There is nothing like The Pacific Northwest cruising. We left crowded, rainy Vancouver 25 years ago for sunny Florida, and although we love the daily dose of Vitamin D here, we miss the abundance of seafood, the honey cured salmon, and the magical sunsets ! Keep up the great videos !

Elizabeth, you are so lucky to have Shawn, with his incredible engineering skills and ability to do all that is necessary on your boat, with you, of course, keeping everything clean and in working order -- so important, I am sure, for safety and just living in a nice, organized, clean space, not to forget keeping costs down by maintaining the boat.

"Prop shaft line cutter" on my Minesweeper in the 70s, we had a cable we deployed with kites to take them out behind the ship to cut the cable of moored mines. It had a cable cutter that had a trigger in the jaws & a .45 caliber shell that closed the cutter, cutting the cable & allowing the mine to float to the surface where we shot it with a MA deuce .50 caliber

As an old retired tug boat shipper moving big barges , cargo ships ,& aircraft carriers around I have had a few problems with pleasure crafts cutting me off or just getting in the way. The rule is, "TONNAGE has the right of way." It takes a modern aircraft carrier moving at 35 knots 7 to 8 miles just to come to a stop ! I think you get the drift. No pun intended. I do enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.👍

Thank you for not having ALL those annoying commercials popping up on your Blogs.

Happy Sunday All! What an awesome sunrise we're allowed to see there. Thanks for sharing ❤️

Shawn and Elizabeth it’s fun to use one’s hard earned training and skills. Master Captaincy make a huge difference in your decision-making around safety. Great training.

My cousin, a friend of mine, and I have hiked the Dungeness Spit out to the light house. Took some photos, just had my phone then. My cousin had his nicer camera. Was about 12 years ago, I believe. I love that part of Washington and I try to go up there whenever I can. Went kayaking in Crescent Lake last September, was amazing. My grandparents lived outside of Port Townsend when I was growing up, would visit them every Summer for a couple weeks, was a blast up there.

I love your videos! Regarding the ferries and the rules of the road, it’s possible that they fall within one the priority classifications of either being “Restricted by their ability to maneuver (RAM)” or “Constrained by draft (CBD)”. Keep up the good work and I look forward to your resuming the videos and seeing what projects and upgrades you are planning! Cheers!

this is the best video on your channel.. 👍

This one of your best videos! Great storyline, music, narration. Keep up the great work!

Very enjoyable! Love your choice of tunes and editing is seamless. Food looks great too. I feel like I just took a trip on Sunday morning. Nice work.

My feeling on encounter with a ferry has always been the same.... treat it like a taxi on land, they have a schedule to keep and I'm just cruising...I give them room and don't really expect any radio courtesy although it would be nice. Pick your battles. You two are awesome love your channel

Shawn looks like he is in his element when he has something to fix...

