I think a rig-and-sail day is coming in July. I suggest posting a message to the Northwest Potters group on Yahoo to find out!

Hi Jalene! I'll get back on the trip planning horse soon, just got very busy with work up in Oregon City :-)

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Nice to hear from you, RC :-)

Hi Diane, and welcome. There are two books I routinely use and like: A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands: Olympia to Port Angeles [Spiral-bound] and Gunkholing in South Puget Sound: A Comprehensive Cruising Guide from Kingston-Edmonds South to Olympia [Paperback]. Both are available through Amazon. The South Puget Sound book probably won't be very helpful if you'll be up around Whidbey. You can email me directly at tom [at] tomsalzer [dot] net.

I've updated my call sign to a "7-land" call. Amateur radio call signs are numbered, and the numbers used to reflect where you live. That changed some years ago. My prior call was W3ROK, a "3-land" call which is on the eastern coast of the United States. As I became more involved in long-distance radio, I learned my number was important to many of the people I was talking with. When I upgraded to Amateur Extra, I also upgraded my call sign to a 7-land call. Now I am N7ROK :)

The gallery has been updated with new photos from this year to show a more complete sequence of flute construction.

I've updated the flute making gallery with some new photos taken this year. Now a more complete sequence of flute construction is shown.

I can no longer suggest a fan-forced electric heater. This past winter, the one I was using melted the 120-volt male plug and the extension cord's female plug receptacle. I found it during a weekly check on the boat, and the problem could easily have turned into a boat fire. So: no more heaters of that sort in the boat!

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Since my boat is trailerable, I usually launch from Bellingham and thus avoid the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Tides and shoals are still concerns, as is commercial traffic in Rosario Strait.