We raised the sails on Polar Mist yesterday for the first time after almost a year of boat yards and boat projects! John, Karen and I left the slip at Salmon Bay yesterday morning, headed out the Ballard Locks, and found a nice northerly blowing in Puget Sound. We had a great sail south, took a detour through Elliot Bay to look at the Seattle skyline, managed not to run aground at Blake Island (we somehow had the depth sounder on meters instead of feet, which explains why nothing crunched when we hit "5" while drawing 9 feet), and then motored inside Bainbridge Island to arrive in Poulsbo in the pitch-black darkness of standard time at 6 PM).

We're finding a few glitches in the new systems, but today's breakfast of Viking Doughnuts and apple fritters more than makes up for it! We'll be headed out later today--it's great to have the boat working and being back out on the water!

Humbly submitted,

Capt. Rick