Delivery from Nash’s Feb 22nd
Updated : Sunday 22nd, 8:18pm. Delivery complete.
Jackie left Seattle for Sequim at around 10:30pm Monday Feb 23rd to take advantage of weakening wind before it dropped. Arrived for overnight stop in Pt Townsend, Point Hudson Marina after 15 hrs at 1:30pm Tuesday. Seas calm. Jackie is an engineless Yankee 30 equiped with a 15ft skulling oar used for docking.
Left Port Townsend at 9:30am Wednesday and experienced very light to no wind all day. We used the spinnaker, tidal current and a lot of skulling to arrive at John Wayne Marina around 3 hours after sunset that night.
Produce was delivered from Nash’s farm on Thursday by Sid Marony of Sequim Locally Grown in his electric truck. Bob was disappointed he didn’t get to transfer the entire load with his bike trailer, though he did move all the kale and half of the cabbage by bike.
To take a break from Sailing and to send out customer mail Sarah and I walked the 4 mile round trip into Sequim, hitching a ride on Bob’s trailer for a section.
Jackie was loaded and we cast off from the dock at around 6pm Thursday evening. Our plan was to rely extensively on the main flood tides to get us back through the Straights, Admiralty Inlet and into the Puget Sound. The best tides were all between 9pm and 3am both Thursday and Friday. We ran a rotating 4 hour watches and made it back to Seattle in just over 30 hours at 12:30am Saturday morning.
This whole trip was characterized by extremely light wind for this time of year. Making way engineless in these conditions is a lot about managing tide changes efficiently, especially making sure to be in position to drop a hook if the wind is still dead when the tide changes. Without the great sculling oar setup and light air sail plan on Jackie, this trip would have taken a lot longer.
The highlight of the trip back was clearly seeing a pod of Orcas heading north past Kingston. All of us on board had seen Orcas in ones and twos but never 6 or 7 all out of the water at once.
Once back in Settle we unloaded at the boat loading ramp using two cargo bikes to move the produce to the drop-off point at Kickit in downtown Ballard for people to pickup in person. Door to door deliveries were made by Seques Fisclin’s electric assisted Trike.
During the entire 5 days of this trip and delivery no fossil fuel was used in transporting the load from Nash’s farm to the dropoff or to customers doors in Ballard.
Dave.
Crew Dave, Bob, Sarah.