Love your channel and it lets me re-live my cruising of Puget Sound when my kids were young. About the ferries and right of way - some background on how a ferry captain thinks. Not a justification for violating rules, I just mention this so you can know your "adversary", so to speak. Just 20 or so years ago, there were still ferries in service on Puget Sound that did not have wheelhouse control. That is, the engine control back then was still via "telegraph". The captain in the pilot house sent a signal to the engineer in the engine room and the forward-reverse and power was adjusted accordingly. Of course, this involved quite a time lag. Some of the ferry captains today grew up in this era. Even the old ferries that were modernized by retrofit with wheelhouse control were a bit sketch. The old timers will remember the Issaquah Class ferries, and Ross-Hill controls on the Super Class. Both had engine control systems cobbled together in someone's garage - a la Steve Jobs and Wozniak in the early days of Apple. Move the throttle position too fast on an Issaquah and the controls were programmed to shut down the engine. This prevented damage to the engine, but was frightening on final approach to a ferry dock - where you had to maintain enough speed for steerage in a cross wind or cross current, but also needed the engine to be able to back down at the last minute for landing. To keep things stone simple, reliable and easy (cheap) to maintain, Washington State's ferries had no thrusters. Some of the ferries were diesel-electric, with the ability to apply 100% torque to the propellers at zero rpm. The Issaquah Class had changeable-pitch propellers that could be feathered to control speed with direct drive to diesel propulsion. But in both cases, you were steering with a rudder - and on some ferries, it had to be locked in place on the "front" end. You could not steer both ends of the boat. So while the right of way is the right of way, I can imagine some old time ferry captains, knowing their vessel's limitations, decided a long ago they will take the initiative and let the pleasure boat captains "deal with it", especially when close to landing at the dock. If you have been on a ferry docking at Friday Harbor, Lopez or Edmonds during adverse weather and tides, you will understand. They are also looking at their master's license vis-a-vis the safety of the hundreds, if not thousands of souls aboard. Ditto for ferries in other parts of the country. Over the years, I've worked with many of the ferry captains in North America, and docking at the Whitehall ferry terminal in New York where the Staten Island Ferry docks at the south end of Manhattan (where the East River meets the Hudson River) can be one tough place to dock. NYC did put Voith-Schneider into some of their boats, but later regretted it because it was too "complex" and required service techs from Germany. At least the city's bean counters regretted it, I don't think the captains did. I also have a vague memory of special rules for ferries on final approach to the dock - as in the final 1000 yards. Plus, the ferries have a security zone around them, as I recall. I believe you cannot approach the ferry or ferry terminal within a certain distance due to 9-11 security. Not sure if my memory is foggy, but it might be worth checking the Notice to Mariners, were some of the obscure rules get posted.

Spectacular scenery! Hard to replicate those Great NW looks…. When the weather co-ops!! 😎

Love the Q+A section - always worth watching. Thanks guys!

In my 50 years of boating on Puget Sound and northern waters, I have never once seen a Washington State Ferry give way to a pleasure craft. Even though the COLREGS may view you as both motorized vessels without maneuverability restrictions, you should just treat it as a rule (and common sense) that you are ALWAYS the give-way vessel when it comes to ferries.

When you threw in the clip “ Bueller “ you cracked me up, I couldn’t stop laughing!

Loved the drone shots. Beautiful

Thanks for another great video. My guess is that a perfect day like yours come all to seldom. So enjoy.

Sailing 101, the smaller, more manuverable vessel is the give way vessel. The big boys have the ROW.

Shawn likes things to be right, so Dungeness is in the English Channel. Beautiful scenery there👍

Shawn is going to do projects all the time;) Truly beautiful extended moment. What a great vid.

Hi guys We are missing your next video. We enjoy them very much. John and Janet in France.

I can see a lot of the Olympic mountain range across the St. of JDF out my window.Viewing from southwest Vancouver Island.

Great analogy ("Think of your house moving 2x week...earthquake"), very apt.

Question: Does Mr. Sully know how lucky he is to have Shawn an Elizabeth as his servants? Beautiful scenery!

Seriously, Sully ALWAYS looks like he's having the time of his life!

A pleasure vessel that has been issued a Certificate of Documentation with a recreational endorsement and is operated only for pleasure pursuant to 46 U.S.C. 12109 must yield to commercial vessels participating in VTS. Pleasure craft, even vessels under sail, do not have right-of-way over VTS participant vessels and must not impede commercial vessels in any way. All Washington State Ferries are VTS participant vessels, as are all powered vessels over 40M.

Nice video. You’ve left us hanging on two issues, the parade collision and the table. How about an update?

An amazing spot!

NICE VIDEO, KINDA MAKES UP FOR ALL THE RAIN. PNW IS HARD TO BEAT WHEN THE SUN IS OUT IN ALL IT'S GLORY. I THOUGHT LONG BEACH, WA. WAS THE LONGEST SPIT?

A wise person once observed, “Everything on your boat is broken - you just don’t know it yet.” And the games continue!

Red sky in morning…….did you next head into Sequim Bay? As many times as I have passed the Spit I have never anchored there. I have been tempted to anchor in Dungeness Bay (we have a shallow draft) but so far, well let’s just say, I have had the courage at the right time. But Sequim Bay is another story and no, John Wayne Marina, is not the only choice there. Besides just anchoring south of the Marina in a lovely cove. In addition there is the State Park and other delightful anchorages throughout the bay. Enjoy! I know you have the 40 but the 46 is my dream boat. Almost bought one in SD but it needed so much work. Oh well there will be others.

