Slow Season

Ketch Rigged motor sailer

Captain Terry ...works year round..even in cold weather

Cold day in the San Juan Islands,

Dec. 5, 2006
With 6 inches of snow on the deck Captain Terry Sanders delivers a 35 foot motor sailor to his customer in Bellingham Washington.

You might say it was a cold trip.


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Capt. Terry helps Colon McCoy take his 1948 33' Grandy from Friday Harbor to Illwaco, Where Colon met his wife and they take their boat the"Entrepide " up the Columbia rive to its permenant moorage.

Capt. Terry helps Colon McCoy take his 1948 33' Grandy from Friday Harbor to Illwaco, Where Colon met his wife and they take their boat the"Entrepide " up the Columbia to its permenant moorage.

Capt Terry takes owner/family to Chatter Box Falls

Captain Terry takes owner and his family to Princess Louisia Inlet and Chatter Box Falls, then back to Friday Harbor to change crews for the owner's wife's brothers to take them to desolation sound' Prixdeux Haven, April Point, Ganges, then whale watching on the west side of San Juan Island where J-Pod and K-pod, swim, spyhop, tail-lop, and breach, while "S'wells' lies dead in the water, then returns to Friday Harbor for a well deserved rest at the Port's marina.

Slow Season

Ketch Rigged motor sailer

Capt Terry "on the move" again

After a long winter working on The Sportfishing Yacht, "S'wells", In Sidney B.C. Then hauled out for two months in Bellingham, for some exhaust hull work; then back to Sidney B.C. for more engine work. Capt Terry brings "S'wells" home to San Juan Island, that will serve as a home base for cruising out of with the owner and his family and friends this summer of 2006.

USCG CAPTAIN - checking fuel system

Clean fuel is a must on a modern Sportfishing Motor Yacht Capt Terry replaces filters.

Charter season is just around the corner. Give Capt Terry a call and see if he's available.

USCG CAPTAIN - Bellingham boat yard

After sixweeks in the Bellingham Seaview North boat yard, making a custom exhaust extension to remove the un-wanted vibrations caused by the propeller catching the exhaust. Capt Terry gives the yard a hand launching "S'wells" the current boat he is captaining for a private owner.

brief over view 33 years experience

Currently Captain of 65' sports fishing boat.

Brief History

Atlantic crossing and through the western caribean on 50 to 108' sail and motor yacht as deckhand and mate: deliveries of motor and sailing yachts as Captain or Mate from Puerto Villarta Mexico as far north as Valdiz AK. Inside NW passage to Glacier Bay AK; Queen Charlotte Is.; circumnavigated Vancouvers Island as Captain on private Yacht. Instructor for both sail and power operations and navigation for many Charter boat companies. Captain on various types of whalewatching nature excursion vessels.