A short uneventful trip across Rosario Strats brought us to Anacortes where we planned to spend a few days relaxing, prepping the boat, and visiting with friends. This was also our pickup for crew for the trip down the coast to Sausalito. I like Anacortes a lot. It's a real traditional maritime town with shipyards, excellent marinas, and a cool downtown with great food.
Marty & Dana, who live on Whidbey Island, generously offered to pick our crew up at the airport for us. After weeks of being just us, we suddenly had lots of friends around. Our crew for the trip south was Will (from our previous trip up the coast a few months ago), and Julius who is our good friend Heathers son. Julius completed a trip to Mexico and back last winter with his family and was eager to rack up some more sea time. When they arrived, we took a walk over to Dakota Creek shipyard where the last of three ferries for the North Bay ferry operation were built.
The last boat (LYRA) is coming along well and should be ready to head down to SF in early spring of 2020.
Exhaust system (Julius for scale)
Fishing Fleet was prepping for crab season:
This boat really caught my eye. A rare steel Romsdal Trawler built in Norway in 1965, and restored to perfection.
A proper monument for a maritime town:
Kona getting some rest for the last leg of our trip:
Hmmm.... a car appears to have jumped the curb and taken out the front entrance of the local DMV:
Seals were making good use of the empty floats here:
Ran across a Corvette club party on our way back from dinner. This is the new Stingray:
Ready to go...
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