Photo Gallery
Bay of Islands, April 2010
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Photos from my month sailing around the Bay of Islands, first with Amber from back in Bham and then with Delaware Johnny and Marisa up from Franz Josef. |
Haruki Gulf, Feb/Mar 2010
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Photos from my time in Gulf Harbour, sailing with Iwona’s family out to Tiritirimatangi and out to Great Barrier Island with Tiffany. |
Whangarei to Whangaruru, Jan/Feb 2010
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Photos from sailing out of Whangarei to Parua Bay, Tutukaka, Mimiwhangata, Whangaruru, back to Whangarei and down to Auckland. |
New Zealand, Nov-Dec 2009
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Photos from around New Zealand in November and December 2009 |
New Zealand Haulout, Dec 2009
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Photos from Hauling Bodhran at the Norsand boatyard in Whangarei New Zealnd, December 2009 |
Hawaii, Nov 2009
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Photos from my visit to Greg and Bonnie on the Big Island in November 2009. |
Western Towboat, Jun-Oct 2009
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Photos from working for Western Towboat in Alaska Summer 2009 |
New Zealand, Jan-Mar 2009
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Photos from my travels around New Zealand. There are a few from Whangarei where Bodhran is moored, but the majority are pics from my ramblings hitch hiking around the two islands. |
Crossing from Tonga to New Zealand, November 2008
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The few pics Tate and I took during our 11 day, 1050 mile passage from Tonga to New Zealand. |
Tonga, August - October 2008
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Pictures from Tonga. I spent 2 months in the Vava’u group in northern Tonga, 10 days in the Ha’apai group in central Tonga and hopefully will be out of Tongatapu and on my way to NZ in less than a week |
Niue, August 2008
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Pictures from the small island nation of Niue |
Cook Islands, July-August 2008
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Pictures from Aitutaki and Palmerston in the Southern Cook Islands |
Society Islands, June-July 2008
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Pictures from my travels through the Society Islands |
Tuamotu Archipelago, May 2008
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Pictures from my travels through the Dangerous Archipelago |
Marquesas, April 2008
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Pictures from travels with Bonnie and Greg on Willow through the Marquesas Islands |
Crossing, March 10 - April 4th 2008
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Pictures from my 25 day, 3000 mile passage from Barra de Navidad Mexico to Fatu Hivu in the Marquesas |
Barra de Navidad, Dec 2007/Jan 2008
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Pictures from my month in Barra de Navidad, Jalisco. The first few weeks were spent with my family over Christmas, the second 2 weeks were with my buddy Tate and the group of girls we met from Quebec |
Southbound, October-December 2007
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Pictures from my travels south from Bellingham, WA to Manzanillo, Colima |
Container Crane Delivery from Long Beach, CA to Dutch Harbor, AK August-October 2007
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Pictures of my 67 day trip down to Long Beach to pick up a container crane and deliver it to Dutch Harbor. Of course all hell broke loose in Dutch, so it got extended to include pulling a barge off the rocks, transloading a bunch of cargo and then taking the other barge up to Bethel and finally Nome, AK before I jumped ship and flew home |
Gravel Run to Bethel, July 2007
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Pictures of my first run with Western Towboat. I flew up to Bethel Alaska as relief crew. We made three runs between Dillingham and Bethel delivering gravel to repave the roads. We then went to Seward to pick up a bunch of empty shipping containers. We came back south through the Inside Passage via Dixon Entrance. |
Haulout in Guaymas and road trip north,
May 2007
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Pictures of my haulout in Guaymas and the subsequent road trip north to
work for the Summer. |
Northbound from Barra to San Carlos
Mar-May 2007
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Pictures of my northbound trip from Barra de Navidad, to Mazatlan, to La
Paz, to the islands and finally up to San Carlos to haulout for the season |
Phoenix Project
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Pictures of the Phoenix as she was reborn from the ashes and put into
sailing shape in La Paz during March/April 2007 |
1994 Dodge Van
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Pictures of the 1994 Dodge Conversion Van I’m buying from Ron and Dianne
off Batwing. |
La Cruz to Barra de Navidad, February 2007
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So if you look at this album, you’re going to get really sick of seeing
