Meyers Chuck
09 August 2007 | Seattle
Chuck
July 20
Fog and rain. Up at 615 coffee and look outside the boat at the weather. Visibility is approximately � mile can see to shore. Plot daily track and turn on the radar. Don't need weather report, already have it.
0700 Up anchor, leave the harbor at dead slow in the murky fog , pass crab pots towards the strait. Once out side, set the course and crab past Zirinsky Rock at 7.3 knots turning 1300 on the engine, pretty fast.
0815 Turn into snow passage, current with, and fog still here too.
0915 Sky lightening
1015 fog has lifted and the current is beginning to build against Larrikin.
1100 Whales again, Humpbacks all over the place, spouts in the distance. We pass two laying on the surface. Sort of loitering there
1300 Pass Reef Rock in Clarence Strait, we are heading to Lincoln Rocks and then on to Meyers Chuck for the evening, will anchor there.
1300 Side note, the fuel leak has subsided, checked the fuel diaper and no sign of the diesel leak.
1530 Arrive at Meyers Chuck and go through the Red and Green marks, entering the little harbor. Very nice protected anchorage with a public dock. The David B is here, she passed us earlier in the day. He did seem to do better against the current than us. He is anchored right in the middle of the harbor and looked like we would have to as well. As we approach the public docks, people appear and yell out to us they will maneuver the boats and give us room at the dock. I wait and circle then the room appears, we are ready to tie up and have 5 guys on the docks to help.
Once tied up, we chat with the folks, all of them are from Washington State, including a small time commercial fisherman. I buy a silver salmon from him and fillet it out. Nice deal for everyone.
I also check the prop next to the dock as the vibration seem a bit much, maybe just my imagination. Nothing seems to be tangled in the prop.
We will leave in the morning for Ketchikan.