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The Spruce Production Division

Posted on 06/15/202506/16/2025 by Jim Farrell

In 1914 Europe exploded into what was called the “War to end all wars”, which the USA had tried to stay out of.  The war saw the introduction of many new weapons such as the use of ‘Airoplanes’, which required using light flexible wood for the frames.  The best wood to use was from Spruce…

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Lorine (Mom) Pursley Farrell

Posted on 05/11/2025 by Jim Farrell

By Jim Farrell On May 3, 2022, she would have been100 years-old, an age she wanted to achieve, but she died three and a half years ago.  This lady was raised in the logging camps of the Olympic Peninsula, on the “west end”, where the only way to even reach Port Angeles, WA was by…

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Tongue Point

Posted on 03/15/2025 by Jim Farrell

An Encampment, Naval Base, Coast Guard Station, Lighthouse Service, and Safe Haven Learning to sail on the Columbia River has given many generations of NW sailors the skills and confidence to cross the Columbia River Bar and head north, south or even west.  Here is where we’ve learned about the Rules of the road; Red…

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Beautiful River or Moncacht-Ape’

Posted on 02/12/202502/13/2025 by Jim Farrell

(Man who Kills Difficulties or Fatigues) They say that the progression of a sailor is from sailboat, to powerboat, to motorhome, to nursing home and finally to funeral home.  Alas, Becky and I have phased from sailboat straight to a motor home (class B, as in van conversion), mainly after cruising our Pacific Northwest waters…

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Port Neville, A historical Port in a Storm

Posted on 02/02/202502/02/2025 by Jim Farrell

(Given the current administration of our country and the chaos not only here in the US, but even how it now affects our northern neighbors, maybe it’s time to look back to a time the Canadians welcomed us into their lives). Editor Every trip through the Inside Passage going to and from SE Alaska is…

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