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Choosing, using (sailing, cruising) maintaining, repairing, being rescued, selling five boats: three sail (Simrishamn 1, Simrishamn 2, Discovery) and two power (Gumption, Hugin)
We were planning on leaving Deer Harbor in our pocket trawler, Gumption, on Friday, July 16, 2004 to meet the Orcas Island Yacht Club group in Telegraphic Harbor on Thetis Island, one of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, on our way north to Desolation Sound, on the other side of the Straight of Georgia, … Read more Gumption in Desolation Sound
Stuart Island, one of the San Juan islands in Washington, lies about ten miles northwest of Deer Harbor on Orcas Island. Stuart has two good harbors, Prevost on the northeast side, protected by Satellite Island, and Reid Harbor, in the center of Stuart, its entrance to the southeast. The Stuart Island Marine State Park provides … Read more Dragging Anchor in Reid Harbor
Eleven-acre Yellow Island lies south of Spring Point on southwest Orcas Island and west of Crane Island. In 1979 The Nature Conservancy acquired the island and administers it as a kind of laboratory to study the invasion of grassland by woody plants and how to resist or reverse it. So, for instance, the group does … Read more May Flowers on Yellow Island