Passage Back to the Pacific NW

March 17th, 2024 by Marilyn | Comments Off on Passage Back to the Pacific NW

Passage Back to the Pacific NW

Rainshadow has done another long passage, this time from Hawaii back to the Pacific Northwest. The most common question we get is, why sail her back across the North Pacific to where we already spent so many years cruising?


2016 Passage to Hawaii: Days 10-19

December 5th, 2016 by Marilyn | Comments Off on 2016 Passage to Hawaii: Days 10-19

2016 Passage to Hawaii: Days 10-19

At this point in the passage, we are in the Horse Latitudes – that is between 30-40 N. Exhaustion is really setting in, and we are not jovial.


2016 Passage to Hawaii – Days 0-9

November 21st, 2016 by Marilyn | Comments Off on 2016 Passage to Hawaii – Days 0-9

2016 Passage to Hawaii – Days 0-9

We finally did it! We made the “Left Turn” that sailors in Puget Sound talk about over beers with fellow sailors, and while sitting at home poring over old Pilot Charts and Jimmy Cornell’s World Cruising Routes. That “Left Turn” means we sailed to Neah Bay at the west end of the Strait of Juan […]


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