Sailing Big Sky

Nice ten day voyage with guest crew Carl P from Missoula, MT from San Francisco Bay to Dana Point via Channel Islands.

Had intended to go easy on ourselves and set the hook in Half Moon Bay Oct 13, first night out of the SF Bay. Best laid...

We've been in San Francisco Bay for a couple weeks working on the boat. Amy took advantage of an easy flight back to Seattle to spend her birthday weekend with her daughters at Lake Chelan.
Big projects were installing a new genoa furler and rebuilding...

We arrived at the Golden Gate the morning of Sept 26 to the usual cool sea layer. After a brief tie up on a Sausalito YC buoy to get offshore gear sorted and make a plan we headed to Richmond YC for a night at their retro club on the NE corner of the Bay....

Amy, Alex, Erdo and Pete departed late morning Sept 21 for Neah Bay to wait out a weather window. By the time we got there, the window was open and we motor sailed thru. Wind began to develop half way down WA coast and offered a nice 15 knts to fly our new...

After three long years of traveling back and forth from Montana with the last six months living in our van, we have completed countless projects on Big Sky. Today she is once again in her element, the waters of the Pacific.

Work continues for a...

We’re getting close to crossing off the final must-do items from the re-fit list, including our new sails arriving from the Ballard Sails loft in Seattle: staysail and spinnaker with our logo for our charter business front and center!

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