Voyages

I bought Swift in 2007. I'd had a Yamaha 25 in Guam. She is a perfect boat for the river. Fairly shallow draft and really easy to handle around the docks. I could overnight in tiny backwaters that no larger boat could access.

Sofie expresses her confidence in our piloting

We had lots of trips into the city

The 15 miles to downtown on this smaller boat meant they were usually over night trips

This is the public dock just below the Burnside Bridge. The cherry trees over the sea wall were a gift from Japan in the 1920's

There is a lot to see along the Willamette River in Portland.

This is the Palantine Pump Station - built to draw drinking water in the 1880's. The steam boilers exploded a more than a hundred years ago and now the upper sections are a private home. There are some ghost stories around this property, including a tale of the missing head

Circumnavigating Sauvie Island was a four day trip on Swift. She was small, slow and tidy. Easy to anchor or tie off just about anywhere outside the channel

She had a propane camp stove and carried 9.5 gallons of cold water with a handpump. The port-a-potty was the height of luxury on cold mornings. She could provide fried eggs and hot coffee