Produce from Nash’s for June 14th delivery
Last update June 11, 2pm (Dave)
Bob Hall and I are anchored in Sequim Bay waiting load for the June 14th delivery.
This trip started from Fairhaven (near Bellingham) where Jackie (Bob’s Yankee 30) was moored. We spent the last two days cruising through the tide rips of the San Juans into Sequim Bay. Engineless entry into Sequim Bay is always interesting and this time was no exception. The last time we did this entrance was in complete darkness, in very light wind. The Sequim bay entrance is cool because you navigate the channel between two long spits then between some mud cliffs (which give very variable air) and a real shallow bar. The navigational markers are not lit ensuring this entrance is a worthy navigational challange. This time was no different but at least in broad daylight. The challange this time was the wind was up and our closest point of sail turned out inconveniently to be exactly the heading we needed for navigating the channel, 240 degrees. Meaning lateral drift would ensure we would have to short tack at least once in the channel, which is what we did.
We anchored Jackie in Sequim Bay not far from John Wayne marina where we will load the produce at the loading dock.
The forecast is looking really good and we are looking forward to making our record time for the trip to Seattle.
Well we did make it back in our record time 11 hours 15 minutes after flying both spinnaker and genoa at once from Admiralty to Seattle.