Ketchikan to Craig, Prince of Wales Island
Overnight Anchorages
Ketchikan (1)
Exchange Cove (2)
Port Protection (3)
Entrance Cove (4)
Devilfish Bay (5)
Sarkar Cove (6)
Kahli Cove (7)
Kaguk Cove (8)
Nagasay Cove (9)
Klawock (10)
Craig (11)
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Summary Log for this Leg (2)
Sandy and Eric Wolman, from Potomac, MD, joined us for the second leg. Sandy is a pathologist/geneticist, now semi-retired and working as the administrator of a new scientific society in Bethesda concerned with banking of biological materials. Eric, a college classmate of Tom’s, is an applied mathematician and operations researcher who spent thirty years in telecommunications at Bell Labs and whose second career, now at George Mason University, is the study of medical screening, its utility and flaws. Both are “old salts,” but new to the high-tech sailing of this motor vessel. Our cruise had reasonably good weather except for the first several days; intermittent sun, clouds, some rain and moderate winds prevailed. We anchored in small bays or coves every night except for the first and last one, and had lots of opportunities to practice narrow cove, between the rocks, navigation. Sandy prepared a gourmet feast every evening, and our sommelier Eric choose the appropriate wine to accompany it. Liz and Tom did some kayaking, Sandy and Liz explored by dinghy, and the Wolmans devoured books at a great rate. We started our first reading-out-loud book of the summer, A Question of Intent, by David Kessler, former FDA (Food & Drug Administration) Commissioner when the FDA took on Big Tobacco. As usual, our many conversations on great topics and small were a continuing highlight of the cruise. We saw a whale, a bear, a marten (swimming), ravens, moorhens, a variety of diving, dabbling and other ducks, many eagles and sea-otters, very few commercial fishing boats and almost no cruising boats.
Leg 2 stats: 11 days total, 10 travel days (35.2 hours of motoring averaging 3.5 hours per travel day), 216.6 miles covered at an average speed of 6.2 knots; no nights in marinas except Craig on the last day.
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