May 16 - Anacortes

The first leg of our summer cruise took us to Anacortes, a town with which we are pretty familiar since our first boat was lived here.

We got a pretty good start with casting off about 6:15 AM. Despite the early Sunday morning start clearing through Fremont and Ballard took awhile then the locks were a bit slow as we locked through the large locks with a tug boat.  We exited into Puget Sound about 2 hours after starting.

The trip up Puget Sound and through Admiralty Inlet went well because we rode an ebb tide out.  We had speeds around 10 knots for nearly 2 hours.  At 1550 RPM our unassisted speed is in the low 7’s so we had 2-3 knots of current in our favor until we hit the Strait of Juan deFuca.

The leg through the east entrance of the strait was slow as currents were in transition to the flood. It wasn’t until we started up Rosario channel that we began to pick up our flood current, which again were giving us a current boost of a couple of knots.

Engine off was at 4:20 PM (1620) in Cap Sante Marina.  We will be here through Sunday.  The TrawlerFest boat show is Thursday through Saturday and we need a few days to put away more efficiently all the things we stuffed on board towards the end of our packing.

Below are a couple of photos of the DavidEllis with whom we buddy boated to Anacortes. They are a classic “Diesel Duck” from which our sedan version was evolved.  I hope to have photos they took of us while underway in the next few days.

Cumulative trip miles – 66.1