Thursday-Sunday, April 27-30, 2006: Rendezvous at Roche Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington
Rendezvous is an annual Selene Trawler event to bring together the Selene owners on the West coast hosted by Friday Harbor Yacht Sales. Last year there were 21 Selene’s at Rendezvous. There were 34 beautiful Selene’s this year at Roche Harbor. With owners, owners awaiting their Selene’s and prospective owners, there were around 200 people attending the Saturday night dinner. It is a great event that allows owners to get to know each other and gives us all a forum to talk “boat” with other cruisers.
We met lots of new owners and loved seeing old friends. The highlight of Rendezvous is the “Trawler Crawl” which is an open “boat” time where we can go thru the boats attending and get ideas for spending more money (just kidding). Howard Chen, the builder, flew over from China and this year brought his parents and brother. It is very interesting to see all the innovations on these boats. Howard is so creative that when he sees a good idea he incorporates it into his new boats. Of course it makes us “old” owners want a new boat that has all the gadgets. We had such a great time at Rendezvous and met so many new people that I know will be part of our boating adventures. It is so inspiring to meet others who love cruising and especially those who are considering this as a live aboard lifestyle.
The classes this year were informative as were the Selene vendors who were there to answer questions on their equipment. Saturday night’s award dinner had great food, and fun awards. Bob received an award for most hours on his engine last year and the fishing award for largest fish caught on the Selene Rally. The award was a mounted singing fish that not only sang but turned it’s head (really funny). Bob wanted to mount it over our bed—but I nixed that. I think it should be a traveling award and presented every year to the fisher person who gets the biggest fish that year.
Our friends Marilyn and Jim from Florida flew in Saturday afternoon and plan on spending the week with us as we start our trip north towards Alaska. We will let them off in Campbell River and then we will meet the Maizel’s (Annaruth) and make our way slowly to Sitka. The Holister’s (Amavi) will be ahead of us but we will try to catch up with them. The McCloskey’s (China Moon) are way ahead and we will try to meet them in Alaska before they head back in June.
We met lots of new owners and loved seeing old friends. The highlight of Rendezvous is the “Trawler Crawl” which is an open “boat” time where we can go thru the boats attending and get ideas for spending more money (just kidding). Howard Chen, the builder, flew over from China and this year brought his parents and brother. It is very interesting to see all the innovations on these boats. Howard is so creative that when he sees a good idea he incorporates it into his new boats. Of course it makes us “old” owners want a new boat that has all the gadgets. We had such a great time at Rendezvous and met so many new people that I know will be part of our boating adventures. It is so inspiring to meet others who love cruising and especially those who are considering this as a live aboard lifestyle.
The classes this year were informative as were the Selene vendors who were there to answer questions on their equipment. Saturday night’s award dinner had great food, and fun awards. Bob received an award for most hours on his engine last year and the fishing award for largest fish caught on the Selene Rally. The award was a mounted singing fish that not only sang but turned it’s head (really funny). Bob wanted to mount it over our bed—but I nixed that. I think it should be a traveling award and presented every year to the fisher person who gets the biggest fish that year.
Our friends Marilyn and Jim from Florida flew in Saturday afternoon and plan on spending the week with us as we start our trip north towards Alaska. We will let them off in Campbell River and then we will meet the Maizel’s (Annaruth) and make our way slowly to Sitka. The Holister’s (Amavi) will be ahead of us but we will try to catch up with them. The McCloskey’s (China Moon) are way ahead and we will try to meet them in Alaska before they head back in June.
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