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finally feels good to be underway yeah

it feels really good we've been waiting

for good weather for so long I feel like

this Coast has been pummeled it for like

the past couple months it's been brutal

I'll talk about that there's the Kobe

but we're making a break for it looks

like we got a few days right couple days

the winds gonna be it'll be brisk

Whittle be on our back so I'd love to

run with it for a while yes this is

gonna be an overnighter so we're doing a

little bit over a hundred nautical miles

yeah we're gonna go into gear Baldy

but tides weren't working with us we

would have had to hit gear Baldy in the

middle of the night and that's kind of a

tricky bar to get into there are a lot

of showing a lot of shallow areas so not

recommended to go in especially at night

if you're not really familiar with the

area we've been in a couple times but in

a while so I'd rather go to a bigger

port so we're gonna run all the way down

to Newport 110 nautical miles and we

should hit that tomorrow morning oh this

is so good we gotta remain

sorry get salient we're in the Columbia

River for the next two hours we're

actually traveling north right now into

the wind as soon as we hit the mouth

we'll be able to hang a left and drop

the engines and raise the sails ever get

close to the mouth of the Columbia this

is Cape Disappointment its port can be

up on the cliff there and the sea State

is not too bad

looked at the bar conditions and we're

good to go to cross the bar so we just

crossed the mouth of the Columbia bar

and you get a little choppy for a little

bit it was about 4 to 6 foot waves but

it got pretty steep right there as we

were crossing over but it's starting to

flatten out and once we passed a couple

of these markers then we can turn and

start heading south I'm hopeful that the

rest of the day and into the night will

be just as pleasant so fingers crossed

I'm just hoping that this this overnight

passage won't be as bad as the last one

we had which is when we hit the log I

don't think I'm gonna sleep much tonight

okay we've got a log up under under us

right now we collided with a 40-foot log

we're gonna keep an eye out for crab

traps or pots and

hopefully we don't have that if they if

there is a lot of pots out there they

will probably go further out before

heading south what do you think I think

that's something we'll make it the

decision wants to get out here I'm

looking at the ASO it looks like it's

mostly salmon fishermen out here right

now I haven't seen a crab pot well we

saw one in the river but haven't seen

one out here yet but we are still in the

channel so time will tell

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well we took the corner we're heading

south killed the engines just light

winds out here right now but we're doing

about 6 knots first time ever we have

the jib the new jib and the main up

feels good feels real good we're just

gonna drift on down the coast we can't

go much more than 5 knots because we'll

hit our next port in the dark trying to

time it for daybreak so if we pick up

too much speed we're gonna have to drop

that main

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it's kind of funny because if I go in

the direction that we should be going we

get a decent speed but if we just change

the angle just by five degrees I can get

like a knot a little bit over a knot and

it gets more and more the more I point

out and I really want to do it but

probably not the most comfortable swell

hitting us on our beam so I guess I'm

just gonna have to be patient and go at

a slower speed sacrifice that knot for

comfort baby it's so fun to go

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somes will be going down soon it's been

a nice sunny day most of the day but

don't let it fool you it's been chilly

out here you know we had a nice sale so

far we had Maine up and jib up haven't

needed to start the engine since we

crossed the bar it's been beautiful

winds are probably 10 to 15 all day long

and we were maintaining speeds around

six to seven knots but they picked up a

little bit in the last hour - we are now

hitting 15 to 20 s so we dropped the

main and we had to reef in our head sail

probably only have 50 percent of our jib

up now because we're going just a little

too fast we don't want to hit our

destination at low tide in the middle of

the dark so by doing this we've dropped

our speed to about five knots and we'll

hit new part about eight o'clock in the

morning

looking forward to it should be a chilly

night though

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well we made it through the night pretty

blustery night winds picked up around 11

o'clock to about 25 gusting to 30 and it

held it for 4 4 plus hours we took ship

throughout the night but Lin sure took

the bulk of them she is much better at

the night shifts than I am I would do

the little short ones and she powered

through it the longer ones it's quite

the trooper we had to reef in our jib

during that high wind just to a small

handkerchief and we were just doing on

that sail about 7 plus knots probably

touched 8s and 9s once in a while

seas were building starting to flatten

out now so we've pulled the jib back out

and we're scoot along it five and a half

knots still have it reaped in quite

quite a bit though we're almost there

we'll be entering the yukina river

system into Newport here and

12 0.4 miles so it looks like we'll time

this perfectly the Sun will be up we'll

have a good visibility of the bar there

are no restrictions right now so that's

good and the wind has died down it's

even better

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8 a.m. perfect gotta love it the sun's

