Soon Quijote will be on her way north again for another summer of sailing fun. Okay, more motoring than sailing, but still fun.
This year we’re headed about as far north as we can without crossing into southeast Alaska. My intent is to spend a couple of nights in Prince Rupert, British Columbia before turning around and heading home again. That’ll take us about seven weeks in all. We depart May 15 and return Quijote to her slip on July 3, if all goes as planned.
I like to begin each blog with a summary of the blogs that have gone before. This year marks the tenth year of blogging for our favorite sailing vessel. There is more content in all these blogs than any sane person would want to read, but they're there if anyone is interested.
I’ve been massaging the content of these blogs into something like a book in my spare time. The scale of the effort is intimidating, given how little free time I have, but if I can finish a tile lighthouse mosaic in under thirty years, I ought to be able to write a book that is essentially already written.
Quijote's Blog Summary:
2016 took us up the Inside Passage to Glacier Bay, Alaska for fourteen weeks with seventeen crew joining us along the way at various times:
In 2017 Quijote crew did a six week circumnavigation of Vancouver Island:
http://svquijote2017.blogspot.com
Then in 2018 we headed back up the Inside Passage for five weeks to the Broughton Archipelago:
http://svquijote2018.blogspot.com
2019 was intended to be the start of a two year Pacific Ocean semi circumnavigation through the islands of the South Pacific, but like so much else that year, was interrupted by the global Covid pandemic. It's hard to visit countries that won't let you in. We got as far as the Sea of Cortez, Mexico before hauling the boat out of the water and storing her in a boat yard. We then flew home for the rest of the year. The trip is detailed in the 2019 blog:
http://svquijote2019.blogspot.com
In 2021 we made the return trip home from La Paz, Mexico via Oahu, Hawaii to Seattle:
http://svquijote2021.blogspot.com
In 2022 we sailed to Prince Rupert and made the crossing of Hecate Strait to the Prince Charlotte islands, known to the locals as Haida Gwaii:
http://svquijote2022.blogspot.com
2023 we visited the Broken Group, Desolation Sound, and Princess Louisa Inlet:
http://svquijote2023.blogspot.com
We did a second circumnavigation of Vancouver Island in 2024, this time in the fall:
http://svquijote2024.blogspot.com
Last year was a short trip. We just did a couple of weeks up to Desolation Sound and back.
http://svquijote2025.blogspot.com
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