Leaving Port Townsend, rounding the corner past the lighthouse at Point Wilson and heading into the Straits of Juan de Fuca is an invigorating experience, when accompanied with a father, the experience take on even more weight. If it weren't for a buoyant hull, Alize would have surely sunk under all this gravitas.
One thing about Pat Curran, he loves bluegrass and Texas singer/songwriters. The week spent traveling from Seattle to the San Juans was heavy on Townes Van Sant, Guy Clark, David Grissman, Tony Rice, Gram Parsons...ext. You can hear a little bit of mandolin in this clip.