Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Southbound for the Holidays

December 16, 2015

Since completing our 3000 nautical mile voyage to SE Alaska our first order of business was to have Spirit hauled out and annual maintenance performed, including fresh bottom paint, replacing the Amartech shaft seal, tuning the propeller and strengthening the rudder shoe after water was found in the keel void.  Spirit is now safely moored at Anacortes Marina and winterized for possible cold weather.

New Amartech Shaft Seal

Reinforced Rudder Shoe and retuned Prop


We have also been preparing for another trip, this time with someone else driving.  In less than 48 hours we drive to Vancouver, BC where we will overnight at the Fairmont Hotel at the airport.  On Friday we board an American Airlines flight to Santiago, Chile.  After an overnight stay we will transfer to Valparaiso, Chile and board the Seabourn Quest for a 24-night voyage though the Chilean Fjords, Patagonia, the Drake Passage, the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia Island and finally arriving in Buenos Aires with a stop in Montevideo, Uruguay.


Christmas will be in the Chilean Fjords and we will celebrate the New Year somewhere on the Antarctic peninsula.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Patrick and Miriam,
    I'm very interested in using your photo of a shell midden in a booklet that the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife is making for waterfront homeowners. The booklet is about alternatives to bulkheads.

    Please get in touch at Alison.Hart@dfw.wa.gov. I look forward to hearing from you.

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