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.


Tuesday, May 6, 2014

WOW - We have joined a comunity and other changes in the past couple days.

We keep feeling like we have a moment to rest and then a new email comes with word of another step coming sooner than we expected. Today we were "casually" lining up a captain to move the boat from her current berth to ship-side with the expectation that she would need to be moved sometime next week.  The captain's cell phone dropped the call and before I could get back to him I got an email from the shipping company that Salish Aire needs to be ready to sling aboard the freighter on Saturday.  Back to high gear to get customs brokers lined up, the captain paid, fuel in the boat, final payment to the shipper, etc, etc..

I did take a minute to think about our new "family" today.  We knew that there was a strong sense of community among Nordhavn owners but the reality is beginning to sink in. We had some in's to start with.  The owner of the house we are borrowing is a long time friend who owned one of the first Ranger Tug 25s.  Since our Rosborough was a similar design and we have similar interests we joined the early Ranger Tug rendezvous here in Puget Sound.  Our friend and his wife had been primary organizers of one rendezvous and introduced us to the owners of a Ranger 29. Those folks have now moved up and own Nordhavn "Salish Rover". Then our friends decided to move up to a Ranger 29 themselves and bought their current boat from the owners of N40 "Hayden Bay" who we met at the Seattle Boat show.

From this beginning we have added an amazing number of folks who have contacted us after our announcement on  the Nordhavn Dreamers and Owners sites that we are now owners (including the past two owners of Salish Aire) with kind words and offers of help wherever we happen to be in need of advice, good conversation, or help.

We also want to express our deepest appreciation for all of the time, words of encouragement, and just plain kindness of our broker Don Kohlmann.  He has really gone above and beyond to help us make this a reality and we look forward to having him as a friend rather than a business associate.

Norman and Clarice


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