On Aug 26 we purchased our first “Big Boy Toy”, a 1979 MacGregor Venture 25 Sailboat. We named her Chinook. She’s a 25′ Sloop with a swing keel, drafting 22″ keel up, 5′8″ keel down and weighing 2100 lbs. She berths 5, or so that’s what the builder claims, and she has built in floatation [...]
September Snow
We had a big storm over labor day weekend, so on monday I went down to the lake to check on the boat. To my surprise, the top several hundred feet of most of the mountains were covered with snow. Now if that’s not global weirding, I don’t know what is.
And this was late in [...]
