By 9:00 am we had both traps on deck and headed west to explore more of the Aleutian Chain. We caught two shrimp, but all our crabs were eaten by one octopus. This invading octopus is now in our freezer for to be later eaten by us. As we rounded […]
Bearing Sea
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We left False Pass late so Wade didn’t wake Sara until 5:30 am. Wow! He’s a wonderful husband! Wade tried to sleep as much as he could but after around 4 hours of sleep the wind started to pick up and Sara let out the mainsail and Wade woke up. […]
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 […]
Today was nice and relatively calm motor sailing. The sky was never clear, but the fog seemed just a little bit brighter at times, like the sun might try to come out, and this extra quasi brightness seemed to increase the temperature a bit. No fish were caught today, again. […]