The Western Star

This is the voyage of the Western Star and our adventures nautically and photographically as her crew.  In April, 2008,  we took on the stewardship of a 42 foot Tayana Trawler built in 1976.

We had been searching more than  a year for the perfect vessel for "the plan": move onto a boat and cruise up and down the Inside Passage between the San Juan Islands in Washington and Alaska.  The list of must-haves we wanted for our home afloat was extensive.  Ironically, she had very few of the listed necessities. We stepped up into the pilothouse and knew this was going to be our boat. And the longer we have her, the more we know she truly is the right match for us.

Our crew is Capt. Rich; a 30+ year veteran of boating and sailing, Mrs Capt; that would be me, Commodore Bean; aka Cootie Garbonzo our 17 lb cat and Tinkerbelle; the baby cat.  The cats have no real assigned duties other than to shed as much as possible, demand attention and sleep where ever they please.   Rich and I took instruction re: steering, docking, being under way, etc and so far we are successfully getting better (and calmer) everytime we practice.

Two weeks ago, we moved the Western Star to covered moorage and began the projects we want to complete before our anticipated departure this spring.  I'll keep you posted.   IES

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