SV Panta Rhei Retirement Trip
| Vessel Name: | Panta Rhei |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Able Apogee 50 |
| Hailing Port: | Seattle |
| Crew: | Larry and Karen |
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18 September 2017 | Seattle
We are back in Seattle
It feels like home. Of course we are not in Silshole. Maybe we will be, someday, but there is a list and we are on it. In the meantime we are at Bainbridge Island Marina.
23 August 2017 | Prince Rupert
The dinghy holds air again
It wasn't very nice of the bear to tear the fabric across a seam. We were worried that we couldn't patch it but tried anyway. The glue had a job to do and it did it!
15 August 2017 | Anan Bear Observatory
A Grizzly Bear damaged our dinghy
We were visiting the Anan Bear Observatory south of Wrangell. It is one of the best places to visit in all of SE Alaska BECAUSE it has bears. But (as we learned) there is a dark side to this bear concentration. And of course, there is a story to tell.
19 July 2017 | Petersburg, AK
Moving On
"No matter where you go, there you are" (unknown reference). By now we have been there and done that. Most recently that included Cannery Cove on Admiralty Island. The photo shows the quiet grandeur of the setting with Ron and Suzie's boat SV Tango in the foreground. It has been like that for the last [...]
17 June 2017 | Hoonah, AK
We are in Hoonah, SE Alaska now
We got something resembling a high pressure ridge so we moved expeditously across the Gulf of Alaska. The crossing took three days and weather stayed as forecast. That was a very good thing. The weather changes in the far north far more rapidly and dramatically than we ever experienced in the more southern [...]
03 June 2017 | Seward AK
Crossing the Gulf of Alaska
We are still in Seward, AK. Now that spring has come, why not start south?
We have a visitor
Karen fell boarding the boat from the dinghy and scraped her arm. It's the same arm she wounded in Mexico, but the wound isn't nearly as bad. She scraped her skin off in an area about the size of a quarter. We are putting antibiotics on it and of course keeping it clean. Karen is concerned that she doesn't want to miss the coral garden swim, but I think she may miss it. John and I will do it and tell her what she missed.
We had a symposium on weather to New Zealand yesterday and we also got to see the presidential debate. It was a fun and informative afternoon ashore. We were wondering how we were going to get to do that? Thank goodness for "sports bars" and satellite TV.
A crisis was averted yesterday. We had updated the BIOS on our back up computer and it killed the authorization for our CMAP charts. There is lots of stuff out there to hit and we need a back up mapping system. After a few emails to Compass Rose and to Jeppesen we got new authorization codes and we recovered our maps. This all sounds so easy and routine when I write about it, but I have to tell you that when you are in the middle of the south pacific with reefs and islands all around, losing the only back up electronic chart causes angst. I was worried and fretting. I'm better now. This also illustrates the constant need for "remembering" how I did that. Who remembers how they installed charts 9 months ago? I DO remember that the authorization codes were tantamount to typing all of Genesis in (backwards) with about 20 interspersed special characters. That hadn't changed.
The turtle in the picture swam almost into us. He got within a couple of feet before realizing that he was going to hit us. We took this picture on his approach. Shortly afterwards we saw a very large shark swim past. Thankfully he was a little further away.
