Left Effingham Bay in Barkley Sound at 08:30. The vacation part of the trip is over. The rest of this voyage will consist of long days and some overnight passages. It is still raining. The good thing about the rain is that it limits the amount of fog. The sea is not too rough. It helps when we are going with the swells and the wind. We're taking turns taking breaks from the cockpit. There are odd jobs to do. Brad cleans the bilge filter. I read some. Brad watches a DVD. Our course is fairly long and straight. The coastline curves in and back out again. We arrive at Port San Juan at about 16:00. There really is no protected place to anchor here. Last year we went all the way into the head and bounced all night. This year we're anchoring just inside in an indentation on the northwest shore, called thrasher cove. There are several tents and hikers camping on the beach. I'm baking brownies and making MacNCheese with hotdogs for dinner. Today's stats: sea temp 54.7, air temp 66, ocean temp 49.3, engine hours 7.5, watermaker 6 hours, nautical miles 45.7, total trip miles 1044.6, rain 0.38 inches, GPS coordinates 40.33.496N / 124.28.120W.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
The wind was calm last night, but we bounced from the swells and wakes coming in from the Strait of Juan De Fuca. I'm pretty sure I slept because I remember waking up. Brad doesn't think he slept. The anchor held well and came up clean. We left at 10:30 to catch the flood tide. A few sprinkles and minimal fog. We have set one long straight course from Port San Juan to Port Angeles, but decide to cross the shipping traffic lanes more perpendicularly. We have more than 2 knots in our favor for much of the trip. Turning into Port Angeles Bay we have about 14 knots of wind against us. The Boat Haven is all the way inside. It takes that long to ready the fenders and dock lines. The customs agent meets us at the dock and comes aboard after I get the boat secured. Brad has already called in all our information, so it doesn't take much time to pass through customs. Pushing off of the customs dock, Brad backs out and turns 360 to get us at the fuel dock on our starboard side. We take on 68.4 gals at a price of 3.64/gal. So much cheaper here than in Canada. After fueling we push off the dock again and Brad does another 360 to get us pointed into the wind to dock on our port side for the night. 16:30 Today's stats: water temp 54.1, air temp 57, sea temp 49, engine hours 7.7, nautical miles 54.1, total trip miles 1098.7, GPS coordinates 48.07.504N 123.27.076W. We have water and electric at the dock for 0.86 per foot. The internet costs 5.95 per day.
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