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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 14h

Aboard a painted ship, upon a painted sea, covered in flies? 🤷🏼‍♂️

David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Price reduced on this fantastic opportunity to join the enviable Grey Cliffs neighborhood in #SaintHelensOregon. Now $489,900. 3/2.1/2, with sufficient parking alongside for the largest RV AND boat. Mature trees, roaming deer, bald eagles, #ColumbiaRiver 455 Grey Cliffs Dr. NWRealProperty.com

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A pair of coyotes loped along the beach exposed by the ebb tide. Canadian geese guarded their goslings, as crows sounded the alarm. The coyotes continued along their opportunistic hunt, and peace was restored in short order. Another idyllic anchorage in the lower #ColumbiaRiver, aboard #svRicketts.

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Besides drinking from hoses, #EvelKnieveling our bikes, and hanging keys from our necks, we #GenXers had to make sense of #ICBM drills under desks, #TheChinaSyndrome, #Chernobyl, #TheDayAfter, and interactive field trips to clean, green, safe #NuclearPowerPlants. Here’s what’s left of #TrojanNPP.

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#BeaconRock #SkamaniaCountyWashington #ColumbiaRiverGorge Most of the significant natural features of the Columbia River Gorge boast parks and hiking trails. Some, like Beacon Rock, may be seen in film, such as #MaverickMovie, and read from #TheLewisAndClarkExpedition. This is my current anchorage.

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thankful the Rose City Yacht Club folks allowed me to crash their party at #GovernmentIsland #TheMightyColumbia

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That’s a wrap! #svRicketts, #SeattleWashington to #SaintHelensOregon. Time for a shave, shower, pizza, sleep aboard #svEyrie, and laundry tomorrow morning. I’ve no idea what’s in store for me after laundry and refilling the diesel tank and water jugs. Hopefully, they’ll have some room for me here. 😊

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I sailed off the hook at noon, beat out of #MottBasin, near #TonguePoint, and was able to ease sheets soon thereafter. Here, we’re wing on wing past one of many #CapeHorn on the #ColumbiaRiver.

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

When I purchased #svRicketts, I knew the (2) depth sounder transducers were non-operational. I brought (4) plotters, but failed to confirm my position at anchor before the #MinusTide resulted in our balancing act in gooey mud. Fortunately, Ricketts remained upright so I could save face! 🤣

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I overslept, but now it’s time to boogie. Thanks, #NeahBayWashington. It’s been grand.

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Studying the weather & sea state forecasts, and it looks like a window is opening up to allow a quick (as possible) passage south to the #ColumbiaRiverBar. It will be just me, and this mostly unfamiliar little #PacificSeacraft, #svRicketts, in the realm of 36+/- hours, hook up/down, with catnaps.

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We set out from #NeahBay to decide for ourselves whether conditions were deteriorating. Yup. We turned back rather than head out and down the coast against contrary winds and seas. Whilst jockeying to regain a slip in the marina, the prop decided otherwise. Such luck though! We saved the prop!

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Another incredible #Sunset in #ParksBay, #ShawIsland, this time whilst visiting with Will & Elizabeth of sv Iolani, with whom I’ve a mutual friend on the #CoconutTelegraph. #NoFilter

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I awoke in #ReadsBay, #DecaturIsland, and was treated to breakfast, shower/shave, laundry, and garbage removal by friends ashore. Then I dodged a maze of Native crab pots, arriving at #ParksBay #ShawIsland well before #Sunset, and the seeming arrival of the last century during #GoldenHour. #Schooner

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

s/v Ricketts, Port Townsend to Reads Bay, Decatur Island. Hook-down, sun down.

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I was able to warm up a bit today. I tackled more boat chores, real estate tasks, and stowing/restowing against entropy. I’m reminded now of being anchored off the then primitive roadstead anchorage at #LaCruz, in #BandarasBay, complete with #mariachi - off #PortTownsendWashington. #SoundUp

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’ve adopted another small boat to add to my growing fleet. This was the pandemonium to which I awoke after the first night. Yikes! 10#💩/5#bucket. I’m nearly stowed for sea, and ready to set sail on a protracted shakedown in #PugetSound & #SallishSea. Shrinking #Chaos. #PacificSeacraft25.

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It’s a curious market in which first-timers are unwilling/unable to jump on a conscientiously maintained starter home with character, in historic St Johns, in Portland. My Seller just staged his listing and updated the images to reflect its potential. Price reduced. NWRealProperty.com

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My Seller just cracked the $500K barrier. Here’s an opportunity to enter the coveted Grey Cliffs neighborhood in #SaintHelens, perched above the #ColumbiaRiver. Lots of potential for personalization. Hwy 30 remains one of the best commutes into the greater Portland Metro area. NWRealProperty.com

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I just listed this unique #floatinghome. It’s a bit rough around the edges, but priced accordingly. As-is, cash-only. Excludes the rented slip. This is a lifestyle home in N Portland Harbor. #WaterSports #SalmonFishing 1819 N Jantzen Ave #MightyColumbiaRiver #PortlandOregon NWRealProperty.com

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If this rain and sunshine continues, my backyard is really not going to need mowing. #Spring #SaintHelensOregon #SandIsland #TheMightyColumbia

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

“Do you like dogs… or cats?” “Yes.”

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

As long as there’ve been salmon, there’ve been seal lions eating them, but it wasn’t until man dammed rivers, built cities beside them, and became indiscriminate resource-extractors that fisheries began collapsing. There’ve always been sea lions, and there’ve always been #salmon.

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

My ex sent me this pic of her place on the edge of the #OregonCoastRange between snow flurries this morning. Pretty spectacular. Photo credit to her, anonymously.

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David (Dos Equis) Smith @swashfrog.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

#Whale #Carcass on #SunsetBeach #NorthOregonCoast. I’ve no idea what killed this whale, though a necropsy should reveal the culprit. There was what appeared to be post-mortem scavenging by at least one shark. We see a number of whale carcasses here each year, some of which may have been ship-struck.

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