The time came to fulfill a proposal Ryan Hashagen made to me when we first met some months before. He had given me a piece of string riddled with little knots, and a hand-drawn map of Puget Sound. When I decoded the message in the string (the knots were in Morse code!), the message was an invitation to dance on the water…to go vagabonding around the Salish Sea.
I’d responded in kind with my own messages, which were meant as a resounding Yes! to the idea. I used every tool at my disposal—semaphore flags, little maps with codexes, treasure buried on an island. In the following months, we built up an adventure repertoire on the rivers near us, running rapids in a canoe and building trust and a mutual language for bigger rambles we both felt were destined for our future.
We put our heads together and came up with a plan—to spend a few weeks rowing a small 15-1/2-foot dory around the inspiring wilds of the Salish Sea and its wooded archipelago. We’d push off from Anacortes, Washington and see where the tides and strength of our arms might take us.
The day of our departure was sunny and bright with a gentle breeze. I had some nerves to see how it felt to be on the sea in such a small, open boat. I wondered if the weather would hold, if the dory was too heavy to sustainably row for many days. The first day was a test on the open waters. We hightailed it across Rosario Strait, then worked our way around until settling at Lopez Island and Spencer Spit’s Marine Trails campsite. Making it here without mishap, we realized we could set our sights as ambitiously as we pleased.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September - October 2020 من Small Craft Advisor.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September - October 2020 من Small Craft Advisor.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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