On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we leave Port Angeles and have a nice sail to Neah Bay on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. Back to back weather...

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oK we've been in Port Angeles now two

days I've got a project done on the boat

we provisioned and the weather is

starting to clock around in our favor no

longer it's gonna be 20 knots on our

nose it's gonna be 10 knots

on our tail so that should be nice

comfortable sail for tomorrow morning

we'll leave at daybreak we'll leave at

daybreak and have a nice sail up the

Strait of Juan de Fuca you know it'll be

a full day's run from Port Angeles up to

Neah Bay and we'll be able to camp out

there that's a good jumping point to

wait for it than our next weather window

to head down the coast of Washington

beautiful night so we're just enjoying

it we're all prepared for tomorrow

morning and daybreak

we'll be out of here okay Sun hasn't

come up yet we're heading out of Port

Angeles and unfortunately it's not a lot

of places to anchor

for the next couple hundred miles of

coastline we're going to be hopping from

farver to harbor and try to make them

during daylight hours it's getting cold

though it's 34 degrees outside so it'll

be a chilly run and we'll make it into

Neah Bay right before sunset that's the

plan well we're just flying up the

Strait of Juan de Fuca nice brisk breeze

on our back about 12 to 13 maybe 14 15 s

we're cooking along under Dib at six and

a half knots

sometimes hittin seven

we did have a situation though our our

jib track our 26 year old jib track we

knew it was outdated we knew it was

gonna have problems and it did it let go

with a big pop here about five minutes

ago

so I rerigged a new working jib track

until we get into port

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seems to be working just fine we do have

our new Garr Howard track it is sitting

in Portland waiting for us

maybe I'll ship it up to our next

destination

we'll see but for now everything seems

to be running fine just got to get

creative once in a while

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so I'm in the cabin picking up some

snacks for the crew and I'm going to say

it's been kind of Pleasant it was a

little choppy in the morning but not too

bad we did have an incident with our

youngest crew member hasn't gotten his

sea legs yet so poor guys just sleeping

it off

otherwise not too bad just been pretty

good emma is sleepy still but she's

getting the hang of it

kind of cold right now

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a little mishap earlier good not to

worry no big deal we've neighbors here

we knew who we had to replace it anyway

just added a little excitement to the

day okay the girls are up on on the

netting up there

we lost our wind so we curled up the

head sail the Tampere rigging worked

fine all day not ideal but it got us

here we're just two miles from the

entrance it's what's a pretty successful

day we're about 60 miles into this this

journey today and we're on the

homestretch we could see the the marker

buoys for the channel opening and we

should be in the harbor within half an

hour okay here we are

Neah Bay at the Makah tribal marina you

know we pull in and everybody started

grabbing lines and helping us dock and

just real friendly people here so far

it's been awesome and to top it off

we're here see how

I go to check in and come back with this

huge halibut look at this look at this

fillet this is amazing I love this place

I love halibut everybody's so nice

everyone is so nice

okay so good first impression of me obey

I love it well they jockey this around

put us in a new slip we're the end tie

of sedeuk now that's a big fishing boats

coming in and they didn't want us to get

damaged by them it's not so bad down

here with the exception of one thing

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it's the fish cleaning station right

here right next to us so it attracts a

lot of sea life so it's really fun to

watch Lynne and Emma try to walk by

these guys

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okay while I'm waiting for parts to come

in we should get some today and some

tomorrow I'm gonna work on line control

I'm gonna put some more deck hardware

down to help control our roller furling

lead we have a stand up block here and

another fairlead I'll show you where

those are gonna go now that we've got a

little history with some of this deck

hardware and some of the rigging this is

quite the tripping hazard right now I

knew I was gonna do this it's just a

good place to do it so I built the the

risers for it and I'll get that in today

the idea is to suck this line down to

the deck here so it's an easier walkway

here so that's what I'll do right now

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okay I've built a riser

everything's sealed with butyl tape

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so while we were hoping to get our sale

tract picked up in Portland Oregon

things happen things break and we

decided to call teals brother who picked

up the package and he diverted it over

to Nia Bay so we can install it before

we head down the coast she'll just went

and picked it up so got lots to do looks

like I got a good project let's open

this up make sure it's the right thing

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well it's all here looks perfect

this new tracks quite a bit beefier than

our old track so I feel much better look

at this okay here we are bright and

early

sitting at the bus station you know

we've been doing our shopping here at

wash Birds they got a nice selection and

they do have hardware in there but they

don't have a few nuts and bolts that I

need to do this install so we're gonna

jump on the bus this morning and and go

to Forks Forks has a Ace Hardware we're

hoping they have a little bit bigger

selection but we'll see this will be

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well I've been waiting for this for two

