Day 57 - Ketchikan to Prince Rupert
28.07.17 // Categories: Alaska 2017
July 27, 2017
We had the alarm set for 5:00am but sadly we were both awake before hand and couldn't sleep. Left at 5:30am as planned and headed out. Not great when we left but then it got a little worse. Not terrible, but we were going into the wind and the waves and the current so we did a lot of slamming. Then as we got further south, the swell had more of an effect so we were also rockin' back and forth. Good day to have been on a boat that had stabilizers. I'd call it a 3.5 to 4.0 on the Bella meter.
But true to the forecasts, the American's were right and it was 15kts and 3 ft seas all the way down to Cape Fox, and then once we got to Dixon Entrance, the Canadians were right and winds were light and we had flat calm seas. Go figure. So the actual crossing was a break and quite nice. Wind came up slightly after we reached Dundas Island, but it was nothing. So the rest of the trip was fine.
We arrived at Cow Bay around 4:00pm so a long day (9.5 hours) of traveling. When we arrived, the harbor master had found a spot for us for all 3 days and we didn't need to move around. How great is that? We were quite happy. He took one of his slips and turned it into a linear dock. So he said to pull as far forward as we could which we did. No one else around at the time, but just before we left for dinner, a couple of small runabout / fish boats tied up on either end of the slip behind us.
We called Dolly's and made a reservation for dinner at 6:00. Really good food. Greg ate too much and we probably had too much beer. But after today …..
We had the alarm set for 5:00am but sadly we were both awake before hand and couldn't sleep. Left at 5:30am as planned and headed out. Not great when we left but then it got a little worse. Not terrible, but we were going into the wind and the waves and the current so we did a lot of slamming. Then as we got further south, the swell had more of an effect so we were also rockin' back and forth. Good day to have been on a boat that had stabilizers. I'd call it a 3.5 to 4.0 on the Bella meter.
But true to the forecasts, the American's were right and it was 15kts and 3 ft seas all the way down to Cape Fox, and then once we got to Dixon Entrance, the Canadians were right and winds were light and we had flat calm seas. Go figure. So the actual crossing was a break and quite nice. Wind came up slightly after we reached Dundas Island, but it was nothing. So the rest of the trip was fine.
We arrived at Cow Bay around 4:00pm so a long day (9.5 hours) of traveling. When we arrived, the harbor master had found a spot for us for all 3 days and we didn't need to move around. How great is that? We were quite happy. He took one of his slips and turned it into a linear dock. So he said to pull as far forward as we could which we did. No one else around at the time, but just before we left for dinner, a couple of small runabout / fish boats tied up on either end of the slip behind us.
We called Dolly's and made a reservation for dinner at 6:00. Really good food. Greg ate too much and we probably had too much beer. But after today …..