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Category: Features
Cruising Northwest’s Feature Stories
Captain Last Minute’s Holiday Gift Guide
Really? You haven’t started your holiday shopping yet? let us help you out. First of all, have a look at this video from San Juan Canvas showcasing some really cool products made from recycled sails and some made from brand new canvas material. Books Here are some ideas from some local Northwest folks… and a […]
Cypress Island’s Best Hike – Eagle Cliff
Where the skiff meets the beach the sound of hundreds, if not thousands of small-flat weathered rocks clatter and scrape against each other as if in protest of having to move out of the way. I feel the same protest from under my Xtra-Tuf boots as I hop out of the boat and onto Pelican […]
The New Normal?
What’s New on the David B
Sticking to it- When we bought the David B in 1998, we knew that we’d be battling a lot of uncertainty. First we needed to rebuild the boat, a project which we initially thought would take two years, but instead took eight. Then we needed to learn how to run our business, get people’s attention, […]
Ready for Opening Day 2014?
Are you ready for Opening Day???
2014 Seattle Boat Show starts Friday, January 24th
Well, my friends, the time has come, raise the roof and have some fun… Throw away the work to be done, Let the music play on (play on, play on). Everybody sing, everybody dance. Lose yourself in wild romance… We’re going to The Boat Show! (thank you Lionel Richie) 2014’s version of… The Boat […]
Anticipation
We are settled down for the evening in Ganges, Kanaka Wharf, Salt Spring Island. It was a cloudy and on and off rainy day but no wind to speak of for most of the day. Our trip over from Sidney was a pleasant one and Al drove from the fly bridge the entire trip while […]
Finego Fall Travels 2013
We are Kathy & Al Felker and live aboard our boat, Finego, in La Conner, WA. I have a store in La Conner, CleverKathy Designs Embroidery and do all types of embroidery and heat press garments for businesses, events, individuals and boaters. Al is a marine electronics expert and works on all types of boats […]
The Sextant
A “Sea Story” by Charles Goodman The “good old days” were not, in all ways, as good as we like to remember. My story begins a generation ago in the summer of 1983, B.G.P.S. (Before Global Positioning Systems), in the days when offshore navigation involved the use of a sextant, short wave radio, chronometer, navigation […]