2019 Sail Trip Boris And Yammy

Whooping it up at the Ketchikan, Macdonalds, source of shitty internet. Our trip from Petersburg was uneventful. We traveled via Zimovia Strait which we had not been on before. That and a few new anchorages made things more interesting. Weather has been damp. Today we saw the sun for the first time in five days. Hoping to pull out of here tomorrow. Maybe something more interesting might happen between here and Prince Rupert. The pictures below are from Petersburg.

Here we are in picturesque Petersburg. It is a fairly quiet fishing village on the banks of Wrangell Narrows. Most of the traffic up to Southeast Alaska squeezes through this narrow passageway. Out trip here was remarkably uneventful. While we were in Auke Bay in Juneau I discovered my passport was missing. I was pretty sure I left it in my truck in Skagway. Thankfully my friend Ken was home and he skipped down to the truck retrieved it and couriered it by air to Juneau within hours. I must say the gods were looking after me. It is about a sixty stretch down Stephen's Passage. Most of it was flat calm. We were able to sail for about an hour but that was it. As we approached the Five Finger Light House and the Junction with Frederick Sound we started to see whales galore, humpback whales. We also saw thousands of marbled Murrelets. One whale broached continuously for about an hour but I was unable to capture a decent picture. Tomorrow we resume our trip south t...