After getting clobbered by the current yesterday in Sumner
Strait I was intent on timing our trip better today. So we left about 8 AM, hoping to ride the
flood. The first five miles were slow,
but after that my plan worked. At an RPM
setting that normally afford 5 knots, I regularly saw speeds in the 7-knot
range, sometimes in the 8’s. Free fuel!
Conditions were a bit lumpy, but not bad. Oh, and it was alternately thick fog or heavy
rain. Not much visibility. Radar has sure been useful this last week,
and I’m sure it will continue to be used regularly heading south during the
month of ‘Fogust.’
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| Fog |
Not much else to report on the trip to St. John Harbor. When I arrived the big, very old fishing trawler
that had been here on my prior visits was gone.
Nobody else was at the dock, either.
We got tied up and hung out on the boat, since the rain was pouring
down.
Mid afternoon a State Trooper showed up in a fancy looking
SAFE boat. He came over and started
asking a few questions. It took him a
minute to wrap his head around bringing this little boat up from Seattle. Then he asked, “So you’re just up here doing
a lot of fishing, then?” I told him I
wasn’t, and that I didn’t like fish or have any fishing gear aboard. After a confused moment he seemed satisfied
and took down my name and the registration number on the boat and left.
The rain did break briefly in the afternoon. I stretched my legs on the logging roads and
saw a few deer, but not much else.
Unlike my last visits here, there are no other boats in St. John Harbor.
24.4 nm today and 2,301.5 total
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