Moving on to Seattle from Santa Barbara.

Time marches on and I have to pull up stakes.  Leaving Santa Barbara after 7 years with great sailing and great wet Wednesday races.  It will be sad to leave this beautiful spot.

But new waters in the Seattle region should be great.  Now there is a chance to sail with other flying fifteens.  We drove up the I-5 through Shasta just in time for some serious weather.  The day before we came through Eugene an ice storm blanketed the area.  Look closely at that fence!  So much to do but got to get ready for the Spring sailing. 

From the Santa Barbara Yacht club         

On the road north near Gaviota

Cars stopped for hours in the southern Oregon. 

Ice storm hit on bridge

Braving the cold.

Look at the chain links covered in ice.

She gets a bath soon.  

Bailer

It was with great hesitation that I would ever put holes through the hull but I have epoxied in place some 1.5" brass rings that are threaded internally.  Through that I am trying some different designs.  The first is a siphon nozzle.  The valve was extracted from a garden water faucet soldered to another brass threaded mount that fits the hull ring.  So far it works unless I forget to put them in before launch.  When they run it sounds like an espresso machine screaming away.