Last night was exciting. Calm/Wind/Calm.
We ended up anchoring just off the boat yard at Port Townsend, it was a beautiful evening, no wind, the fog burned off late in the afternoon and it was beautiful evening. I had set my anchor in about 36 feet of water near what turned out to be a couple of permanently anchored boats. About 1100 pm just as we were getting ready to go to bed the wind came up quickly and started buffeting us around quite a bit. We were swinging a full 180 degrees every minute and the gusts were as high as 32mph. The weather gods had not predicted this so it caught us a bit off guard. I ended up pulling up the dinghy just in case we started to drag anchor and then I kept anchor watch in the fly bridge while Chris went to sleep down below. Not sure when the winds finally died, I fell asleep for awhile but was up frequently checking the plotter to make sure we were staying put. We drug about 60 feet from where we started but after that we did not budge. The painful reason for that was discovered the next morning when we tried to raise the anchor. We had snagged a chain, probably connecting the permanent anchors for the two semi permanent anchored boats to either side of us. I got the chain up to the surface and captured it with a rope then let my anchor down a bit and it came loose. Dropped one end of the rope and the chain dropped back to where it belonged. Not sure if we would have held in place if we had not snagged the chain?

We decided to take our chances and head across the straits today as they are predicting gail force winds this evening for east entrance of Juan De Fuca straits,and it was a non eventful crossing. Chris thought it a bit lumpy but it really was quite easy, there were some good rollers off our port beam for a while that rocked us pretty good. We got a 3 knot push out of Admiralty inlet with the outgoing tide.

Chris is out in the sailing dinghy having a blast in Hunter Bay. The wind is blowing about 10 to 12 knots and it really gets the little Walker Bay up and moving. It is a great play toy.

No Crab. Everyone else has crab but so far nothing big enough to keep or they are all females. Bummer.

tomorrow maybe Stewart Island, who knows