Change in plans: we'd planned to winter over the boat in SE AK again this coming winter, but family issues have caused us to reconsider. We are now enroute south to Bodega Bay via the Queen Charlotte Islands, west side Vancouver Island and Pacific Coast. Just short of 2000 miles; we expect to be tied up at Spud Point by end of September. 

Dave & Jeannie, who'd come to Juneau expecting a trip out to Sitka; they were good sports about the change, and the weather!  2 feet of rain in one week!  Fortunately some sun before they left

They did resist being shanghai-ed though for the entire voyage south and to that end our buddy Wade flew into Ketchikan to make the trip south with us

We will likely have very little communication connection for the next month. We do check in each morning with Barbara on the Great Northern Boater's Net, so somebody does actually know where we are. That's via SSB / HF / Ham radio.

I know this is short with little detail; I promise to fill in the Blake with a long blog post when we've got US phone service down around Seattle.