Tuesday, June 13, 2017

2016 La Conner Washington

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.