07:35
Red Nun off Wing Point Bainbridge Island
Clear skies/ 58F
Tide 9.7 ft @ 07:23
Wind W 5.1 kts
SOG 5.7kts
COG NW
Crew: Brooke and Louis
Voyage: 06 June - 13 June 2015
Itinerary: Turn Island, Montague, Sidney Spit, Roche Harbor, Sucia Island
The second week of June was a most favorable convergence of the most important sailing variables. Tide, weather, equipment, crew and schedule. Although schedule is a much disdained topic among cruisers, often the reality of responsibilities dictates a schedule of some sort. The trick is too allow sufficient flexibility whatever the time constraints such that safety and its cousin, enjoyment, bath the voyagers in the warm glow of an ideal journey.
And thus we cast off just after the peak of high tide in Eagle Harbor on a bright June morning with one full week of free time and the ship fully provisioned and ready.
We would follow the outflow from Puget Sounds past Kingston, Point No Point, Marrowstone Point and through Admiralty Inlet. The dregs of the big 10 foot ebb would push us out past Partridge Bank where the westerly wind would take over the assist as we coursed Juan de Fuca northwestward toward Cattle Pass where the new flood would pick us up on its surge through San Juan Channel. We would swing into the back eddy on the northwest lee of Turn Island, catch a mooring buoy and settle in for the evening by 16:45 hours.
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| Dinghy deployed at Turn Island |
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| Explorer crossing Juan de Fuca |
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