Great video. Thanks. Sea grass, UGH. I've had to many clogged intakes in my lifetime.

Very nice video Shawn and Elizabeth…, it might be my favorite one yet… just the combination of the boating suggestions and beautiful surroundings plus the fun interactions between you two… made it really great! 🛥

Good Sunday to you.

Always a wonderful adventure! Now, I want to see a catch and cook! Hell, even a dungeness!

Hope all is well with you and yours and looking forward to a possible return of your wonderful weekly videos. Take care and God Bless.

I'm a complete noob, but does this apply to the situation with container ships? I saw this in a "Who has the right of way guide" Rule number 9 - Narrow Channels, Inland states that: "(b) A vessel of less than 20 meters [65 feet] in length or a sailing vessel shall not impede the passage of a vessel that can safely navigate only within a narrow channel or fairway.

I hope all is well. Hope to hear from you soon

Amazing landscape.. lucky dog :-)

MV Freedom stumbled onto your channel while doing my research on Nordhavn's. Just to let you we bought our 42 ' Cascade out of the same marina that you berth Freedom at back in 2000. We spent a week getting her ready and then sailed to HI. Spent the night at Port T, Port A and 2 nights at Negh Bay around the corner then to Astoria, New Port and on to Eureka, CA. Topped off fuel, water bagels, scotch and 17 days 6 hours later pulled into Honolulu. The day I bought the sailboat was the first time I was ever on a sailboat. A week later started a blue water crossing. Pegasus has been to every island in HI except the big island. Now looking for a Nordhavn. Love the channel. This is Dennis not Linda

'Oh shit, shes crying again, i better get my tools and fix something.' 'Don't worry honey, its only the flat calm, and the sunset, and the sunrise etc' 'Riiiight'

There is NO CRYING IN BOATING😊

Wha?? Has Anyone seen MV Freedom and its Crew..Where are you two??..We miss you .Hopefully soon we all get too see new content

Hey MV Freedom! Might need some clarity on vessel right of way. For power boats, ability to maneuver and commercial vs pleasure boat seem to be very important. I recall in locks commercial boats seem to alway have the right-of-way. Any clarification you can give to us would be very helpful. Cheers!

I guessed right. I think I should get Shawn's Buoy hat as a reward 😂

How about a short bit on using your drone. Pictures are spectacular.

Great video MV Freedom. Really enjoyed it, and the beauty of the area.

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing. We have a friend who lives on Vancouver Island, near Shirley. We are in Florida and flew to see her place just before the pandemic. Getting to explore some of Vancouver Island with someone who lives there was fantastic. Their house was on a cliff overlooking the strait. Your photography is great and makes us feel as we are right there with you. Enjoy and stay safe.

Thanks for the delightful ride along.

Glad you guys finally got to the spit, it is a fun place. It's pretty comfortable there if you need to duck in out of a west wind in the strait because there is no fetch in the anchorage. The wind may blast you but there is basically no wave action. It would be a safe place for you to practice anchoring in 25 knots of wind.

Another great video thank you love the birds

“Sullymander” 💙 and those mountains in the distance…💓

At the end of this video...yep, I cried.

Wow. Amazing place.. great video .

Everybody here gives the ferry the right of way. Common courtesy

FYI there is a Dungeness in the UK (kent coast in the English channel) lovely beach near it camber sands.

Great background 🎼🎼in the blog.

That was outstanding! Thank you from Port Angeles!!

Love the Video’s of the PNW .

Have you ever anchored up the peninsula at Salt Creek - Crescent Beach? We were camping there the same days you were at Dungeness, enjoying the same sunsets. That area is also a marine park.

Yielding the right of way to a WSF is just common sense. We all hate to share the road with semi trucks as well, but only a fool would get in the way. That being said, love your videos.

I hiked all the way to the lighthouse with my scout troop once. It's 5.5 miles each way. There is always somebody out there, I think mostly volunteers who stay there for a week at a time. I was surprised to see a grass lawn around it.

