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First Microship Mini-Expedition, covering 132 miles around Puget Sound
during September, 2001

(All images clickable for larger versions.  Please note that this collection of images is getting a bit dated, to put it mildly.  MUCH newer stuff is on the daily update page.)

map boat
Map of the route, from Camano Island, south to Everett, around Bainbridge Island, and harbor-hopping home via Poulsbo, Kingston, and Langley. Microship Wordplay on her landing gear in our driveway.
songline wordplay
The bow of Songline underway... The bow of Wordplay underway...
songline wordplay bow
Songline ambling along near Bainbridge Island Wordplay on a run between Camano and Whidbey Islands.
wordplay docked tasha
Microship Wordplay at the dock in Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island. Songline at sunset.
songline docked bitty boats
Tasha emerging from the confines of her boatlet. The voyageurs come into view on the last day of the 2-week adventure.
coming in to land back home
Wordplay preparing to make landfall, with landing gear extended. Natasha and friend Jessica hauling Songline up the driveway.
reunited standing forth
The reunion. Land ho!
nick routledge wordplay
Natasha with Nick, who held the fort at Nomadic Research Labs while we were away. On the mooring buoy in front of Greg Jacobs' house near Silverdale..