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I flew in a float plane up part of the inside passage in 1987 and you could see the plumes from BC pulp mills flowing into the water and then fanning out into mile long plumes.

The Tacoma smell was not from the Asarco smelter, but from the pulp mills on the tide flats. The smelter was still running in the mid 1980s and the arsenic in the air around the smelter made your...

Spent my time ashore in troll season of '81 staying in low rent house in Toledo, Oregon. It was right above the GP pulp mill and the air stunk. No one complained about the pollution because Georgia...

Couldn't find the feather boa; had to use a cat:

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I am intrigued with the idea that the dagger boards are also legs for drying out at low tide

Seems to be a very well thought out boat

"Just sayin'"

Lawsuit between neighbors are almost always about more than appears on the court pleadings. And they often go to trial because the neighbors hate each other.

My daughter sat on the jury in a...

Salish Sea: Jervis Inlet BC soundings in meters

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Faster, lighter and cheaper:

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I am amused with chiropractors insisting on the title of doctor. I am amused by the MDs use the title when it has nothing to do with the situation, the docs who sign letters to the editor (or to...

Of course I saw him 30 years later, after some serious health issues. No wonder he was not as energetic on stage

We saw Lightfoot in concert about 9 years ago. Musically a great show, but not much interaction with the audience or comments between the songs. I got the sense that he was tired and had enough...

The border is now fully opened. No need for anything relating to Covid. No tests before coming to the border, no tests at the border, and no random tests after you cross into Canada.

Sorry to hear that. Hope it doesn't require surgery

That's true. I suspect that stabilizer fins on the hull also cost fuel. With paravanes you only deploy them when you need them

I am a huge fan of poles and paravane stabilizers. They work, they are simple compared to hydraulic fin stabilizers, and they are only in the water when needed.

Most excellent

A smaller conversion of a salmon troller:

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but not by the time the camera is making its way up yer backside

Better yet, my historian cousin wrote an article about the trip, which involved a mutiny

http://www.lawesterners.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bi_285_v1.pdf

No shyte, eh?

More my speed. Radiant Star has been moored at Skyline Marina in Anacortes for several years; she doesn't seem to be getting a lot of use.

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Came from Scotland around the Horn, just like...

Yup with tedious predictability the usual suspects are here

Good to hear. I heard rumblings from some people and Jonathan Raban was prickly in person.

I have enjoyed his books.

I have read the book, based on your earlier suggestion. I just requested it from the library to re-read. Maybe I can find the answer.

I liked Neil DeGrasse Tyson's image that there is always a...

Next week, we will have the highest predicted tide in Puget Sound for 2023 (13.1 feet). Interestingly, the low tide that day will not be lowest tide of the year. The lowest tide of the year will...

I don't consider drinking alcohol part of my identity. I certainly don't judge the character or manliness of someone based on whether he drinks alcohol or not

Of course, it's not surprising that a millionaire owns a 60 foot schooner--- who else could afford it?

Wilhelm Hester was another photographer in the early days, active from 1893 to 1906. He took some photographs of the logging industries and also the masters and crews of sailing vessels

Timber...

He was taking photographs in the early days, when there were still very large trees in Washington.

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Very nice

I moved my Bobcat to and from the water on a dolly I built with wheelbarrow tires. A similar dolly would work here, perhaps with bigger balloon tires. You could use a hand crank winch or a block...

The house behind me was bought in 1943 by a young couple for $5,500. When I moved in in 1987, they were an old couple, kids long grown. He died at some point; she stayed in the house until she was...

View of a younger generation: In December 1980, I saw some kids--preteens-- looking at the headlines about John Lennon's murder. "Who are the Beatles?" one asked. "That's Paul McCartney's band...

The Stones can play as long as they are able to play. No problem with that. People will pay big money to see them. Certain musicians are playing in their 90's I will see Buddy Guy, 86, next time...

Gee, a band that split up more than 50 years ago or a band of men 75 plus years old going through their hits from decades past for an equally old audience...

Beau's plan assumes McCarthy has a backbone and is trustworthy. He has shown himself to be a spineless weasel

Gallagher is doing his best: it's hard to make chicken salad out of chicken sh!t

The GOP's incompetence and extremism are on full display

And halibut schooners

Local Scandahoovian humor



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_6I50oXAVM

Looks as if McCarthy will lose....

I knew a troller that lost its propeller offshore. It seems a boatyard failed to put a locknut on the shaft. A fellow fisherman towed the disabled boat to shore.

Thanks for posting this. It's a very different type of cruising than I am used to. No tides, no currents and no need for charts.

Blake Island in Puget Sound was owned by a millionaire in the...

There was a herd in NW Oregon between Olney and Jewell that we would see on our annual April spring motorcycle ride.

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Happy BD young man

Happy Bday

Recently I watched the Hustler and followed it up with the Color of Money

Both stand the test of time.

It's fun to watch Paul Newman revisit the role of Fast Eddie twenty five years later.

Everett, Washington today:

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