So in the middle of Elsewhere’s refit in Portland, I get a call to deliver a powerboat from Anacortes to Sydney BC. This is hugely inconvenient to leave the boat and the 10 people helping to get Elsewhere ready for The NW Offshore but as all these refits seem to go I’m hemorrhaging money like crazy so I agree to drive up for the one-day delivery. When I arrive I find out that the truck that is driving the boat from Texas has broken down and will not be making it so I drive back to Portland to continue work. The boat’s new owner is a nice young Canadian commercial fisherman and offers to pay me for my lost day if ill drive back up to move the boat when it arrives. This was going to be challenging because the arrival date ended up conflicting with the Elsewhere crew’s availability to help so I called Arnie Hammer to see if he would move the boat from the slings to the temporary slip. This done I could get on the boat with relative connivance.

A few days later I was underway to Friday Harbor to grab my Hobie Power skiff. Yes, that’s right the Hobie that made the Hobie Cat made an unsinkable surf rescue boat. She’s my inter-island zoomer with her 50 horses and weighing only 650 pounds she tows very nicely. The two 250 Yamahas did notice a thing. Oh and the Pursuit is a pretty sweet boat and that’s coming from a sailor. After a relatively uneventful customs visit and the border paperwork done we were zooming back to Friday Harbor.