By Friday afternoon we were ready to get Doubletime back in the water. After her stately re-entry on the crane we slowly steered around to the fuel dock and filled her up (for the first time ever!). ...

After a pleasant night at Royal Cove, we decided it was time to head off to Heidi's new home for the next week; Todd Inlet. We untangled ourselves from the Stern tie, hoisted the anchor and we were a ...

Today was intended to be a simple cruise from Sidney spit to the haul out location for Sidney spit. As we woke it was a grey morning but we could see Sidney through the mist and heh! - what could go ...

Benjy planning our big adventure first two weeks route So this morning was the big day that we leave Victoria for 3 months. The sun shone as we packed the last of our bits and pieces in ...

Well our dear friend had spent the winter bobbing up and down in the harbour but not really going anywhere. We had taken apart the engine and pocked around in the wiring, everything seemed to be work ...

FOr some reason this isn't documented but below are some photos from the trip Day 1 - 01 Sep - Wharf Street to Discover Island - First time every anchoring in Puget Cove ...

The forecast showed that there wasn't meant to be much wind today but it had been a while since we had ventured out on Double Time and so we thought to heck with it - let's go. We left the harbour to ...

The wind was meant to be light today but better than Sunday so we planned to head out and repeat my journey of last week around Discovery island, possibly dropping the anchor if we had the guts to hav ...

With Heidi away, I had agreed to head off with Adam and show him how a sloop rig sailed. (Adam had recently bought a custom made feo-cement gaf rigged ketch and was pretty new to sailing, having neve ...

With the family in town we thought it would be only proper that we let them experience something of the joys of sailing. First out was Mum. We wondered if she would be happy doing anything more than ...