{"id":36,"date":"2016-05-29T04:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T04:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.derwyn.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2017-11-10T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:41:03","slug":"san-juan-islands-spritzers-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derwyn.com\/blog\/san-juan-islands-spritzers-and-all\/","title":{"rendered":"San Juan Islands Spritzers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Leaving out of Bellingham with 29 knot winds, 3 foot swells, and a main sail that immediately unfurled to it’s full power, was an interesting way to start a trip. We headed out on a Hunter 44 named Whitehawk from San Juan Sailing<\/a>\u00a0as the storm and winds increased. Within the safe confines of the harbor we motored passed other charters that had decided to wait until morning to venture forth. Not us, there was no time to waste and we were knowledgable, rugged northwestern sailors full of confidence and stupidity.<\/p>\n

The ominous start rattled us as we rolled into Sucia Island full of ginger candy, Dramamine, and an overall sense of oh shit. \u00a0It was June in the Northwest and good weather was questionable at best. But that didn’t stop our short memories from thinking that we had served our time after months of previous bad weather and deserved an early start to summer. \u00a0Our brains had clearly been saturated.<\/p>\n