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Tag: Vancouver Island

Boat and Sailing

Unexpected visitor

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Luksana Panyavanich

  Greetings from Our Cozy Cabin Since the day we left Prince Rupert we think that we will probably never meet all those people we know again. Garry is the ...

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Victoria – Sidney – Victoria

We just back to Victoria today. Last week we left Victoria to Sidney and stayed there to completed installation a new navigation light on top of the mast. This second time round trip both Sidney and Victoria has delayed our date to leave Canada. We decided to bring the boat back to Sidney because we couldn’t complete this work in Victoria and in Sidney the location is close to marine …
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June 9, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}, Navigation light, Ocean passage, off shore, Pacific Crossing 2014, Pacific cruising, Sidney, The Inner Harbour, Victoria

Victoria | Before heading to Juan De Fuca Strait

Greetings from Victoria, British Columbia! Our passage currently finds us in the capital city of BC. Our boat is docked right downtown in the Inner Harbour Government dock. We started the Passage from Prince Rupert since 12 April 2014 through BC Inside Passage, Vancouver Island, and we just arrived to Victoria yesterday …
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May 31, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Cowichan Bay, Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}, Dufour 35, Inner Harbour Marina, Ocean passage, off shore, Pacific Crossing 2014, Pacific cruising, S/V Beautiful Swimmer, Sailing, Sidney, Vancouver Island, Victoria

In touch again

Greetings from Cowichan Bay! We have moved from Maple Bay. First to Genoa Bay for 2 nights  and then to Cowichan Bay today. Yesterday the place we anchored was very windy and the wind generator worked well. The climate is warm but there is still wind so I must keep my jacket on. Oliver supported us with transportation while docked on Southern Vancouver Island. The distance …
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May 25, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Cowichan Bay, Cruising, Dufour 35, Genoa Bay, Maple Bay, Thetis Island, Vancouver Island

Enjoying our extended stay in Ladysmith

Greetings from Thetis Island {Pub} Marina ! As we left Ladysmith today. Very disappointing as we have not solved the engine overheating problem and after many hours we are still not able to use our SSB radio to send and receive Emails. The engine overheated badly, and Stephen says it is all Oliver’s fault!! LOL. But we must enjoy the rough with the smooth. So we …
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May 20, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Ladysmith Maritime Society, Old town bakery, Thetis Island Marina

Engine problem

Hey there! Recently we had a major problem with the engine and just has been solve. We couldn’t leave Nanaimo until last thursday as we had a  reoccurring overheating problem. Now as readers might recall the heat exchanger had broken last Thursday when we arrived at Ladysmith. After remanufacturing a piece for $3 and buying a Volvo washer for $5 we thought we had fixed …
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May 17, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}, Dodd Narrows, Engine problem, Ladysmith Maritime Society, Newcastle Island, Ocean passage, Ocean passage, Salt water, The boat

Ladysmith Maritime Society for boat communication & back to Stones Boatyard, Nanaimo

Greetings from Stones boatyard, Nanaimo We are back to work on the hard today and the boat will be in water again after this weekend. Regarding to the previous post about Ladysmith Maritime Society. We have some photos to present the place. One of a good place to stop by with reasonable price and the manager is great! Also this dock open for volunteers who have …
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May 11, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, boat communication, Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}, Ladysmith Maritime Society, off shore, On the hard, sailmail, Stones boatyard

Get the boat ready before offshore

Hi there! We are just arrived to Ladysmith today. This week we are arranging to  check  boat out and do the final preparations on Beautiful Swimmer before we go offshore into the Pacific Ocean.  Nanaimo and Ladysmith is our target place to get the boat ready.  Sources of Marine shop are here. Since we damaged the depth sounder transducer we have been trying to get …
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May 9, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, French Creek, Ladysmith Maritime Society, Nanaimo Harbour, Ocean passage, off shore

BC Passage | End of Wilderness

Greetings from French Creek, Vancouver Island  We just arrived at French creek this evening and stay at the Port Authority Dock at French Creek. {Strait of Georgia} Our passage diary from a few days ago: From Port Neville to Brown Bay Saturday 3rd May 2014 Port Neville There are two local man we met and talk at Port Neville. Ed and Kurt  share …
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May 6, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Adventure, Boat and Sailing, Brown Bay, Campbell River, Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}, French Creek, Johnstone Strait, Pacific cruising, Port Neville, S/V Beautiful Swimmer, Sailing, Seymour Narrows, Strait of Georgia, Vancouver Island

