Author: trawlercat
One day, your older self will wonder what adventures your younger self chased. This blog, a work in progress, currently follows motorcycle trips with friends—open roads, and shared laughs. Before that, it traced watercraft journeys across waves, and earlier still, it chronicled sailing—wind, rigs, and the sea’s wild moods. It’s a record of motion, a nod to the thrill of the next horizon.
A Personal Note: Closing the Chapter on Trawlercat (With Gratitude)
Subject: A Personal Note: Closing the Chapter on Trawlercat (With Gratitude) Dear Family, Friends, and Fellow Travelers, After some quiet reflection, I’ve decided it’s time to bring the Trawlercat blog to a gentle close. I started it back in 2016, back when it was free and the writing came easy. Over the years the platform […]
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One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Listen closely, friends—especially those of us carrying seventy (70) or more good years of age on these bones. Be as I am—a reluctant enthusiast, a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. This doesn’t mean that you’ve grown soft or indifferent. It means that you’ve lived long […]
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Living aboard my trawler at Rocky Point Marina, on the Multnomah Channel of the Columbia River, I met Scott. He was a born-and-raised Portlander with a quick laugh and a taste for muddy trails, so naturally we became hiking partners. We knocked off the usual suspects—Multnomah Falls to Wahkeena—and a few quieter ones most guidebooks […]
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