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Two weeks ago, while anchored off Blake
Island, a Defender Class Coast
Guard boat approached. Rare before
9/11, we now frequently see these boats around Elliott …

Last weekend we presented at the Seattle Boat Show on our 24×7 run to Alaska. 
The slides are posted at Hamilton_SBS11_Alaska24x7.pdf. 
A couple of questions w…

Last April, Circumnavigator magazine
came aboard for a day to review
the boat and its systems.  On
board for the magazine were contributing editor James Kirby, …

The seminar schedule for
the 2011 Seattle Boat
Show has been posted. This year we’ll be presenting on Saturday Jan. 22nd at 11:30am
on our trip to Alaska this …

After the astonishing view to Mt. La Perouse in Dundas
Bay West Arm, we didn't think the north arm could compare. But we were wrong–we
liked the north arm even better. The head of the…

Nope–these pictures were taken in the south Puget Sound earlier today. We're out
on a Thanksgiving cruise, and were anchored last night in the cove behind Raft Island
(map
of area). T…

Although we hadn't run overnight before the Alaska trip, we frequently ran
at night in the previous boat. And we did make a couple of night runs in the 52.
The learning from those two …

Porcupine
Bay was our last stop on the west side of Chichagof Island–we would spend the
next week in Glacier Bay National Park. We still had two more days before we could
enter…

We've been ordering a seemingly endless number of supplies and spare parts for the
boat, ranging from fuel filters to zincs to alternators to pumps, and even a spare
inverter. Stowing …