Indian Cove, Shaw Island

We left Friday Harbor and headed for Shaw Island to a place called Indian Cove.  We set the crab pots and in short order landed a large Red Rock crab and a good sized Dungeness crab.  This location was great and we enjoyed a nice sand beach with forts and a solid anchorage with a nice level sandy bottom.  There was surprisingly little current in the cove and we had a nice gentle breeze from the south that kept us pointed into the wind.

I will definitely return to this amazing place.  If you visit this location I would recommend you check the weather the fetch to the south is rather long and I imagine it could be a bit bumpy if there was any weather from the South.  The nice thing is if it was to get rough you could easily head off to Blind Bay for a quiet anchorage in that case.

View from anchorage looking south with the Olympics off in the distance.

First and only crab feast on the journey.  On the way home we caught three additional crabs at Spencer Spit but decided to let them return to nature.

There's a ferry in there somewhere.  I'm glad we were out of the traffic lanes and at anchor since this guy was still going fast and sticking to his schedule.

Friday Harbor

We stopped in for a day in Friday Harbor to pick up some needed supplies.  Things we forgot, topped off on fuel and enjoyed a nice dinner.  The marina was at half capacity so we have our own finger pier.  Enjoying the morning, off for some breakfast, we'll give the boat a quick wash then off to the next destination.

A boat here hasn't cast off for quite some time.

San Juan Islands - 2020

 First stop Spencer Spit with an anchorage on the North side. A quiet night on anchor right next to a shelf.  The benefits of being on the small side allows us to get inside the rest of the anchored boats.  We took off for a short sail to Blind Bay.  Mount Baker was out in full glory.

Emily enjoying the first day of vacation.

New head sail, small and great for a solid breeze.

Blind Bay for a quiet anchorage, some Verboort Sausage on the barbecue with some Spot Prawns from the local market on Orcas.

Fuel Locker Continued to Done

This posting is just a sequence of images for the install.  I sort of improvised on the creation of this after watching a you tube video of the stitch and glue method of construction on a kayak.

Corners getting a small filled of vinylester filler on the inside of the boxe to freeze the shape.  The locker will now move the the garage for final taping and first coat of paint.

Jilann helping out with painting, bond areas are masked.

Bonded into the boat with structural fiberglass putty, then tapped with 3 layers of mat veil.  I'm super happy how this turned out and now we can enjoy a little more outside storage.

Later I'll post images of the final install.

Fuel Locker Getting Built

So the 6mm panels are re-assembled in the boat, the corners of the boxes are tightened and I'm preparing to dry fit the fuel tank.

Stbd Fuel Locker

The aft locker of my Ross 780 was removed to gain access to decoring the stbd cockpit seats.  I'm replacing and building the locker in place like a colapsible box I have dry fit the panels in place using contour gages.  The locker will be bonded and taped into place using a chop strand mat encapsulated 6mm Aquatek.  I'm using pvc rod and zip ties set back .75" so that the corners will come together at an edge and the zip ties can be leveraged to form a tight joint.

Tomorrow this shape will be fit to the boat and the box will be frozen with a tight fit to deck.

Something new, who can guess what this will be? It has been a while since I have beebeen active on the blog but I promise there will be more excitement to come.