Desolation Sound, Here We Come!

Hello Friends and Family,

We are leaving today, May 26, on our first day of a trip to Desolation Sound in Canadian waters. Our traveling companions are three other WINSA boats, Sweet, September Song, and Misty Isle. The tides are very low, so we'll leave the dock around 1PM and travel to Coronet Bay to stay overnight before we head out through Deception Pass the next morning and then on to Prevost Harbor. We are traveling in our new boat, the Karen Marie, and have lots of questions about how we'll manage our long trip. We are unfamiliar with how well our Windlass will work; whether we'll be able to cruise along with our homemade awning; if the oven will work (we've never tried it out before); if the fridge will really work all the way up to Canada and back; and whether we'll have constant rain or great warm days like last year. Jim has set up new charts on the computer, and he'll learn about those as we go along. We have a new radio, which I've never used. We have a different chart plotter at the helm, which I've never used. All these things will make the first days busy and exciting. When we have access to the Internet, I'll add where we are and the latest about what we see, along with photos. Keep a look out for us!

Cheers, Jim and Virginia (SV KarenMarie)