Rainshadow is a Nicholson 38 ketch built by Camper & Nicholsons in 1974. This web site will chronicle Rainshadow’s adventures with her owners (sic), Van and Marilyn.
[Editor’s note: Any boat owner can tell you, the boat owns the people, not the other way around. The boat “owner” exists to tend to the needs of the boat.]
Where is Rainshadow now?
Rainshadow no longer has an actual homeport, though officially on the USCG documentation it is Seattle. We sailed her from Hilo Hawaii to Washington state in June 2023. Our plan is to cruise the Pacific Northwest in the summer, then leave her on the hard for the winter when we go back to our land home in Hawaii.
You can read Van’s blog roll of our recent passage and current cruising here. Before 2016, we used a Tumblr site to post where Rainshadow had taken us. But that is no longer supported, so we don’t use it any more.
Marilyn wrote a book?
After sailing for 6 years along the British Columbia coast and beyond, Marilyn wrote Taken By The Wind: The Northwest Coast to share all they had learned about weather and sailing in that area. You can find it on Amazon