Our original thought was to leave the False Pass Marina early, but local information told us that it’s better to leave the north False Pass channel on a rising tide. The tide started to rise at 10 am which was also the time the fuel station open. We were up and ready to go. We decided to walk and see the fuel station conditions when we saw three big fishing boats tied up to each other getting fuel. Since it looked quite crowded at the fuel dock, we decided to get underway. We are not short of fuel, but we thought it would be easier to fill the main tank with fill hose rather than jerry cans.
Our False Pass transit was fairly uneventful. We had a couple of whirl pool actions when we first left the marina, but they quickly stopped. The rising tide added an extra two knots to our speed and the shallowest depth we passed over was 11.9 feet near the last buoy’s before the Bearing Sea. The wind was blowing around 15 knots out of the east and seemed to funnel strongly around the cannery, but once further north in the channel the wind calmed down.
After passing our 11th set of buoy’s we anchored on the side of the channel in Hook Bay where we lowered the dinghy and went to shore in search of glass fishing balls. We walked for a couple of hours down an almost endless black sand beach. We found three glass fishing balls while beachcombing. We have been trying to make our way to the Bearing Sea in this area specifically to find glass balls. As we have achieved this goal we’ve decided to take advantage of the winds to make a run for Unalaska tonight, so we have now crossed into the Bearing Sea.
Cheers,
Wade and Sara
Hook Bay (False Pass) Grass Anchorage 55° 2.175’N, 163° 23.948W Fair VHF Weather Signal, Great SSB Signal, No Data Iridium Go connection
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