Hi
guys! Better late than never. My last
blog was before my surgery, was I missed? Don’t answer; I don’t take rejection well.
CB
and I are ensconced at the La Conner Marina RV Park. This used to be called
Potlatch RV Park and was pretty junky until the Port Authority took it over and
now it is very nice.
We
are overlooking the Marina where there are hundreds of boats; most have undercover moorage. The big ones are tied up along the perimeter. Sailboat
masts pointing skyward, ready to carry colorful canvas to propel them to ports
thruout the West Coast and beyond. All have names and home-ports emblazoned on
the fantail (that would be the boats butt for the un-initiated).
La
Conner is where my parents moved to when they retired. CB and I spent many happy days visiting. My
Dad had a large cruiser moored near their home on the Swinomish Channel. Dad and I would navigate the channel and head
out to sea by way of Deception Pass.
Many sailing ships made the fatal mistake of
trying to sail through the pass on a changing tide, when water flowing thru reaches
speeds of 25 to 30 miles an hour. Going through in a power boat can be very
interesting, full throttle and moving forward very slowly while being tossed
about due to the severe turbulence caused by a massive amount of water flowing
thru a narrow and shallow pass. It truly
is very deceiving. Those sailors sure
were deceived.
