Despite our late evening, most of us were up fairly early this morning, with Trav leading the pack at around 6 o’clock. I got up shortly thereafter and started the tea for Erin. It was a beautiful morning in Port Madison, and the dew was all beaded up on our new paint job.
After our morning hot beverages, Erin fixed some breakfast of scrambled eggs with sausage, toasted English muffin and fruit – blueberries and peaches. As usual, the fare was excellent. We had a pretty lazy morning. My activity consisted of attaching our new Classic Yacht Association burgee to the port side antenna. Our burgee is blue, denoting a “vintage” yacht – one made after 1942 but before the 60’s. The pre-WWII yachts are sporting red burgees. During our leisurely morning, an old cruiser from the 20’s glided into Port Madison, circled our anchorage and headed back out. Its home port was Olympia and it was sporting the CYA burgee, do doubt on its way to Poulsbo. We later found out that it was built at Lake Union in 1926 for the founding family of the Olympia Brewery.
We weighed anchor around noon and headed out around the corner through Agate Pass, where the current was ebbing a knot or so against us. We were in no hurry though – in fact we detoured over to Manzan
ita Bay on the backside of Bainbridge to take a tour around its shoreline. As we crossed back over the channel towards the entrance to Liberty Bay, we were joined by four older cruisers that had just come through Agate Pass heading in the same direction. We were cruising at about the same 7 knot speed and blended into a 5 boat flotilla for the entrance into the bay. As instructed in the info emailed to me a couple days earlier, I radioed ahead to the Lady Grace on VHF channel 68 to get a slip assignment. Except for the very end dock, which is double length, the slips here are either 30’ or 40’. We are stern in on a 40’ slip with our bow sticking out about 13 feet. But, our entry door and ladder are on the dock and that’s what’s important.
Barb, Erin and I walked into town a little later in the afternoon, browsed through a few stores and found our way to the Poulsbo Bakery. They have an outstanding collection of body putty sweets, and we picked up a few rolls and a couple packages of lefsa. This is a Norwegian town, after all…
Diane Vanderbeek, the Rear Commodore of CYA and our sponsor for joining, came by and invited us to her boat for hors‘d oeuvres, which her chef had prepared. Her boat is the Olympus, a 97’ fantail cruiser built back in the 1920’s. We had dinner in the oven, but shut it off for awhile and headed down for a brief visit. We were introduced to a bunch of people as the newest members of CYA. After a short time we returned to the Potentate and got our dinner going again. Erin an Barb went back into town for the Art Walk while Trav and I stayed on watch at the boat. That means we did nothing much.
It’s now about 8 o’clock and we’re contemplating our evening’s entertainment, which will be either a short game of dominos or perhaps a movie.
After our morning hot beverages, Erin fixed some breakfast of scrambled eggs with sausage, toasted English muffin and fruit – blueberries and peaches. As usual, the fare was excellent. We had a pretty lazy morning. My activity consisted of attaching our new Classic Yacht Association burgee to the port side antenna. Our burgee is blue, denoting a “vintage” yacht – one made after 1942 but before the 60’s. The pre-WWII yachts are sporting red burgees. During our leisurely morning, an old cruiser from the 20’s glided into Port Madison, circled our anchorage and headed back out. Its home port was Olympia and it was sporting the CYA burgee, do doubt on its way to Poulsbo. We later found out that it was built at Lake Union in 1926 for the founding family of the Olympia Brewery.
We weighed anchor around noon and headed out around the corner through Agate Pass, where the current was ebbing a knot or so against us. We were in no hurry though – in fact we detoured over to Manzan
ita Bay on the backside of Bainbridge to take a tour around its shoreline. As we crossed back over the channel towards the entrance to Liberty Bay, we were joined by four older cruisers that had just come through Agate Pass heading in the same direction. We were cruising at about the same 7 knot speed and blended into a 5 boat flotilla for the entrance into the bay. As instructed in the info emailed to me a couple days earlier, I radioed ahead to the Lady Grace on VHF channel 68 to get a slip assignment. Except for the very end dock, which is double length, the slips here are either 30’ or 40’. We are stern in on a 40’ slip with our bow sticking out about 13 feet. But, our entry door and ladder are on the dock and that’s what’s important.Barb, Erin and I walked into town a little later in the afternoon, browsed through a few stores and found our way to the Poulsbo Bakery. They have an outstanding collection of body putty sweets, and we picked up a few rolls and a couple packages of lefsa. This is a Norwegian town, after all…
Diane Vanderbeek, the Rear Commodore of CYA and our sponsor for joining, came by and invited us to her boat for hors‘d oeuvres, which her chef had prepared. Her boat is the Olympus, a 97’ fantail cruiser built back in the 1920’s. We had dinner in the oven, but shut it off for awhile and headed down for a brief visit. We were introduced to a bunch of people as the newest members of CYA. After a short time we returned to the Potentate and got our dinner going again. Erin an Barb went back into town for the Art Walk while Trav and I stayed on watch at the boat. That means we did nothing much.
It’s now about 8 o’clock and we’re contemplating our evening’s entertainment, which will be either a short game of dominos or perhaps a movie.
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