Gave my two week notice at work...

[Juho]

Originally Posted by TrentePieds

Quote: "I recommend investing in a good down duvet."

Duvets are luvverly, but in a SMALL boat?? Damn nuisance, stowagewise, sez I.

However, where Keto is going, a good mountaineering sleeping bag from that exemplary, hardcore socialist enterprise named Mountain Equipment Coop, headquartered in Vancouver, and jammed from floor to ceiling - several stories worth - with QUALITY stuff, is the way to go. They sell bags that'll keep you snuggly down to -30ºC, and that ain't gonna happen in the Salish Sea.

Personally I'm happy with a lesser bag. But I keep my hoodie on, cos I'm bald and my bag doesn't have a hood.

It isn't the cold that gets you here, it's the dampness. So far so good. we mostly manage to dry our stuff. But if you really can't get your stuff dry - or live with it wet as we used to do when sailors were sailors and women were glad of it - you pull into a marina and go to the wash house and stick it through the dryer. Remember, excellent marinas are only an hour or two away regardless of where you are around here.

TrentePieds

I have a sleeping bag too, but so far the reason to end the autumn sailing season has always been the freezing sea, not need to switch to the sleeping bag . Down duvet with sheets also feels a bit more homelike than a sleeping bag.

I haven't had any storage space or boat size problems with the down duvet. A 2m or 7' long cabin is sufficient .

There's lots of rain and dampness in the PNW. But also up here dampness is the other key reason to warm up the heater every now and then.

[TrentePieds]

Keto

Here's a link to a boat that would serve you well. AFAIK she'll still for sale.

http://www.crboatbrokerage.com/apps/...toid=202898636

TrentePieds

[TrentePieds]

Keto:

In case you don't know off-hand, Campbell River is basically at the southern end of the Brougton Islands. Lovely cruising grounds. CR is a town big enuff to oiffer you all the services you could require, and once you wound Cape Mudge (1 hour away) you will have absolute solitude.

Pass northward a little ways and you'll find Port Hardy - just as useful as CR, but again an hour or so from absolute solitude.

TrentePieds

[TrentePieds]

Juho:

Used to campaign a Finnish-built King's Cruiser 29 many years ago. Lovely, lovely boat, but doesn't cut it here against NA-designed boats because she is too deep and too slack in the bilge for our local weather regime.

The Salish Sea is NOTHING like den Botniske Bugt, den Finske Bugt or Skärgården. Here we stay afloat all year, though there is wisdom in carrying loden underwear for the next four or five months :-)

TrentePieds

[Juho]

Originally Posted by TrentePieds

Juho:

Used to campaign a Finnish-built King's Cruiser 29 many years ago. Lovely, lovely boat, but doesn't cut it here against NA-designed boats because she is too deep and too slack in the bilge for our local weather regime.

The Salish Sea is NOTHING like den Botniske Bugt, den Finske Bugt or Skärgården. Here we stay afloat all year, though there is wisdom in carrying loden underwear for the next four or five months :-)

TrentePieds

I'm eagerly waiting for the day when I can sail the northern pacific coastline. Some of the reasons are massive landscapes, northern rainforests, incredible wildlife, hot springs, fishing villages, all the islands and waterways.

[TrentePieds]

Well, hop a flight, and I'll give you a taste of it! Just as long as you promise not to speak Finnish. I'll promise not to speak Danish ;-0)!

Just for nostalgia's sake I would take you to a place called Sointula. As you may judge from the name, Sointula started as a utopian community set up by Finns. It, like so many other such communities, came to grief because some monkey couldn't refrain from monkeying with another monkey's monkey :-)

TrentePieds

[Juho]

Originally Posted by TrentePieds

Well, hop a flight, and I'll give you a taste of it! Just as long as you promise not to speak Finnish. I'll promise not to speak Danish ;-0)!

Just for nostalgia's sake I would take you to a place called Sointula. As you may judge from the name, Sointula started as a utopian community set up by Finns. It, like so many other such communities, came to grief because some monkey couldn't refrain from monkeying with another monkey's monkey :-)

TrentePieds

Ok, I'll give you a ride around some islands in the Archipelago Sea when you get here. You might get along in many places there if you can speak decent skandinaviska.

I know the Sointula utopian experiment. Not quite ideal in the end, as so typical to human societies.

[Don C L]

OK, I suspect this may be out of your price range and maybe also just out of range in Juneau... but I'd sure love to see this boat. A complete refit and now she's selling for $30K... a solid classic Columbia 38, deep keel version, pretty rare, built back when they really built 'em, in like-new shape, good performance, sea-kindly...
just wish I could get her!! If you can afford a boat like this, that has been refitted with the whole thing documented like this, do it! Run, don't walk. I have no interest in this boat except that I'll be very jealous of whoever gets her!
https://juneau.craigslist.org/boa/5861152118.html

Check:
columbia38

[TrentePieds]

Quote: "...if you can speak decent skandinaviska."

As I listen to Danmarks Radio or watch the occasional Danish news-clip on HolyMotherNet, I am struck by how Danish has changed since I left. It has been said that Danish is not a language - it's a throat disease. I have come to agree. It strikes me that there are but two people in all the world that speak proper Danish anymore, and that is Queen Maggie and me :-)!

As for Swedish, I'll have to spend a night or two with Selma Lagerlöff to get my confidence back ;-)

I had never thought of it, cos Sointula is not a part of the Danish cultural background - but is Sointula something every Finnish schoolchild knows about?

You might like to know that I have on my living room wall a painting by a lady who was born and grew up in Sointula. She is my age and therefore post-dates the break-up of the commune. I call the painting "my Sointula Madonna".

TrentePieds

[Juho]

Originally Posted by TrentePieds

Quote: "...if you can speak decent skandinaviska."

As I listen to Danmarks Radio or watch the occasional Danish news-clip on HolyMotherNet, I am struck by how Danish has changed since I left. It has been said that Danish is not a language - it's a throat disease. I have come to agree. It strikes me that there are but two people in all the world that speak proper Danish anymore, and that is Queen Maggie and me :-)!

As for Swedish, I'll have to spend a night or two with Selma Lagerlöff to get my confidence back ;-)

I had never thought of it, cos Sointula is not a part of the Danish cultural background - but is Sointula something every Finnish schoolchild knows about?

You might like to know that I have on my living room wall a painting by a lady who was born and grew up in Sointula. She is my age and therefore post-dates the break-up of the commune. I call the painting "my Sointula Madonna".

TrentePieds

Sointula is something that every educated Finnish person might know. Many actually do. But it is just one interesting emigrant story. There have been also other idealistic emigrant communities. Maybe the part that makes the Sointula story more interesting than many others is the fact that they even had their own island to implement the ideal society.