After 4 years and 10 months away sailing around the world we are back in our new home in Comox on Vancouver Island. We lucked out getting a spot in the marina for our boat. We are now busy emptying our storage locker into our house, buying a new car and removing stuff off the boat. It's all a bit much, maybe should have stayed out cruising, but it is nice to be home. At the same time we are doing some hiking and kayaking with friends here.
Tagish is now sold. On to new adventures. This blog may be reactivated at some point.
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- Tagish is a 36' Brent Swain design steel sloop with Canadian's, Brian and Dorothy on board. Built using the origami method of folded steel. It has 'keel cooling' using the skeg which holds 10 gallons of cooland/antifreeze like a car and using pump in engine is circulated for cooling. It also uses a dry exhaust for better reliability. So no water brought into boat for engine, no impellors or heat exchangers or sea water strainers to mess up. The anchor windlass is manual only, with 200' of 5/16 hi test chain and 100ft of 3/4 nylon on the drum which is mounted on deck. Tagish is named after a lake in the Yukon, Northern Canada where we had a cabin as children. See 2 short video clips of boat sailing-goto older posts in blog at March 4/2011.
Awesome blog, do you guys have any recommendations on learning to sail? I noticed that the AMA has some sailing courses (ASA 101 "Basic Keelboat Sailing", ASA 103 "Basic Coastal Cruising") and I was thinking of enrolling in some of them in the Chicago area.
ReplyDeleteAlso, do you guys have Merchant Marine licenses or anything like that?
No we have no licenses. We were relatively new to sailing when we started our trip. I just took one short basic sailing coarse and learned the rest from books and doing it.
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