This late summer represents the last chunk of time my brother will have over the next two years as he finishes up his Marine ROTC program at the University of Washington, where upon completion his time will be property of the USMC and not his own. This brings us to an incredible family trip to […]
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There Is No Ocean In The Desert
Picture provided by SeattlePI.com. Since there’s not much going on on the visible front for OAR Northwest until October – there is a bunch going on in the background, most definitely – I thought I would give some insight into who I am and what I’m doing while waiting to row the Atlantic Ocean. For […]
Seven thirty am was far too early to arrive on the water to float about at that most quintessential of northwest summer events: Seafair, with its culmination of its events: the hydroplane races and the Blue Angles. It was cloudy, cool and threatened drizzle. After three hours on the water with a scant sighting of […]
Rick exclaimed after a dinner of fish and chips at the “One Eyed Crab” that he would pay up to $200 to stay in a hotel that night. He only had to pay eighty and to the four of us the two double beds seemed to be acres of mattress compared to the boat. Morning […]
I will let Rick go into detail about seasickness, how to suffer and hopefully prevent it at a later blog. For the sake of narrative it picked up as we left Destruction Island. Nighttime on a small boat is a disorientating experience. Combined with the effects of the first few days of sea the mix, […]