Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Coupeville to Everett August 2nd, 2008




We left Coupeville and made our way to Everett. We had planned to stop in Langley, but it was a negative low tide and when we arrived there, there were boats on their sides left high and dry. We did not want to try and enter the tight small marina and decided to head to Everett Washington. Everett is the largest pleasure craft harbor on the west coast after Marina Del Rey. There is a yacht club in Everett, the Everett Yacht Club and they had space for us so we tied up and met the dock master, his wife Adele and their cat Obsidia! Yacht clubs are a great deal for us, it was $5.00 for electricity to stay at the Everett Yacht Club. All along the water has been smooth and the weather fair and the only concern has been watching the tide when in small channels. Everett was interesting in the area around the marina is in transition and becoming more upscale. They had a fantastic chandlery, Harbor Marine, that was the size of a home depot, it was simply amazing and we could have spent hours wandering through all the isles. The breakwater channel that leads to the marina is also the outflow of the river and there is a pretty good current about 3 knots on an ebb (outgoing tide).

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