This week on Onboard Lifestyle we finally get our weather window and leave Westport on our 435 catamaran SV basik. We could not have timed our departure bett...

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welcome back to SP basic as you can see

we're underway finally had our weather

window looks like we're gonna have the

seeds of calm down so we got a little

bit of maybe two days of traveling

well at least make it into ill wakow

tonight and we'll see from there if the

weather looks good we might shoot over

to warrant in the next day but we're

gonna take advantage of it the bars are

open for the first time both grace

Harper and the Columbia bar are both

open the same time since I can't

remember so this is it let's go

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okay we're just sailing along here Jib

only we're doing five knots don't want

to run the engines because we're just

going through a sea of crab pots I mean

literally thousands of them around us I

don't want to chance getting those

tangled up so we're just gonna sail

through this for a while not real windy

but we're doing okay Linds up here on

the lookout tell me which way to to

zigzag do these but they're everywhere

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so this has been my position for the

past four and a half five hours I've

just been a crab hot wash and this is

why it was so important for us to travel

during the day because today it's barely

decent

these are pretty mild the wind is just

perfect for us to put up our head sail

but it's so hard to spot these traps and

there are thousands of them out here

we're just weaving in between them and

around them and just trying to find ways

to sail tonight

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it's pretty spectacular out here after

the second west part for so long I can't

complain and that also makes me really

excited once we put on the bait this is

a great motivator because we have nots

with just our little chip so I can't

even imagine how well we're going to do

with the B Stella and our Friday she's

made for this Emma is tucked inside with

compass they're just enjoying the day a

little bit warmer because I am wearing I

think more layer and bottom and I'm

freezing I don't think I can feel my

toes it was about 30 degrees this

morning and then there's a

probably gonna be

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okay we're still making good time still

just flying jib only and dodging ease

right here

they're everywhere I hear still gotta

stay alert

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just seeing one after another

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they fall off here this this one

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there's another one here another one

there they're in line usually once you

see one there's gonna be 50 all on the

line behind it I'd rather be going right

next to these lines so I know where

they're at rather than trying to cross

perpendicular to the line but it's

working out pretty well we did have one

little hiccup and got a little close on

one and it hit our sail drive but it

freed itself just one snuck up on me

just hard to see them in the Sun look at

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besides that we're about 13 miles from

the mouth of the Columbia we should hit

that around a three o'clock comes

another one been like this the whole way

I'm gonna sleep well tonight

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so we've been trying to sail from bar to

bar and I think that we've been doing

pretty good because we are about eight

nautical miles just north of the mouth

of the Columbia River and it's supposed

to be perfect because it's going to be

slack tides so we won't be fighting the

currents getting in there

fingers crossed though because when the

currents coming out you'd be kind of

fighting like a three to four knots in

your face so no fun and that means we

have to motor in we'd like to sail in if

we could but you know can't have

everything other than that so this has

been a pretty spectacular day

Emma's been learning how to watch for

crab pots

and she's just enjoying herself I think

we're gonna really get used

Emma's a great little watch girl I think

she takes to the ceiling quite naturally

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so we are now entering the mouth of the

Columbia River I don't know the video

will actually be able to portray or let

you see these big swells that are coming

in and we're writing them everything

flattened out just perfectly and we

timed it so then we're going in at the

right time a lot of times if you don't

plan it right here

I mean it's catastrophic there's been so

many lives that have been lost by

entering it at the wrong time so timing

is everything guys this is a pretty

spectacular

I don't know when the next time we'll be

back here but I'm just so grateful that

Emma gets to experience this and it was

such a great passage the Columbia River

Bar is one of the world's most dangerous

entrances to a major commercial waterway

this is where the forest of 265 thousand

cubic feet of water per second from the

Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean

conditions from the bar are extremely

dynamic and can change hourly with the

ability to generate huge waves it takes

great planning to ensure that you cross

the bar at the right time

and it looks like the crew as we basic

did just that ah could not ask for

better conditions going across the

Columbia bar Columbia River Bar could be

ugly

one of the worst bars in the world but

look at this we timed it weathers great

Emma's at the helm took it over the bar

okay we're inside heading towards Ile

wakow tonight the long narrow channel

right around this jetty here we should

be in and about that's about an hour

hour and a half we're still about

about two miles from a wacko but the

first obstacle to the channel is making

it through this these winged walls here

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we're just now entering the waka Marina

and it's time to call it a day starting

to get really cold and we'll be in soon

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okay here we are tucked in for the night

it's a good day feel good about it

you know we thought about just spending

one night here and heading off to the

next destination but it's a cute little

seaside town looks like it's heavy into

commercial fishing just like most of the

towns we've been seeing on the coast

here so we might stick around here for a

couple days

we'll see weather's nice right now

though so it's itching to go south but

we're not in a race and we got to get

caught up on some things like EMA

schoolwork and videos and just life so

we may be here for just a few days

before we head on over to Warrenton

pretty big facility here about 800 slips

mostly commercial and looking around

it's a pretty small town but it's worth

the stop you know coming in coming in

through the entry here looking out a

chart it's a long narrow channel

probably about two nautical miles long

and it branches off the Columbia River

and it looks intimidating if you're

looking at a chart but once you're in

it's well well marked and real obvious

where to go

it's probably I'd say 50 to 75 feet wide

most of the channel and not much room

for error

I would assume a lot of boats end up in

the sand coming in here not us went

pretty smooth

so we'll hunker down for the night I'll

have to check in with the marina in the

morning they're closed already but we're

in a nice safe spot so have some dinner

then just relax

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