Arriving in the Pacific Northwest

SV Counting Stars arrived in Nanaimo British Columbia, CA on 7-June-2019. Larry Meyer met us to help offload her. Larry owns the local Leopard Sunsail charter company and sailing school branded Island Cruising as well as the Deep Cove marina in Sydney, BC.

After clearing customs, we headed south to Sydney to drop Larry and were asked us stay overnight in his marina. Early the next morning, Bob borrowed Larry’s e-bike and went to a nearby market to pickup water and food as we had not provisioned. We departed mid-morning crossing the US boarder using the CVP Roam app and anchored in Port Ludlow. We dropped the dinghy by hand as the winch switch disconnected during transport and the corrosion needed to be cleaned before a solid connection could be made. We made our way to the Resort at Port Ludlow for dinner.

The following morning we continued on to the Port of Bremerton. We arrived in Bremerton to find new faces at the dock offering to grab our lines. It was a wonderful welcome to her homeport!

Then the work began to check lines for chaffe, put the forward sails back on and clean the dirt accumulated during the last month on the cargo ship.