A much better day today as the winds are much more consistant and from a better direction. They are supposed to stay like this for a few days, possibly being a little lighter. This would be good for me! Been passing the time watching movies and reading, not too much to report other than that. Still no sign of the sun.
Current Position:
21,05.51N 130,57.28W
Course: 267 at 5.5 kt
Progress: 131 nm
Wind: 17 kt from 45 deg, cloudy
Jared,
I recently talked to your Mother, we are going on an outting this Saturday. I hope to persuade her to go to Ladner which I am about to explain.
Russell and I are going through a mid-life crisis together. We have our house up for sale which is particularly hard. We have become accustomed to the river view and have a dislike of subdivisions. We wanted to see how we could keep the best of the both worlds and came up with the idea of a floating homet. After a visit to Grants Landing where the boat owners are from the 70′s and the prices are from the Pan Pacific Hotel a year later we finally visited Canoe Pass out in Delta/Ladner. Well we loved it, the view, the lifestyle, the fact that the average age is over 55 without being toted a “retirement village”. Then the boat slip, it turned our imaginations into a canoe for exercise, then hearing of the crabbing nearby to a tender, which led us right to a boat big enough to sleep in and explore the coast and all the secret places that we couldn’t see by land. Sorry, I am Victoria’s mother and will take the English long way to the point rather than the shortest route. So the problem is that I have hated boats since I was sixteen and Russell is from the interior and mocks the boats on the river. We are treading deeply into unknown waters. We don’t know the first thing about water roads. I am hoping that you can direct us to information in regards to etiquette from going across the Fraser River to Stevenston to how to fill up with gas. Not to mention reading charts, should we wander more a field than the lower mainland to the effects of winds, storms, fuel consumption, any thing basically. We are old dogs and soon to be sea dogs but are as naive as a newborn baby. Any help, point in the right direction would be much appreciated.
I will try to promise to keep your mother in hand however she is her own force to reckon with.
Look forward to your insight and direction,
Deborah aka Mrs. Paterson