Boatless Barbara isn't boatless anymore

Joel and I brought the boat down from Bellingham last weekend.  That was my first trip through the Swinomish Channel and when we saw -0.1 on the depth sounder we were sure glad that we didn't touch bottom.....  We had great weather (okay, so another 30 degrees warmer would have been even better), partly cloudy, partly sunny, very little rain.  We only did a little bit of sailing due to either lack of wind or it was from the wrong direction and since the goal for the weekend was to get to Olympia, we just kept motoring.

We arrived at the Swantown Marina around 2:30 pm on Monday, and Mary C. came to greet us at the pump out station.  Then we motored over to the new slip, where Dave K, Erik N. and Eric F. met us.

A great weekend of boating and now the fun begins ----- boat projects!

Okay, so I know I need to change this website sometime, but I am still trying to decide if I want to change the boat name, and may wait until I pick a new name and create a blog for that.

Boatless Barbara - only for another 10 days

So you may have been wondering (or maybe not....) what I have been up to lately.  Well, I haven't been sailing, but I have been looking at sailboats to buy, and............. I found a Morgan 384 in Bellingham that I had surveyed last Friday.  Her name is Moonshadow. (I know I can't get Cat Stevens out of my head.) She is a good solid boat and I am excited about bringing her down to Olympia later this month.  I also have lots of plans for boat projects.  Here are a few of the 'before' photos.