What's in her name?

What's in her name (Salish Aire)?

Salish from her new home the Salish Sea

Aire as in a melody of song.

Salish + Aire = The melody of the Salish Sea.

Salish Sea:
In the late 1700's Captain George Vancouver wandered around the waters of what are now known as British Columbia, Canada and Washington State, USA. He did the usual 1700's explorer thing and put names he chose on everything he saw. The names stuck and are recognized and used to this day.

New lines were added to Captain Vancouver's charts in 1872 (after a near war with Great Britain over a pig) which made waters on one side of the line Canadian and those on the other side of the line American.

It wasn't until 1988 (officiated in 2009) that someone finally realized that fish and various critters, (to say nothing of the water itself) were never involved in the boundary treaties and really ignored them completely. (This is best illustrated by the problems that Homeland Security has with Canadian Canada Geese and American Canadian Geese - it seems they refuse to carry passports and have been known to poop on the head of any border patrol person who tries to challenge their right to cross the border when and where they choose!) In reality the waters from Olympia to the well up the East side of Vancouver Island are pretty much one ecosystem.

The Coast Salish are the indigenous peoples who live in southwest British Columbia and northwest Washington state along the Salish Sea and share a common linguistic and cultural origin. The Salish Sea is named in honor of the earliest recorded peoples who plied her waters and learned to live in harmony with her.


Sunday, April 27, 2014

Waiting Patiently?????

I suppose a blog needs to start someplace so now may be as good a time as any (although I have a superstitious fear of having something go wrong if I sound to excited and anger the sea spirits).  So the present state of affairs is:
  • Sea Meadow (our Rosborough RF 246) remains unsold and looking for a buyer but she is OK sitting on her trailer in our friends driveway
  • We expect to close two house deals within the next 3 days and be officially "homeless" for the first time in many many years
  • We are currently very comfortable in our friends' house in Marysville as they are our doing the Great Loop on their Ranger 29
  • We hope to have a closing date set for Phantom (soon to be Salish Aire if all goes well) as soon as we clear the money from the houses and get the last two pieces of paperwork to the finance company.
  • The next step will be confirming a berth on a freighter so she can come through the Panama Canal from her current home in Florida to her new home in Everett. 
  • For those who haven't tried to finance a live-aboard boat in the past 3 months or so - the market is in total disarray with new federal regulations going into effect.  Currently Essex Credit is the only company willing to jump through all of the hurdles.  If you plan to finance a live-aboard we suggest including the birth certificate of your first born in your paperwork (just kidding Erin).
  • The Port of Everett seems very eager to have our business in their very nice recently completed marina which is just about 3 miles by road (1/2 mile as the crow flies) from my (Norman's) employer.  We are making backup plans for Clarice's internet needs for her to continue working from home (AKA the pilothouse of the boat).

Enough for now.
Norman and Clarice
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