CATEGORY: SAILING

There are two places in the United States that I know of, OTHER THAN ISLANDS, from where you cannot get to another place in the United States, without having to go by water or go through a foreign country.  One of them is on the other side of The Lake of the Woods in Minnesota, and the other is Point Roberts in the state of Washington.  

Point Roberts is part of the United States because of the 49^th parallel cutting across a south jutting peninsula.  It is just south of Vancouver B C and is only a short automobile ride from that marvelous city.  For this reason, and because British Columbia laws did not allow taverns to be open on Sunday, or allow entertainment in taverns, both of which were legal in the U S, Point Roberts was Tavern Mecca. Another plus for U S Taverns was that single men and women could enter by the same door, not ones marked MEN and WOMEN.  The strict Canadian drinking laws may have become more liberal since then, but that little blob of land once contained the world’s largest taverns, some of them seating 1500 people.  It was Sin City for Vancouver.

Did we ever, in all our years of sailing, tie up to the guest dock of one of those taverns?  Missed that one.