{"id":5752,"date":"2017-07-04T21:37:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2017-07-04T21:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T21:42:50","slug":"longboat-day-4-a-windy-sail-to-saddlebag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/longboat-day-4-a-windy-sail-to-saddlebag\/","title":{"rendered":"Longboat Day 4:\u00a0A Windy Sail to Saddlebag"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Peter, Aaron, Rosie\u2014<\/p>\n

In the morning of the fourth day, the boys awoke from a long and troubled night of wind and boat rocking. \u00a0The flapping boat cover had prevented sleep for all but the most drowsy of them. \u00a0Upon removal of the boat cover it was revealed to be a cloudy and windy day. \u00a0As the girls arrived from the tent site it was apparent that they had slept much better.<\/p>\n

We all got together on the beach at 6:00. \u00a0It was soon apparent that everyone was freezing. \u00a0After slowly loading the longboat it was suggested that we get on our bright neon orange exposure suits. We looked like a small army of orange marshmallows.<\/p>\n

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Preparing the sails beforehand, we lifted the anchor and rowed out into Bellingham Channel where we were greeted by a hair raising site, a giant oil tanker heading in our direction. \u00a0Captain Chrissy got on the walkie-talkie and called up Seattle Traffic to tell them to connect us to the tanker’s captain. \u00a0We informed him of our location and type of boat, preventing a collision.<\/p>\n

After the tanker passed safely in front of us we raised our sails and steered towards the northern tip of Guemes. \u00a0From there we handed out breakfast: bagels with cream cheese, peanut butter, and\/or jelly.<\/p>\n

While heading for our next destination, Saddlebag Island, we had to circumnavigate around Jack Island. \u00a0We then sailed back and forth across Padilla Bay slowly making our way towards Saddlebag. \u00a0After a brief encounter with a barge towing tugboat, some of the crew took the time to cozy up in their exposure suits for a nap.<\/p>\n

Finally we arrived at our destination at around 12:45 PM. \u00a0We quickly set up camp and took a few hours of free time before dinner.<\/p>\n

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Dinner that night was lentil curry soup which we enjoyed with a side of sailor boy crackers. \u00a0We then played a friendly round of The Malorie Family Fun game, a combination of charades and a talking guessing game and went to bed for our final night of the voyage.<\/p>\n

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By: Peter, Aaron, Rosie\u2014 In the morning of the fourth day, the boys awoke from a long and troubled night of wind and boat rocking. \u00a0The flapping boat cover had prevented sleep for all but the most drowsy of them. \u00a0Upon removal of the boat cover it was revealed to be a cloudy and windy day. \u00a0As the girls arrived from the tent site it was apparent that they had slept much better. We all got together on the beach at 6:00. \u00a0It was soon apparent that everyone was freezing. \u00a0After slowly loading the longboat it was suggested that we get on our bright neon orange exposure suits. We looked … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}