Thursday August 27, 2015
At 09:00 we pull up a clean
anchor and depart the bustling port of Friday Harbor. We are heading out to the east side of Lopez Island,
not the most direct route or the favorite route by the number of people peeling
off along the way. It is a very calm
day. As we navigate the dog leg through
Lopez Pass, Rosario Strait is laying down flat.
Our intial destination is Aleck Bay at the southern tip of Lopez
Island. With the predicted approaching
foul weather we opt to cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca now and not chance a
bumpy ride tomorrow. We get into Port
Townsend at 14:30, back in for a starboard tie in B77. Engine hours 5.7, nautical miles 43.3.
LEAVING FRIDAY HARBOR
THROUGH LOPEZ PASSAGE
THE CALM OF JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT
CROSSING JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT
THE OLYMPIC PENNINSULA
BOAT HAVEN MARINA, PORT TOWNSEND
This is where we plan to sit for
the next week. After a few issues get
taken care of we will wait for the right weather window to take the boat back
down the coast.
Trip totals
- Engine hours 183
- Nautical miles 1157.2
- Fuel used 219.6 gallons
- Watermaker hours 101, averaging 18.5 gal/hr = 1,868.5 gallons made.
August 30, 2015
Yesterday the storm hit Port
Townsend. We had winds from the SE up to
45 knots. Most of the day we’re seeing
30. By the evening it had calmed down to
20. We checked our six dock lines
periodically. We drove into town and
watched the Washington State Ferries having some difficulty docking. The boats at Point Hudson Marina were taking
quite a pounding, but not as bad as the ones anchored in the bay. The ones that did not hunker down in time
took most of the damages. We have seen
three boats towed in, one covered in kelp, one barely afloat with air bags, and
the one pictured below that was crushed by the ferry landing. Today the weather is good. Brad changed the oil and we installed the
monitor wind vane for the trip down the coast.
STORM SURGE
CALM AFTER THE STORM
ONE OF THE STORM CASUALTIES