Quite a water path led us here today to Rocky Bay at the top of Montague Island with Sphinx Rock standing guard over our anchorage. We paused before leaving Comfort Cove this morning to watch a seiner hoist many pinks aboard. Lots of seiners were working the points and bays. Headed up Gravina Bay to
Whales of Baker Point The morning quiet was rhythmically interspersed by the gentle bellows of breathing whales just outside our anchorage at Merrifield Bay. Further out in Sumner Strait misty sprays shot up here and there. Underway we soon came upon the rippled textures of the tidal current which sounded like a river and you
I didn’t need to count any hurdling sheep to find sleep on this afternoon anchor in Sheep Bay. Dreams came quick, easy, beautiful, bizarre, and untraceable. The names of so many landforms and bays we encounter appear randomly and often inappropriately named. Sheep Bay for instance was named by a guy who saw some goats
We are presently cruising at 6 knots alongside Godwit , a couple hundred meters to our North, on our way to the Egg Island Channel. The weather window was too good to pass up so we departed Yakutat yesterday. Tom and Jim left about 1300. I picked up Jim Mealey from Ely at the airport
We were up at 0330 and on our way toward Schooner Beach by 0400. After baiting up the last of the gear we dropped both sets and took some breakfast and a nap. We still have a little down time while the gear soaks. We drift while we sleep at night with the anchor light
Back in the Yakutat harbor after 3 days of fishing. Had some rainy, misty weather to start and a bit of a swell, but all cleared off today and we could see towering St. Elias, Logan, Fairweather, and the Wrangells off to the west. The maw of the Hubbard glacier was often visible and a
Tuesday July 6, 2021 Having an early morning coffee in Kalinin Bay at the top of Kruzof Island. Salisbury Sound is to the North and we will join Chichagof Island later today along the Khaz Peninsula. Yesterday we departed our anchorage in Shultze Cove in Fish Bay at the east end of Peril Strait and
The narrow El Capitan Passage was interesting and I was thankful for the well marked buoys. We hit a fair swell out of Shaken Bay and some interesting currents with quite a few logs and wood floating in certain areas which kept us on our toes. A humpback marked our entry into Baker Point and
Metlakatla, Annette Island We travelled 93 miles today, leaving our Punchbowl anchorage in Rudyerd early this morning, passing close by Eddystone Rock which rises 234 ft straight up like a finger, and surveying the two arms of Smeaton Bay before leaving Misty Fiords National monument for Ketchikan. Took on 120 gallons in the tank (+
Trisha Tied up at the old cannery site 38 miles south from Auke Bay today. It’s great to be underway after a celebratory send off with Kevin onboard the boat last night. We chose to tie up on the inside of Taku Harbor opposite an immaculate green sailboat. Trisha, the lone sailor of the craft