You guys do such an amazing job with your videos. We love them, always interesting and never boring. Many thanks and have a fantabulous week yourselves😎🐾⚓🦘

Good episode. Weather cooperated and some crystal 🔮 clear images. Sunset 🌇and sunrise 🌅 were truly spectacular. Thank you.

When Shaun was fixing the outboard steering and Elizabeth called for him, she started to say for the love of... and didn't finish. I'm sure she meant: "for the love of boating" :)

Currently at the Perry Hotel thanks to your recommendation. Thanks so much we love it here in the Keys! Also love your channel Ty

Beautiful Eagles! I love Eagles, and am happy to say we have several pair here in our area of Ohio! Fantastic video as always... Safe & Fun travels! John / Ohio

How I like to explain the constant repair projects, “ This boat is just not our floating condo, but it also our cars, two engines to maintain..It’s the boat life!”

There is that”Good Ship Freedom” !!

Wanted to thank you guys so picked your latest vid. After watching your vid. on Alderbrook I was very interested since we had a charter booked. We are here now and this place is great.From the dock staff to the hotel. The dock staff even pumped us out I did not get my hands dirty !! Long way down here from Port Ludlow !

Duty before pleasure. That’s the rule. Keep away from large vessels.

Always glad to see you guys! The ferries here in SF Bay are flying so we just avoid them at all cost.

Hi Elizabeth, I understand what you said but you might want to fact check that. Commercial Vessels Always have right of way. Size and maneuverability determine right of way. Never think you have the right of WAY and Way is the important word. The rule is all about the ability to alter course and speed. I love you two, be safe.

Great video.

Always projects is the best perspective I've heard and love them. Keep Boating

‘ Movin and Shakin’ …sums it up nicely

excellent video thank you

You guys got it goin’ on…new adventures coming soon. :) Good episode. Enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing Life is good~

The original Dungeness is a beach some 12 sq. miles in S.E. England, mostly made of pebbles... the fishing is great there btw.

Outstanding video. I love the Q & A segment. Thank you.

Great video you guys, what beautiful scenery!

What a wonderful video, and no, I would not rather be cutting grass!

Amazing place ! the views and landscapes are stunning . Coincidentally one of my favourite places in the UK is the original Dungeness beach in East Sussex . A wild beautiful place that is Europes only natural desert !! .

We have one of these at the top of the south island - looks similar - just warmer.... Great walk (about 26 km long). Called Farewell Spit.

What a lovely anchorage!

Ya'll been at this now pretty much every week for quite some time. Hopefully it's just time for a break. See you soon? Maybe?

So PROUD of that distinction that the PNW need that..... from extinction to get it off the list. Proud living in the PNW 42 yrs. yes I’m old...lol

I’ve been the the UK Dungeness just today! It’s actually on the coast of a body of water called the English Channel. Interesting fact it’s also the only designated area of desert in the UK!

FYI In Toronto Canada, ferries are on fixed routes and have right of way over all other vessels

I'd rather be doing boat maintenance than fixing the house all the time. Unfortunately I can only afford the house. Stay safe out there.

Crab in Ell grass, trap area for sure !

I know it's upsetting in those circumstances when vessels meeting other vessels due to safety. Intentions should be shared between vessels always. But, commercial vessels have the right away over pleasure craft.

the west shore of the spit is open to hikers all the way to the lighthouse, but there are restrictions. it's illegal to hike above the high tide line, and it's illegal to continue past the lighthouse. the rest of the spit is wildlife preserve and is off-limits. there used to be a dock on the east side at the lighthouse next to the helipad but it was removed years ago and it's now illegal to land a boat on the east side of the lighthouse, however you can go all the way around the spit and land on the west side, no dock however... but kayakers do it all the time. the lighthouse is staffed year-round with volunteers who give tours of the lighthouse and you can walk around the fenced area, there are picnic tables on the site as well.

Washington State Ferry System, educate your pilots on the rules of the road and make sure they comply.

18:48 This time of year around the Olympics is hard to beat.

What a beautiful anchorage you had in Dungeness Bay. Elizabeth, you sure do a great job with your make up, and those eyes! Question for Shawn: you have spoken about a secondary motor that could get you to safety should the main engine go dow. Could you explain just how that system works on an upcoming Q&A?