The welcoming "First Sight" of familiar smiling faces from home. Our friends and boating buddies, Gary and Jean flew into Seattle to spend some time with us. Even though the weather could have been better, we still had lots of fun touring downtown, eating, drinking wine and playing games.The time went by so quickly but I guess it always does when you're having fun and sharing good times with friends and making memories.On Sunday, we had a mostly dry day…
Time to get the two hundred and fifty feet of chain wet. We didn’t need it all but we wanted to try out our new boat at anchorage so we headed out during a one-day weather window. We went through the Hiram Chittenden Lock to the eighteen-mile long Lake Washington. We toured over to Bellevue, around Mercer Island and buzzed by Bill Gates estate before we settled into Cozy Cove, on the east side of the lake for a quiet…
We came to Seattle to watch our future boat be built and little did we know when this plan was formed that the most important experience we will take away from our time in Seattle will unquestionably be all the new friendships we made and a couple of old ones that were renewed.When I (Lisa) moved away from Seattle some thirty years ago I left four very good friends, Patti and Eric of Seattle and Judy and David from Lopez…
Although we've been living on our boat for two weeks already enjoying ourselves while getting the new Kismet commissioned to our satisfaction, we felt that it was time for a short trip to get a better feel for the boat.We choose Poulsbo because it was recommended by a number of people as a must stop, so we headed out across Puget Sound on a mostly clear day with calm silky waters. The boat handled well as we maneuvered over the…
Time for guests and a little celebrating. Our son Ross and his girlfriend Brooklynn came up from Portland, OR for the weekend and we did some sightseeing around town and went for a cruise in the Sound on Sunday morning.We also had our friends Patti and Eric, Margee and Walt aboard for a late afternoon cruise on Wednesday and a couple of our friends from the B&B, Tom and Jacques, over for dinner on Saturday.
Finally settled on the boat and looking forward to some anchoring out and a little cruising time.We spent a couple of days carting leather chairs to the boat to see if they would fit in the salon. The third one worked and we are happy with the result. We decided on a chair and ottoman instead of two chairs. This will give us a little more breathing room since there is already plenty of places to sit in the salon…
