Monthly Archive: August 2021

Sailing with friends

In 1999 my friend John and I took a week-long sailing course to qualify for bareboat chartering, renting a boat without hired captain and crew. The course took place in the waters of the...

Along the river

A few days ago, my friend John Harland and I motored through the Columbia River Gorge on my mini tug, Lizzie G.  In the Pacific Northwest and perhaps elsewhere there used to be a tradition...