We have finally finished processing the deer and Wade scrubbed the cockpit clean! We decided to leave Olga Bay and head back to the cannery. We poured 46 gallon of fuel leaving us one spare 6 gallon jerry can left of diesel. The cannery said before they would provide us with fuel (not sure how much yet!) so we are hoping to fill up enough to either continue cruising Kodiak or maybe start making our way back to town. The cannery said the only water available was stream water. One of our experiments on this sail around Kodiak Island was to see if we could conserve enough water to not start the watermaker, but we couldn’t bring ourselves to put stream water in the boat tanks. We de-winterize the watermaker and filled up. Showers have gotten a little sweeter and a little longer today 🙂
We were hoping for a bit more current ebbing from Olga Bay so we left Anchor Cove around 2:40 pm which was high tide in Moser Bay. On our trip into Olga Bay we figured out the Olga Bay tide is about two to four hours off of the Moser Bay tide, so we thought by the time we would get to the skinniest section of the Olga Narrows Olga Bay’s ebbing tide would push us through faster than the .3 knots pace we experienced on the way in. Oddly the currents didn’t act as they were predicted and we fought the current getting into the Olga Narrows making a speed over ground of only .9 knots. Traveling through the Olga Narrows was uneventful and by the time we reached Moser Bay tide marker we had current with us and we were traveling up to 7.8 knots. Sara got her first taste of navigating by herself against the current at the beginning of the narrows. She was a bit spooked because the boat liked to dart back and forth, but she made it through the narrows smoothly.
Our friends in Kodiak town recommended we anchor near their cabin in Camp Cove. The anchorage looks exposed to the south and Alitak Bay fetch, but as we expect only north winds or light winds out of the southwest, we think all will be fine for tonight. Anchoring made us a little nervous because the bottom felt like rock. Our friends had offered their mooring buoy’s to us but we decided to stay on our own hook. We are very excited to have seen kelp outside of the bay so we are crossing our fingers for rock fish tomorrow! Update: No Rockfish were caught 🙁
Cheers,
Wade and Sara
Camp Cove Anchorage Rock Bottom (VHF Weather) 56° 57.274, 154° 7.918W
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