BC Passage | Queen Charlotte Strait – Johnstone Strait – Discovery Passage

Dear Readers and friends, Our passage has been continued from the North of Vancouver Island along Queen Charlotte Strait to Johnstone Strait and the recently down Discovery Passage. We are presently waiting our chance to run the famous Seymour Narrows and will leave as soon as we publish this report. This post to follow up the previous post. The weather is become a very big problem to do passage …
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May 4, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Adventure, Boat and Sailing, Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Port Hardy, Vancouver Island

Take a chance on bad weather forecast| Passage from Shearwater to Port Hardy

Greetings from Port Hardy, Vancouver Island This post to follow from the previous post. Tuesday 22 April 2014 (Shearwater Marina) Storm warning at Queen Charlotte Sound for some period of time. Next day… Shearwater Marina to Finn Bay, Penrose Island Wednesday 23 April 2014 Although storm warning in area of Queen Charlotte Sound is still on from coast guard radio. We decided to take a …
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April 26, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Adventure, B.C. Inside Passage, Bate Passage, Boat and Sailing, Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Cape Caution, Coastguard Radio, Finn Bay, Penrose Island, Pine Island, Port Hardy, Image, Queen Charlotte Sound, Queen Charlotte Strait, S/V Beautiful Swimmer

BC Inside Passage | From Klemtu To Bella Bella |Bella Bella To Shearwater Marina

Klemtu to Bella Bella  Wednesday 16 April 2014 Storm warning! Again At 10.30 a.m. We fuel at gas station, fill water and leave Klemtu at 10.50 a.m. with  5-6 k Low South West swell 2-3 metre. Wind south west 15 At 12.30 We motor sailed to Susan Rock at 7.6 k At  13.30 p.m. Passing Susan Rock 3.5 k Wind on nose and rain We arrived at …
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April 21, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Adventure, BC Inside Passage, Bella Bella, Boat and Sailing, Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Environment care, Video, S/V Beautiful Swimmer, Sailing, Shearwater Marina, Storm warning, Susan Rock, travel

BC Inside Passage |Pushing South from Bishop Bay to Klemtu

Bishop Bay to Klemtu Tuesday 15 April 2014 Gale Warning! Even though the  forecast was grim we  decided to see how far we could get.  If it got too bad we could always have a sleigh back to the hot springs. In April the weather in North Coast is still feel like winter. We left Bishop Bay at 7.30 a.m. while tide low and suddenly engine …
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April 20, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / BC Inside Passage, Bishop Bay, Boat and Sailing, Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Fraser Butedale Lake, Klemtu, travel

BC Inside Passage | From Hartley Bay to Bishop Bay

Hartley Bay to Bishop Bay Monday 14 April 2014 Today our morning coffee discussion is to leave Hartley Bay for Klemtu. Shortly after leaving Luksana ran over the only log in the ocean! Actually these waters are full of debris from the logging on the coast.  They lie with the wind and so are hard to see in the chop, especially in the early morning …
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April 20, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Adventure, BC Inside Passage, Bishop Bay, Boat and Sailing, Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Hot Springs, Image, Sailing, travel

Inside Passage | Departure PR Arrived Hartley Bay

Prince Rupert to Hartley Bay Saturday 12 April 2014 – At 06.35 am we untied from the dock we have headed out into a bright clear dawn for a while. There was little time to feel nostalgic, as we still had numerous tasks to perform and the  morning fog soon formed to envelope us in its cloak of  white ambiguity. When I started sailing Fog …
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April 19, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / BC Inside Passage, Boat and Sailing, Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Departure, prince rupert, travel

Sailing association ‘Sail Away’ Dock Party

Greetings  from Shearwater, BC Inside Passage  We have currently docked Beautiful Swimmer at Shearwater because free moorage and waiting for the gale to stop blowing from south.  For the past days we have collected some photos of scenery from the British Columbia’s Inside Passage,  both on a nice day and then cold rainy and windy days. The last 2 weeks have seen us say good bye …
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April 18, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Boat and Sailing, dock party, Golden Retrievers, North Coast Sailing Association, Gallery, prince rupert, Rushbrook Harbour, sailing association, Shearwater, the North Coast Sailing Association






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