Table of Contents

2016

December 3-4th, Purchase and Delivery

December 18th, Splash

December 23rd, Step Mast

December 26th, First Sail

December 29th, A Name

2017

February 4th

February 17th

March 11th

March 19th

March 26th

March 27th

April 1st, Engine Dead

April 8th, Variable Fun With a Broach

April 15th, East End a Bad Idea

April 18th, First SYSCO as a Owner/Skipper

April 22nd, Row Row Row Your Sailboat

April 25th

April 29th, Nerds on Water

April 30th

May 5th, Friends, Sunset and Breeze

May 15th, To the Repair!

May 26th, Repaired!

May 27th, Anchor Blunder and Drill Bits

June 2nd, R2AK

June 25th, R2AK Delivery

July 22nd, Splash

July 25th, SYSCO Twilight #2

July 29th, To the East!

August 1st, Practice

August 8th, SYSCO Twilight #3

August 15th, SYSCO Twilight #4

August 22nd, SYSCO Twilight #5

2018

May, Oregon Offshore

May, Swiftsure

October, Sail on Sunday

2019

April

September 13th

September 14th

October (14th?)

2020

February 11th

February 15th

February 23rd

March 2nd

July 11th(?)

July 15

August 1st

August 9th

September 3rd - 6th

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Narrative (from FB)

I have always enjoyed trips down this leg of the mighty Columbia River. The first time I did this was in 2009 aboard Messenger, a Pearson 39 as part of an early learning journey about river navigation and sailing just outside the bar (I also shared that trip with the owner of Willamette Week, which led to a web development deal with them and OpenSourcery at the time). I have also traveled this leg a couple times with Gary Bruner , as part of deliveries of Shamrock in preparation for offshore races such as the Bridge to Bridge and Oregon Offshore. This trip we had a few days so we took our time and hoisted sail (all my previous trips were mostly under engine power). The boat was having bottom paint done at Schooner Creek – we left right from their dock to a well timed opening of the railroad swing bridge.

Day 3 was a lot to take in including motoring through what seemed like every bird on the planet hanging out on the water to the North of buoy 14. We also entered the Ilwaco Channel near sunset which had a trail of speeding motorboats and commercial fishing boats backed up behind us as they came in from fishing (our little 6HP can only push us so fast).

September 6th

September 20th

October 10th

October (?)

October 24th

November 2nd

November 22rd

December 23rd

2021

January 5th

January 11th

January 17th

January 23rd

January 24th