Fall Cruise 2010: Our Last Days In Anacortes

26th September to 28th September:

After a sunny day on Saturday (25th) the rains arrived once more on Sunday and continued until Tuesday (28th). The clouds finally cleared and the sun came out; one draw back of having covered moorage is that we are facing East! So we have shade most of the day and do not the benefit of direct sunshine.

We did a Costco run!
Jan was hungry and ordered up an ice cream bar!
She was surprised with a giant hand dipped chocolate and almond bar.
This one is already half gone.

We have spent this week cleaning Kozad and getting organized; emptying/organizing the lazarette and washing out the storage areas, inventorying the inside of the boat and taking off a lot of items that we have not used for a couple of years.

Jan did the laundry and is happy with the marina laundry machines which are only a dollar per load. Jan has the responsibility of packing, loading and finalizing our provisions and gear! Not an easy task.

Jan organizing the car so our boat stuff will fit!
She fits those jeans nicely!!!!

When we went to Sidney on the 22nd Sept. one of our tasks was to drive to "The Harbour Chandler" in Nanaimo to pick up a search light bulb! Craig had not been successful in finding one to fit our Vintage Ray Line search light; we were surprised that this Chandlery had two in stock. We took both as Craig still has not been able to find another one anywhere else!

Kozad's vintage Ray Line Search Light

The allusive search light bulb!

Replacing the search light bulb was one of the easier tasks we completed this week!


Craig was able to get a few extra coats of Cetol stain on the outside wood surfaces of Kozad. The humid and cool weather was frustrating and made applying the masking tape a frustrating job! Even with the sun shining, outside of our dock, it still took 24 hours for the Cetol to dry enough for a second coat!

Craig applying the first coat of Cetol on Kozad's caprails

We were recently contacted by Three Sheets Northwest. This is an on-line boating publication which provides a resource and services boaters in the Pacific Northwest. The site which started nearly two years ago and has about 15,000 readers a month. The site has a daily featured story in addition to shorter news stories; as well excerpts of posts from local boating blogs are provided under a section called: "The Guest Dock" .

We were asked if Kozad's Blog could join the other Bloggers on the Guest Dock! Of course we said yes....

We are very, very pleased with our move to Anchor Cove Marina; Richard is the best Marina Manager around; he is knowledgeable, friendly and helpful! Frank, who also works at the Marina, is also very helpful and has extensive marine experience.

We have met great people here; there is of course are great friends Richard and Gwen on MV Northstar, Jim and Leslie who are two slips from us have an older wood Monk Cruiser; as well as a 42' sailboat in the Panama! Steve and Rolynn have a 42' Krogen and are also on our dock; then there is Charles and Joan who have a 40' Pacific Trawler, MV Sea Eagel, on the outside uncovered dock. They are great people who have invited us for dinner on our first night in Anacortes.

These are just a few of the boaters who are at Anchor Cove Marina; and then of course moving here has also introduced us to Bill and Darith, who have MV Quest a Willard 40PH at the Anacortes Marina.

In our short time of boating and owning MV Kozad, we have met some truly amazing and wonderful people! Boaters are a friendly crew.....