Sailing Vacation - 1997 When Nancy arrived home from work Friday, August 29, we packed her car with gear, clothes, food, etc. for our voyage to the Canadian Gulf Islands. We dropped my car off at our West Bay marina in Olympia and drove two hours north to Port Townsend, a port city which is the gateway to the Strait of Juan de Fuca at north Puget Sound. My friend Pete Janni and I took our sailboat Le Sauris, a 28 foot Newport, from Olympia to Port Townsend Marina the previous weekend. We had a nice dinner in old downtown Port Townsend. Afterwards we went to the marina and transferred all of our gear from Nancy’s car to the sailboat. I checked and verified that the waypoints in my Garmin GPS were accurate for crossing the
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