6:00 pm  Social hour with no-host bar and light snacks
7:00 pm  Slide show presentation
CYC Clubhouse North End of Shilshole Marina, Seattle, Washington

Following their dreams on a tight budget, Wendy Hinman and Garth Wilcox cruised the Pacific on a 31-foot boat for seven years. Wendy Hinman, a CYC member for more than twenty years, will share stories and photos from their 34,000-mile Pacific odyssey on Friday evening, April 13th at Corinthian Yacht Club.  Wendy and Garth left in 2000 on a voyage that took them to 19 countries, including Mexico and “Milk Run” stops in the South Pacific, plus the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, the Marianas, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. They entrusted their lives to a boat that fit their budget better than Garth’s large frame. On their journey, Wendy and Garth discovered that teamwork and a sense of humor were more important than many so-called “necessities” as they faced many “character-building” opportunities.
They made a long-anticipated visit to the island where Garth was shipwrecked as a teenager, only to find it had become a penal colony. An electronic catastrophe in the Solomon Islands left them without key navigation equipment. To haul and repair their boat on a remote atoll several thousand miles away, they had to devise a means for getting it out of the water. In Asia, they dodged typhoons and ships that threatened to turn their home into kindling. Finally they endured a grueling 49-day passage across the cold North Pacific from Japan to a post 9/11 America they hardly recognized.

Wendy’s new book, Tightwads on the Loose, will be available for purchase that evening.