Walking docks is always interesting. Time permitting, we would do it much more often.
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On this day, Auke Bay offered a display of different views and life styles. Suzanne was. as always, happy to find her former gill netter, the Sumac, now home-ported in Gig Harbor, but formerly in Halibut Cove, rafted up temporarily.
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The Sea Ranger is a Project Boat in the most demanding sense. Now converted for touring, it seems, it is in a refurbishment mode that must be extremely high effort. The wooden hull is engraved with Plimsoll lines.
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The outer floats seem to constitute a different and wealthier country (and indeed, the registrations are usually with more forgiving nations). Big, beautiful, manicured and buffed ships with professional crews hang out here, waiting for owners to jet in.
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Nearer the gangway is real life on the water, and here two dogs take shore leave in a kayak. Embarking (so to speak) and disembarking look interesting.
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Seen from the outermost float, Auke Bay's sky and water offer a dynamic study in grays.
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Finally, less aesthetic than the yachts moored at the dock is the anchored Elysian, with its "modern" lines. It was built in 2014 in Bremen by the Lurssen shipyard famous for very big and very expensive superyachts (think oligarchs). For those keeping track, Lurssen also built the Scheherazade, 459 feet loa. Following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine the Scheherazade was seized because it is reputedly owned by V. Putin.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.