Day 39, 40

June13 – Outa Hassler Harbor about 9 am. Twaz about 3 hours on flat seas; into Ketchikan fuel dock. Filled up with about 40 lts of diesel. Good to know that my credit card works here. There were 5 huge cruise ships in the harbor. The population of Ketchikan is about 9,000 The cruise ships […]

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Day 38

June 12 – Left Goose Bay at about 7:30 am. Ok seas (no rain) except quite “rolly polly” mid crossing. Once into U.S. waters our online custom clearance forms were able to be submitted. We made our declarations and took photos of our passports the night before in Goose Bay. Clearance given by email so

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Day 33,34,35,36, 37

June 7 – We left Kumealon anchorage at 7am, in the fog. Radar not working! It worked just fine a few days ago when I tested it in non foggy conditions. Oh well the seas were flat and I could see logs in the water ahead and both gpss were working. No problemo as long

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Day 32

After a Pi walk and a garbage bag drop off, we left Hartley Bay at 7am. I thought about waiting for the fuel dock to open but there was no hours of operation posted and the previous day both the band office and the fuel dock were supposed to be open when we arrived at

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Day 31

The prawn boat left the dock at 6:45 am and we took it’s spot, I did a bit of a tour of the remnants of what was, In the 1920s, 30s and even the 40s a bustling town of over 400 people who mostly worked at the cannery. A company recently bought the “town” and

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Day 30

Woke up at 4;45am when Pi came into our berth ( usually; out of bounds for her) and was whining. Unusual. And then I noticed a few unusual sounds coming from the hull. Oh Noooooo! Outside……naked as a jaybird in the rain………the shore is way too close! The boat is not moving. DoubleShitt. We are

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Day 29

June 3. Andy up at 5:15am. That hada hurt. But it’s light early these days and another “travel day” adventure beckoned . Filled up the water tanks and were; off and running at 6:30am. Thought we would stop in at the small village of Klemtu and maybe check out what they had in their grocery

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Day 25, 26, 27, 28

May 30. We leave Fourner Bay at 9;15am in showers, cool temperatures and with a bit of a tail wind (not that I could put up our sails; with the main sail being jammed and all) It took us about 4.5 hours into the main wharf in ShearWater where we temporarily tied up and had

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Day 24

May 29. It rained fairly heavily overnight and there was a few drips of water ingressing the centre hatch. Pi whined and we ignored her. She left a large puddle on the mat at the bottom of the stairs up, when we were not looking. Bad Pi. First mistake on the boat though. Might have

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Day 23

May 28 – We motor across Queen Charlotte Strait in about 6.5 hours on rippled seas, to a really nice anchorage at Fury Cove in Penrose Island Provincial Marine Park. The sun came out and we yaked into a nice white clam beach and did a bit of exploring and Pi got some off leash

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