have been slack in posting updates here. We are now back in Saltspring Island and had some expensive repairs done.

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The story about the above photo can be found here.

http://andwilliesaid.blogspot.ca/
 
Willie:

Very nice writeup of your recent cruising travels. It was nice to see ZUMA as I had wondered what had happened to her... their R29 sold presumably and now they have that wonderful looking 'big' boat! What model is it ?

Did Herb and/or Patrick have a spare shear pin on hand or was it mailed in from somewhere else ?

You do take excellent photographs... 😉

We were out between Edmonds and Kingston the other day and to my surprise 😱 a very large whale surfaced alongside us (scared the dickens out of me) and blew a ton of water all over us. Did not have time to take a photo and 1st mate simply would not believe me without one as she was resting in the V-berth. The whale surfaced 5 more times before disappearing down into 100s of feet of water. I thought whales traveled in groups so I turned to port and got the hell out of there. What would have Herb done in this situation I wonder ? Ask him for advice please... 😱
 
Barry - you probably saw a Humpback. Did it have a dorsal fin? We were cruising between Gig Harbor and Tacoma a few weeks ago and saw one cruising NW towards Colvos Passage. Vicki got a photos of it diving just below a small fishing boat. She sent the to Orca Network and they confirmed it was a humpback. More than one had been reported around the region.

Yesterday we were on a low flying float plane, flying from Victoria to Ganges. Heading north over Haro Strait and we saw one breach ten times, heading south. Too long for an Orca, with no white saddle. There were no whale watching boats in sight - they were probably all out looking for J,K, & L pods. Haven't checked Orca Network yet to see if anyone reported it or got photos.

In any case, they're around.

Cheers,

Bruce
 
Yes... it was definitely a humpback. It amazes me how graceful these large mammals swim. They hardly break water ripples as they surface and then blow and slide back into the water.

No dorsal fin for sure.... it was a humpback. 🙂
 
baz":rrnuvexr said:
Yes... it was definitely a humpback. It amazes me how graceful these large mammals swim. They hardly break water ripples as they surface and then blow and slide back into the water.

No dorsal fin for sure.... it was a humpback. 🙂
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Humpbacks have dorsal fins, relatively small for their size but prominent, about 2/3rd of the way back. Lots of images on google. Gray whales don't have dorsal fins. They have a series of spinal bumps just forward of their flukes. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's a little late for Grays. In the spring they hang out quite in your area, between the river and Saratoga Passage, especially. We've seen them as late Lot's of ghost shrimp in the shallows. They'll even go up the Snohomish a bit if there are Transient Killer Whales in the area.

cheers,

Bruce
 
We'll be looking forward to your posts next year, thanks for taking us along with you via "and Willie said". We are hoping for some inviting days for late fall and winter cruising here in South Sound. Be sure to let us know if you cruise our way in the spring!

Lois and Dan Cheney
Hoku Kai
www.bioaquatics.com/hokukai
 
Dauntless here:
Congrats on the new watermaker! We are so grateful to have one and found it an essential system last year when we were four weeks in the Broughtons. The Canadian health department were advising that marina water on the islands was not potable. We did need a change of our 3-year old filters en route (and didn't have replacements) but managed to clean them off a couple of times and that got us through. An extra toothbrush sure came in handy! We now have new filters...and spares.
See you on the water.
Kathy
 
I'm glad you're back in the great Northwest. Looking forward to seeing you out there.
 
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