Time to go cruising

I am fortunate enough to be able to take time off work to go cruising for a couple months this summer.  I will be posting some information about our trip on this page about some updates, but the details will be posted on my Sailblogs page here:
http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sombradeluna/

Sunshine today!

Stuff for sale

3 CNG tanks  - $150 each or make an offer
I replaced my CNG cookstove with propane so I have 4 'scuba tank size' tanks for CNG. (Sorry I never learned what size they were officially)

gas fuel tank from dinghy

Toliva Shoals Race - 2013

Yesterday I crewed for Maranatha, a Ranger 33 in the annual Toliva Shoals Race out of Olympia.  It was a chilly day, the winds were light, and they shortened the course due to the light winds, but it was a beautiful, mostly sunny day on the water.

On board were the skipper, Joel, myself, Sandy, Webb, Matt, and John; we had a lot of fun and all that tacking in Dana Passage kept us warm...............

Photos are posted here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/114745983068697533979/February92013

Sombra de Luna

I think I'll keep this blog for those times when I do sail with others - what fun that is!  So I have created another blog for my new boat.  The current name is officially Moonshadow but I plan to rename her next spring to Sombra de Luna.  Even though I am only changing the language, Sombra de Luna is Spanish for Moonshadow, I'll probably still do the naming ceremony. No sense getting on the wrong side of any wind or sea gods is there?  Since there are 3 other Moonshadows in Olympia, I just wanted something more unique.  So here is the link to another site that I will start posting some information on soon.

http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sombradeluna/

Cheers!

Still sailing on others boats

Okay, so I am not boatless anymore but I still like to sail on other people's boats.  This summer I did several of the South Sound Sailing Society's Wednesday night races on Maranatha, a Ranger 33.  But the highlight of the summer racing was on Mako, a Star 22 with Susan Willis.  It was a beautiful day in July and we actually had wind.  We had a blast and nothing broke on the boat.  THANKS Susan.

Here are just a few of the photos:  (the photographers were taking a lot of photos)

SOLD - Dinghy for sale - Walker Bay RIB

I went from boatless to two boats; Moonshadow came with a large dinghy.  However, one of them, the dinghy is just too big for me and one other person to handle and it takes up the whole foredeck if stored up there.  So I am going to sell the dinghy and get one more manageable.  I really wish it were smaller; it looks like a great dinghy.  And I didn't even know Walker Bay made inflatables........

Here's some info.
10 foot 2 inch Walker Bay Genesis RIB - Genesis Lite
2007 in good shape; weighs about 126 lbs; rated to have a 10-15 HP outboard
Comes with 2 wood oars and a 5 gallon gas tank.

Asking $1500 OBO; they are over $3000 new.

If you are interested, give me a call.  (I assume you'll be someone I already know if you are looking at this page so I am not posting my phone number here.)

CHEERS!

Barbara

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.