What a beautiful day to be on the water! Still boatless, Harold and Jesse took us out on their 36′ Unitflite, for a tour around the Tacoma harbor, across to Dockton, and we even poked into Gig Harbor to pick up some lunch at Tide’s Tavern. This was Clara’s longest trip on the water, and

The July 3rd fireworks event in Liberty Bay is the single most looked forward to event of the year for me. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of boats descend on Liberty Bay for one of the better fireworks displays around. Boats come in groups and raft up (tie together) or singly. This year I was excited to

The groundhog may have said we have have six more weeks of winter weather but Mother Nature must have ignored the memo. February 12th a few friends, both old and new, got together to go sailing on Mo’mento, Anne Girven’s Beneteau 323. The skies were bright blue, the mountains standing out proud, and the wind a

I was invited to a Shilshole Bay Yacht Club rafting event in Liberty Bay on July 3rd by Joe Bozick, an ex-commodore. Hundreds of boats gather on the 3rd and celebrate our nations independence. I had never been to a rafting event before so I read up on how to raft, loaded extra bumpers and