Their First Sailboat and the San Juan Islands

OK, so they didn't have a sailboat yet, but Craig had to make sure that Jannie was the adventurer he had hoped she would be. The San Juan Islands turned out to be a great test of the type of nautical nonsense Jannie would be up for. They took their car on the ferry out of Port Angeles, Washington to the port of Friday Harbor on the island of San Juan. It was May and the weather turned out to be beautiful.
SO the hotel Craig found on-line turned out to be a big disappointment since it advertised a hot tub. But when they checked in it seemed that it had a leak, and it takes weeks to get someone to come to the islands to fix anything so of course it wasn't working.
Oh well, off they went to check out the harbor, drooling over all the boats and wishing they had one. Next they drove around the whole island, walked around Roche Harbor Resort, hiking down to Wescott Bay and all around Posey Island State Park. The history of this island alone was awesome and of course with water everywhere you look there were boats, who could ask for more....
BY the time Craig and Jannie got home they were planning their next trip to the San Juan's in a boat of their own.
Craig didn't waste any time searching for the right boat and soon they were the proud owners of a 19' West Wight Potter. Their first excursion was to South Beach Marina in Newport, Oregon. There they sailed their new baby up the bay, getting used to the boat. Now keep in mind this was in December, and although Jannie loved boats too, camping in the cold was not her idea of a fun time. Actually being in the coastal winds was only better than being in the winds with pelting rain. Fortunately the weather that day was calm, and though the night was cold, they just buttoned up the hatch and snuggled in their sleeping bag. (Truthfully I doubt either got much sleep since the lapping of the water on the boat and the clanging of the sail lines going down the middle of the mast, and the halyards clanging on the mast kept Jannie awake, while Captain Craig's visions, sailing his majestic West Wight Potter, danced like visions of sailing dreams come true.) The next morning they pulled the boat out and went back to work in Corvallis. Yeah, they took their boat to the coast for an evening sail and drove it back to work the next day. There is a lot to be said about having a trailerable boat!!! (And according to Captain Craig, Jannie was being a great sport, camping with him on a cold December work night!)