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Alaska, United States
I am owned by Pauline and Mark Blasky. My hull was built at the Duncan Marine Yard in Taiwan and launched in Dec of 1980. It is a William Garden design based on the Pixie Design and called by Duncan Marine a Freedom 45. They are the fourth owners and have owned me the longest. They have done extensive refitting to me including replacing my entire deck structure and rig. My masts are roughly 10% taller than original and now are made of aluminium as opposed to the original wood ones, which, though pretty, were always problematic. You can read more about me under "MORE ABOUT SARI TIMUR"

October 29, 2019

On Our Way to Singapore

We leave in a few minutes toward Singapore.  We will stop in San Francisco for a couple of nights each way to meet up with friends.  Leaving Sari Timur in the hands of friends to watch over her while we are away.

October 19, 2019

Alaska Day

Yesterday was Alaska Day.  This is the day that commemorates the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the USA.  This is an especially big event in Sitka as this was the transfer site and the capital at the time.

Our morning started off by delivering a pot of chili for the chili cook off that the local Knights of Columbus was running.  We arrived to find that though the chilies were showing up there was a lack of volunteers to help get it all started.  So we pushed up our sleeves and set about helping to get things ready.  We then volunteered on the serving line until just before the parade started.

Our friends from Ruby Slippers and us quickly ran off to catch the start of the parade.  It is always fun to watch a small town parade as everyone seems to get into it.  On our particular corner there was only one kid and as the processions past and the candy was flying we all jumped in to help fill his bag.  He was so excited by how much candy he got that he gave Pauline a great big hug at the end of the parade.

After the parade we went up to castle hill to watch the reenactment of the transfer ceremony.  About halfway through it started to rain but soon the sun popped out and there was a beautiful rainbow over the town.

From Castle Hill we had a good view of the Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue exhibition taking place in the harbor.  Once again the rain started but we figured we were better off than the victim and rescue swimmer who had to jump out of the helicopter into the water.

Afterward we went back to the church to help with the clean up and found out that Mark had won honorable mention  in the chili cook off which is the same thing as fourth place and so he got a ribbon.  Not bad as there was 15 types of chili in the cook off and all of them were good!




October 14, 2019

Sitka

We are settling into Sitka life nicely.  We joined a water aerobics class three times a week.  And a local gym.  The gym used to be part of the college here before it closed down.  So has a nice basketball court.  Mark figures it has been about thirty years since he shot baskets but had fun trying to make it through the hoop.

There always seems to be something happening.  Even walking to our boat we have to pass the fishing fleet and they are often selling shrimps or crabs.  We got these two tasty ones for ten bucks a piece.  They are Dungeness Crab which are some of the smaller crabs in Alaska but they sure dwarf the Sri Lankan crabs we used to get in Singapore and have a lot of meat on them.  It is hard to tell the size from the picture but remember how large Mark's hands are when you try to get some kind of scale.  The big thing is we could only fit one at a time into our huge wok.



October 7, 2019

We Are Back In Sitka

We made it back to Sitka.  We traveled the same distance in 10 days that took us three months with Sari Timur.  We had a great trip, both times.  Our only regret is we couldn't take longer on each trip!

October 2, 2019

We are in Haines

We made it to Haines.  The visit in Seward was too short and we didn't see everyone but it was great to catch up with those we did.

The car battery was dead when we went to pick up the car but Glen and Sandy had a charger and while we ate fresh baked cookies, we let it charge.  On Monday we had the car serviced and we also asked for a battery check,  The check came back good so we figure something just drained it in the 3 over months it lay dormant.

Our trip reminded us why we have fallen in love with Alaska.  Not only was the scenery fantastic but we got to see a young moose, a black bear sow and her cub as well.  Not bad for two days of driving!