The Adventures of Shatoosh and Pashmina

Shatoosh, an Albin 25 HN 1124, and Pashmina, a 9 foot Porta Bote have cruised over 8,500nm on 70 navigable waterways in the California Delta, the Columbia, Snake, Willamette Rivers and the Salish Sea of Washington and British Columbia. In 2011 they crossed the Columbia River bar to cruise the Washington coast and in 2012 they replicated Peter Puget's 1792 exploration of the southern waters of Puget Sound. In 2015 and 2016 the boats were sold. In 2018 Shatoosh was sold again and is in AZ.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Winter Projects: Mine and Others

Albin owners are busy with their winter projects and since returning from Texas I have made one trip to Shatoosh and Pashmina. They have weathered my long absence well, but needed a good scrubbing. The marina is getting a good, but overdue dredging, so boats and docks have been moved about and hopefully, I can make an outing within the next few days, as the weather looks promising.

I have been helping some Albin boaters with their projects; John in Georgia is now well into building his hardtop, which is looking good, Anton is re-powering his engine with a Volvo MD2030 B, like Shatoosh's, so I was photographing the engine the other day, and today I sent off a tracing of my swim platform for Nick in Illinois.

I will need to get Pashmina's Impresa to the graphic guy in Olympia, so she can have a new look. There is a lot of routine maintenance on the upcoming docket, all of which will keep me busy.