out the winds dying down and we're

powering across the bar and we should be

tucked into Newport here in a half an

hour

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so cool

here we are

Newport cute little place it was this

dead calm when we rolled in here we had

a little breakfast relax for about an

hour actually took a little nap when I

woke up the wind started it's supposed

to be blowing 20 25 again today starting

to go already but that's ok we're a nice

quiet place for tonight

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we are celebrating because we had

another successful passage with our

respective vices - a little whiskey and

I got my rose a whopper so cheers to an

awesome hundred ten nautical miles I

think we did pretty good basic really

spread her wings

we got the jib in the mane up and we

just scooted along and it was a lot of

fun wasn't it no drama no issues just

straight clean sailing it was it was

awesome I slept the entire time we're

underway I don't have very many

responsibilities like my only job is to

take care of myself

and compass but you know that's gonna

change yes he doesn't do very much but

he does really want me to hold him all

the time and he does get a little

seasick he hasn't gotten his sea legs

yet and we mostly sleep and I'm okay

with that

looks like compass is celebrating with

us

I know go ahead eat your dinner there is

a reason why we celebrate after every

passage here in the Pacific Northwest

yeah yeah because let's face it big

celebration every single time yes the

Washington Oregon and Northern

California coast yeah I mean let's face

it you don't see a lot of day sailors

out there no you don't in the last few

months we have yet to see anybody that

went out there for a pleasure it just

doesn't happen so it's great sailing in

Puget Sound and then north and and and

Victoria Island and then from San

Francisco so yes but in between yes

there is this like black hole of an area

that people don't really talk about and

that is the Pacific Northwest it is a

rugged coast filled with how do you

explain it there isn't any Anchorage's

well actually I did hear of one

Anchorage we talked to one sailor that

anchored behind destruction

Island for a night but you said it had

to be perfect condition okay first off I

never want to anchor off destruction

Island okay I know the point is the fact

that they named it destruction Island I

know

tells a big story and then you have so

Jerry you can anchor there all you want

I looked at it as we went by there's no

way in hell I'm anchoring there and you

know the Columbia bar they call it the

graveyard I mean it's there are some

very dangerous bars along the Pacific

Northwest and you know what I actually

if you google the most life-threatening

or dangerous bar in the world the

Columbia River comes up that is number

one it does so there's a lot of factors

when we set our sail plan we can't just

go there are number one there are no

safe harbors for us to tuck into if

there was bad weather which most of the

time it is bad brother but when it's bad

weather the bars are up so it is I know

I tend to be a little cautious a lot

cautious but that's for a reason once we

get further south I tend to relax a bit

and we are a little more mobile but for

now we're looking for the right weather

windows and you know we hit one

yesterday well kind of it was it was

lumpy but you know what we made it and

yeah it was it was fine I'm a little bit

more lenient about that I can kind of

handle a lot more um the biggest factor

is obviously Emma we don't want to scare

her in the first beginnings of our

travels you know with this Coast I want

her to have a good experience well we

want her to have a good explainer I want

to have a good experience and you know

there are so many factors there are

tides that we have to think about yes

winds there are in this well this well

there's a way how close though the waves

are together you know and then the fact

that we want to go to from port to port

to experience

and kind of you know see the sign so

there's a lot of timing involved you

know it's yeah there's a lot of time I

guarantee you there are not people out

there along the Washington Oregon Coast

just leisurely sailing no as a matter of

fact for the day you know I've been

watching that since we've been sailing

down the coast for the past few months

we have yet to meet one other sailboat

or see another sailboat out there that

wasn't a hired captain just moving the

sailboat from point A to point B it

usually is from Seattle to San Diego or

San Francisco right and they are just

it's all business no pleasure there is

very little pleasure in sailing this

Coast right now but well you know this

beautiful right this summer is coming up

on us and the sea state will calm down

and it's gonna be a little more

leisurely for us so we'll be a lot more

mobile here in the next few weeks yeah

and then the other thing is is insurance

you know insurance companies do not want

you to travel from between I guess

October to June late June along this

coast yeah we had to actually pay for

extra riders to travel during this time

and there's probably a reason for that

there's probably a reason for that but

it's just not fun I mean you try to make

as much fun as you can but you know it's

it is what it is it's cold so honey here

we go this I think is my third glass

that's okay it's okay today I did all

the night watches you did well

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