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June 15, 2018

Cape Caution and the Central Coast
With Southeast gale force winds behind us we rounded Cape Caution in stormy seas but without issues. Now we are taking advantage of the remaining South wind enjoying smooth sailing up Fitz Hugh Sound. →
June 12, 2018

Johnstone Strait and North Vancouver Island
West of Seymour Narrows the country becomes much more remote. We do not have to share anchorages anymore or even the dock in port. After transiting Seymour we took advantage of the favorable current and →
June 8, 2018

Strait of Georgia
Update: The satellite tracker is working now: Check our live position: https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Sage Usually the prevailing winds in the Pacific NW in spring are from the North. →
June 4, 2018

Gulf Islands and Vancouver
After a short sail from Roche to Sidney we cleared customs into Canada without problems. Veit and Christoph came aboard, we got some more provisions and went off to anchor in Bedwell Harbor for the night. →
May 29, 2018

Roche Harbor
Before dawn on Saturday, May 26th it was time to leave Seattle and start heading north. Taking the most direct route through Admiralty Inlet and the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Roche Harbor meant we had →
May 21, 2018

storm jib
The problem with furled head sails is that when partially furled up to reduce sail area in high winds they lose all shape and do not allow to sail close to the wind anymore. The storm jib is a solution →
May 9, 2018

Sea trial and Clipper race
  After a winter of repairs this weekend was Sage's sea trial. It felt great to be out on the water again and the new electronic toys spotted the Clipper Around the World fleet leaving Seattle →
April 24, 2018

Upgrading the old B&G wind and depth sensors
One of the Alaska upgrade projects was to upgrade the old B&G Hecta 4 instruments to a modern version with NMEA interface. We settled on the B&G Triton with Speed/Depth and Wind and 2 cockpit →
April 24, 2018

Seaview Boatyard
In January Sage was hauled-out at Seaview West to get new bottom paint, a through hull for the new B&G speed/depth sounder and to replace the stuffing box. Unfortunately the prop shaft flange that →