days now we received our new track and

new hardware but it's been just raining

and windy just coming down in buckets

just solid for two days been blowing 25

and the rain has been horrendous

but just check the radar looks like I

have about three four hours of sunlight

so I'll be able to dry off the decks and

get this new track down I'm taking

advantage of every weather window I can

from here on out because it looks ugly

for the next ten days the old track I

mean let's face it it was 25 26 years

old and the hardware was in the end of

his life it was just brittle and old and

we put a little bit of a load on it

coming up this Strait of Juan de Fuca

and there was some plastic components on

that old harken gear and it just gave

way we knew it wasn't gonna last and we

knew we had to get a new track and new

hardware and this just kind of kicked

our butts and made us install it a

couple weeks earlier than we thought we

would not a big deal but sunny now so

let's get this in we're trying to beat

this weather and get the sale track in

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everything

it'll take all of these poles are

exposed I thought we had a bigger window

than this

I wait about two three hours building up

just right now right yeah 25 great

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almost got it

I will on the inside

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okay got that track down in the nick of

time we scrambled oh we got it winds

starting to ramp up again there's six

storms in a row hitting us we hit one

last night that was the first we got

another one hitting today four more

right after that so we'll just keep

busting these projects out while we can

start looking for that window

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we got that track in just in the nick of

time because it is pouring out and if

you notice some of our bolts are much

longer than we needed but we had to work

with what we had and in lieu of the

eight core nuts I used some temporary

nuts and now we're going to cut them off

and put those acorns back on

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there's teal outside just

take an inventory of all of our dock

lines he said we were springing too far

forward and back so he's just

repositioning everything tightening

everything up there's major wind gusts

right now and it doesn't look like it's

gonna diminish so looks like we're in

for the night kid this is crazy crazy

weather

it's 140 plus outside easily gusting in

the fifties

and just rain coming down sideways

I threw out

you know we have ten dark lines now

holding us to the dark I'm glad I put

them out it is just unreal outside just

one more system coming by us tonight it

seems like they're hitting us in the

mill tonight every night

this is three nights in a row

just unreal outside unreal

so we're in while we're in neo bei

they're having a tsunami drill and this

is mandatory the whole town is heading

to safe ground so we're participating

the sealions art

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keep going people we're six minutes into

this evacuation we got to get up to safe

ground well we're we're out of breath

but we're alive yeah we climbed

elevation about a hundred feet we can

keep going but anyway we'll make the

trek back to the boat now just wanted to

participate in the drill is part of

their life

it is cool are you out of breath yes

okay let's head back to the boat

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so we've been in Neah Bay now for a

while and the weather has been

horrendous

telogen it has been challenging that's

why we're here we we saw this system

coming and we knew it would be a long

live weather event and this was a good

place to camp out plus the people were

really nice I mean the first couple days

that we were here we had three different

fishing families that came and brought

us fresh halibut it was like twenty

twenty-five pounds of halibut we had and

we filled the freezer refrigerators full

so is you'd a challenge to lend I gave

her a cooking challenge we're gonna have

halibut seven days in a row and find a

different way to cook it each night it

was challenging because there is only

one grocery store here and it's very

limited in resources so I did get really

creative and I think it turned out okay

it's awesome I did pretty good and I

saved the best meal for last last night

I made my all-time favorite which is a

vin amis hot and sour soup and it takes

me right back to you when I go to my

parents and my mom always makes it for

me because it is my all-time favorite

hot and sour soup is a combination of

sweet sour and spicy and you have to

find that perfect balance to complement

every flavor and I was able to find most

of the ingredients there were some that

I had to improvise but I gotta tell you

it was not as good as my mom's but it

was pretty darn close I was happy with

the result and so is Tila Demma

it was delicious I mean it was the

perfect meal for a rainy soggy evening

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let's one say thank you to the Makah

tribal community they have been very

friendly and helpful

they have taken a situation like all

this bad weather and made it an

experience that we'll all cherish the

rest of our lives and as far as Lin goes

I through a difficult challenge her way

and she knocked it out of the park every

night was a creative and delicious meal

in fact I would have no problem

revisiting that same menu over the next

seven days anyways I need to get back to

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some nice weather that may be our time

to get out of here guess you'll have to

come back next week to see if that

happens see you then

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