Tomorrow I (we) embark on a week long Cruise and Learn from Nanaimo Yacht Charters to try and obtain our basic and intermediate powerboat certification as well as our coastal navigation certification. We will board a Bayliner 3288 Saturday and disembark a week later. The goal is to get all of our paperwork, on water training and experience in order to charter a boat later this summer and explore the coast. After this week all I should need is to pick upo my Marine Operators VHF certificate sometime in May. Medium to long range we want to add the sailing components as well but I will see how the week goes.

As a result the “It’s Novel” thread will halt until Sunday May 5. I will do daily posts, but I won’t promise to post them daily; you might have to wait until we make port somewhere with a good connection. In the mean time, just imagine me sitting in this chair, doing math in my head: