Author: Jeffrey

Jeffrey just finished adding a new touch to the website. Live Chat. Whenever either Jeffrey or myself is at the computer we’ll be logged into to answer questions you might have about any or our cruises. We hope to hear from you soon! You can can log into our Live Chat on our website http://www.northwestnavigation.com/site/

Last night we launched our new website. We redesigned the website to make it easier to for you to find information about our cruises and to see what it is like to cruise with us aboard the David B. We have a new photo gallery with pictures from most of our cruises from the last 3-years. All of our pictures are clickable so you can have a better look.

In the next few weeks we will be adding new pages and a couple of new videos produced by one of our passengers, Terry Richard. I hope you enjoy the new website as much as we do.

We are often asked what we do in the off-season. Do we take the winter off and go some place warm? Do we spend our winters reading books and sleeping in? While we might do some skiing at Mt. Baker and Whistler the answers are, that we mostly do work on the boat. We do this to make sure the David B is even better next year than it was this year.

Through out the summer months Jeffrey and I write down ideas and projects that we would like to do during the off-season. Now is time of year that we look over the list and decide what we are going to do. This winter looks to be filled with sanding, painting and varnishing, as well as, a new pump to clean mud off the anchor chain as it goes in to the anchor chain locker. Over the next few months I’ll be looking forward to sharing with you and reporting in on how things are shaping up with the Winter List. To both Jeffrey and I it is a very satisfying time of year where we really get to make the David B shine.

We just finished up the 2008 cruising season on the David B in the San Juan Islands. October in the islands is my favorite time of year. It is quiet, fewer people are around, and the solitude of our anchorages provides for a unique get-away in a popular destination. Fall in the San Juans has a different feeling. The air is crisp with the smell of fallen leaves and salt water. It is a time where we might be the only ones visiting Sucia or Jones Island and it is a pleasure to share that solidtude with others on the David B.

A couple weeks ago we received the greatest gift yet– a photo of the boat taken in 1929. Looking at the people on the deck, I’d say it’s either the launching day or a day that they did sea-trials for the first time.

Isn’t she pretty..