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The Long Way

We were walking down the dock at Schoonmaker Point Marina in Sausalito when Colin Cashmore of the Dickson 60 Avant Garde popped his head out of the fo’c’sle. He told us that he and his wife Marion had been in town just one week after a brisk sail down from Seattle. Cashmore was airing things out and letting some sun and fresh air into the boat after their sail.

After Alaska and icebergs, Colin Cashmore was basking in the warmth of the August Sausalito sunshine. 

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Turns out they’ve been out cruising, with a few breaks, for several years, and have recently been enjoying the ‘warmth’ of summer Sausalito. Previously, the couple was in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, arriving via the Aleutian chain and North Pacific. Colin said they haven’t swum off the boat in three years as they were in high, cold latitudes.

The epoxy-coated, double-planked Kauri wood Avant Garde from Russell, New Zealand, was looking very shipshape after some serious oceangoing miles.   

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Avant Garde is a hearty, well equipped cruising boat, but she was also shipshape and looked ready to sail on a moment’s notice. We assume that there are more than a few adventurers cruising the North Pacific. Have you met any? Let us know!

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