people playing music, but that’s pretty much all Tate and I did for January and February this year. So here’s all the pics of Tate and I in La Cruz, later joined by Brandon, Jason and Beth in Barra de Navidad. |
Mazatlan to La Cruz, January 2007
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Pictures of Tate and I on our trip from Mazatlan to La Cruz with stops at
Isla Isabella, San Blas and Chacala |
La Paz to Mazatlan, January 2007
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Pictures of Tate and I in La Paz, Isla Espiritu Santo and Isla PartidaAnd here’s the sea lion video from Nick’s camera out at LosIslotes: LosIslotes.wmv (6.3MB) |
Christmas 2006
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Pictures of my family and myself in La Paz for Christmas 2006. |
Cabo San Lucas to La Paz, November 2006
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Pictures of my round-about trip from Cabo to La Paz. I crossed from Cabo
to Mazatlan to meet up with Greg and Bonnie on Willow and then hit San Blas and Punta De Mita before turning back North and making my way up to La Paz, Novemmber and December 2006. |
San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, November 2006
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Pictures while transiting the outside of Baha California on the way down to
Cabo San Lucas with Kurt and Trevor in November 2006. |
San Francisco to San Diego, October 2006
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Pictures while transiting the California coast on Bodhran along with my Dad
and my friend Joe in October 2006. |
Bellingham to San Francisco, September 2006
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Pics from my Departure leaving Bellingham Washington sailing down to San
Francisco. I put in a few pics from when we were offshore. Unfortunately during all the snotty weather and when the really interesting things were going on, I was too busy to pull a camera out and document it. Hopefully Peter will send his pics before too long and this album will grow a bit bigger. |
Subdued Stringband Jamboree, August 2006
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Pics from the 6th Annual Subdued Stringband Jamboree at the Deming Logging
Show Grounds August 2006. |
Tofino, June 2006
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Mac and Jessica had a beautiful wedding at their place. Afterwards a whole crew of us, including a bunch of mid-westerner’s who flew out for the wedding, convoyed up to Tofino for 3 nights of camping on the beach. |
Rigging Project, Winter 2006
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In the winter of 2006 I pulled the mast off Bodhran and embarked on a full rerig. I ended up taking all the hardware off the mast, stripping it down and painting it, replacing the wiring in the mast and in the boat, adding a led tri-color masthead light, adding running backstays, adding folding mast steps, adding spreader lights, adding a spinnaker pole track, replacing the vhf antenna, replacing all the shrouds and stays, replacing the turnbuckles and replacing the chainplates. Hopefully I won’t have to do all that again for a few years. |
Downeast 32 Miracle, March 14 2006
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I ran into Miracle, the other Downeast 32 in Bellingham, while on an evening sail with Steve on his Catalina 22 Baby Blue. |
Inati Bay, February 2006
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Overnighter to Inati Bay with my Dad on his Fantasia 35 Merlin. Joining us were Kurt and Steve on Kurt’s Fuji 32. |
La Conner, January 2006
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Overnighter down to La Conner with Dean, Amber, Sarah and Michelle. |
Crystal Mountain, December 2005
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Snowboarding with my brothers Trevor and Alex at Crystal Mountain. |
San Francisco, September 2005
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Trip down the coast to San Francisco I took with Greg and Bonnie on their home built Benford 34 Willow. |
Subdued Stringband Jamboree, August 2005
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The Subdued Stringband Jamboree at the Deming Logging Show Grounds. |
South Beach Trail, August 2005
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3 day hike I took with my brothers Alex and Trevor along the Washington coast on the South Beach Trail out of La Push. |
Eagle Harbor, July 2005
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Single handed trip I took out to Eagle Harbor on Cypress Island. |
Sailing July 27, 2005
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Light air day with the folks from work. The wind was so light that we decided to drop sail and go for a dip in the bay. |
Sailing July 22, 2005
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Great day sail on Bellingham Bay with winds in the high teens. Most of the pictures are of my buddy Kurt’s Fuji 32. |
Misc sailing pics, updated July 2005
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Miscellaneous sailing pictures from when I just got the boat untill now. Updated periodically as I take pics that I don’t want to make a new album for. |
Gulf Islands, June 2005
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Week long trip I took through the Canadian Gulf Islands on Peter’s Pacific Seacraft Dana 24 Gitana. We buddy boated on this trip with Kurt and Emily on their Fuji 32. |
