Sumner Strait, Heading east against the current, 16-AUG-2018 — I never come below when we’re underway. My days are spent in the cockpit watching the world go by, when we’re under power, or sailing, when there is wind. Fixing the autohelm for long periods doesn’t work on the inside passage, the straits are too narrow, and the water has too many floating obstacles.
Yesterday, we spent the morning in Lord’s Pocket. Jennifer has a new kelp-of-Alaska book, which she bought at the ranger station in Glacier Bay, that she wanted to identify kelp with. We launched our Portland Pudgy dinghy, Hilary Hoffmann, from the deck. We’ve been thinking, and I have been writing, about the changes in our perspective as we become practiced and the adventure turns into everyday life. Continue reading “Kelp, kelp, kelp, Monte Carlo and Decisions”