Leaving Petersburg, Diane, & Lee

Tuesday, May 26th,
Petersburg has a 20 foot tide, and this is what the shore looks like at low tide...

With eagles like pigeons, one on every mast...



After the crabbing, we returned to Petersburg to do boating chores, one of which was getting a line out of our stern thruster. Rather than me dive for it, I hired a diver to get it out. Another lesson learned, but this line was left tied to the staple-rail on the swim platform, so low down that I did not see it when we readied for our return trip. Problem! But it's all worked out now. On our dock was a "gill-netter" rigging a new net for his boat. This stuff is casual but very serious. Dinner was the crab and prawns again....somebody has to eat this...
On our walk after eating, we saw this dear in downtown ...

And this sign in a window says it all, especially about a small town. Every birthday is know to all, and recognized monthly like this...

This is my first attempt at a line splice...I needed to lengthen a 250 foot poly line to 300 feet and this is what it looks like..
Last year, again with Lee's instructions, I did a loop splice around a thimble for an anchor bridle
Lee & Diane are hard to say goodbye to....here is Christy, tears and all...
Monday we waited for the currents to "push" and headed south through the Wrangell Narrows. This is a 20 mile passageway marked with over 60 markers and buoys, with 20 or so major turns, all in a natural waterway. We only burned 2.5 gph and still had over 8kts, since we had a current the entire way. We anchored across Sumner Strait in St. Johns Harbor. Then it was up on Tuesday for the short trip to Wrangell.

This was our first rainy day, overcast, and with seas that were over 3' for about 20 minutes. We sped-up for the first time to 15 kts to shorten time spent in the bumps, but it's clearing up this afternoon. The boat behind us Salty Dawg, is based in Anacortes. They are Kunt and Gerry Frostad, and Gerry is a Bartlett from Cullman...small world isn't it?