We survived! The NOAA weather forecast could not have been any better. Around 10 am yesterday it was like a wall of wind hit us from the west. Most of the day was 30 to 40 knots of wind, and peaked for a couple hours of sustained 40 to 45 knots. We only saw a maximum of 49 knots, but surprisingly it was not anything like experiencing the williwaw in Alpine Cove. Our boat rode the wind and waves smoothly, we hardly noticed expect the howling of the wind would increase as the wind would increase.
This morning we said farewell to the caretakers of the cannery, and set off to round the point. We realized that the winds have been out of the south for the last week or so and they would switch sooner or later, so to start making our way back to town we motored to round Cape Trinity and put up sail to take advantage of the south and south west winds.
As we pulled into Old Kaguyak Bay we got really excited there were two large kelp patches on both sides of the anchorage, which would hopefully mean Rockfish and Winter King Salmon! As we were positioning ourselves for to anchor in the north center of the anchorage a wicked 30 knot williwaw caught our bow. We decided to anchor closer to the south west corner of the bay which happens to be a bit rolly. Not our worst roll, but just enough everything has to stay secured for sea while cooking and well just standing, haha. We can only assume that the swell is wrapping around and through the narrows to the entrance of this bay, and anchoring further from the entrance would help reduce the rolling, but would increase our williwaw risk in this southwest wind.
It was like to kids at Christmas, not five minutes after the anchor was down we lowered the dinghy grabbed fishing poles. We trolled up and down the kelp patches trying different lures and for both Rockfish and King Salmon. It was an absolute huge let down that we did not catch anything not even a nibble. Well Wade thought the kelp looked good so he snagged some, but Sara set it free, haha.
Cheers,
Wade and Sara
Old Kaguyak Bay Anchorage Hard Sand Bottom (VHF Weather) 56° 50.374’N, 153° 46.395W
Copy and paste these coordinates into Google Maps to see where are Wade, Sara, and SV Just Drifting 56.839567,-153.77325
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