Sucia Island, May 2005
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Trip to Shallow Bay on Sucia Island for Mac’s birthday. |
Tofino, March 2005
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Camping trip to Tofino, BC with Mac, Jessica, Kellie, Abbey and Garret. We tried a bit of surfing, did a little whale watching and generally had a great time. |
Inati Bay, February 2005
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Trip to Inati Bay with Kurt and Emily’s now unnamed Fuji 32 and Peter’s Dana 24 Gitana. My buddy Lamont skiffed out from the marina and snapped these pictures of us as we were taking off across the bay. |
La Conner, January 2005
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Trip to La Conner, WA with Tate, Audrey, Jessica, Amber and Amber’s friend whose name I can’t remember. We met up with Tate’s buddy Matt and his crew who had just bought a Lafitte 44 which they have since taken cruising. |
Chicago, November 2004
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Business trip to the Radiological Society of North America’s annual conference in Chicago. My buddy James moved to Chicago while his fiancee, Berit, finishes her PHD at Northwestern. So we were able to vist them for a few days after the conference. |
Barkley Sound, August 2004
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Month long sailing trip I took to Barkley Sound with Kurt, Tate and Audrey. |
Camping in Quincy, WA July 2004
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Camping trip I took to Quincy, WA. The campground was close to the Gorge Ampitheater where we saw Robert Hunter, The Allman Brothers and The Dead play. Camera’s weren’t allowed in the Gorge so the pics are just of the campground. |
Matia Island, July 2004
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Trip I took out to Rolf’s Cove on Matia Island with my Dad on Merlin, my brothers Alex, Colin and Trevor, and Colin’s buddy Jason. |
Sucia Island, June 2004
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Trip I took out to Shallow Bay on Sucia. James and Berit joined my on the sail out to my Mom’s house on Lummi Island the first night. Peter sailed out on Gitana and Mariah drove out the next day for the trip out to Sucia. |
Willow’s Departure, May 2004
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Greg and Bonnie taking off on their first big trip in Willow. Greg’s brother, Dan, accompanied them to Hawaii. They then sailed on to Palymra atoll, back to Hawaii and back to Bellingham all in one summer. |
Delivering Merlin, May 2004
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Delivering my Dad’s new to him 1976 Fantasia 35 Desiderata (later to be renamed Merlin) from Anacortes to Blaine by way of Echo Bay on Sucia. |
Kurt’s Birthday, April 2004
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Kurt Baumgarten’s birthday weekend April 2004. 3 day/5 boat trip to Inati Bay on Lummi Island and Shallow Bay on Sucia. The boats involved were my Downeast 32 Bodhran, Kurt and Emily’s Fuji 32 Mariko II, Peter’s Dana 24 Gitana, Greg’s home built Benford 34 Willow and Dan’s later to be named Roberts 34 Shyla. Greg and Dan had to get back to Bellingham after the first night, but it was quite a party the whole weekend long. |
Bodhran’s Haulout, April 2004
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Haulout April 2004. This was my first haultout since I bought Bodhran. I stripped all the loose paint off the bottom, repainted the bottom, changed the zinc, repainted the boot strip, waxed the hull and changed the hailing port from Seattle to Bellingham. |
Gitana Delivery, Feburary 2004
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Pictures from helping Peter deliver his 1988 Pacific Seacraft Dana 24 Gitana from Seattle to Bellingham. I had just got a wide angle lens for my Fuji Finepix 5000. Unfortunately the step down ring that I used to attach the lens introduced a black ring artifact into the picture when I was zoomed out. Consequently there are a lot of photos in this set that look like they were taken through a rifle scope. |
Inati Bay, Feburary 2004
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These pics are from an overnighter we took across Bellingham Bay to Inati Bay on Lummi Island. Peter, Andrew and James came on my boat while Tate accompanied Greg on Willow. |
Desolation Sound, August 2003
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These pics are from a month long sailing trip that I took through the Gulf Islands and Desolation Sound. My brother Alex and my buddies Tate and Josh accompanied my for the first 2 weeks. Then Peter drove up to Lund and got on board for the second 2 weeks while Alex and Tate drove his car back to Bellingham. |
San Juans, May 2003
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This was my first multi night outing on Bodhran. Josh, James, Peter and I took a week off work and made an anti-clockwise trip around the San Juan Islands. |
Delivering Bodhran, November 2002
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Sailing Bodhran, my new to me 1979 Downeast 32 from Gove’s Cove on Lake Union in Seattle to Bellingham. James and Kurt helped my on this trip. |