June 8 Nakat Harbor - Just North of Canadian/Alaska border

By th end of this day we had traveled 13 1/2 hours, most of it across the first section of the way across the open and treacherous waters of Dixon Entrance. For those of you who are Pacific NW Boaters, it was like a very bad day crossing the Straits of Juan de Fuca but it was like it would not end! The swells were 12 and 15 feet and all the while you are trying to dodge logs and logging debris.

Our group was additionally slowed down by having a transmission going out on one of their 28' Uniflite boats. The 85' Northern Legacy end up being the tow boat in these instances, plus the 28' Uniflite that broke down was also towing a skiff behind. They were quite a sight. Captain of the boat in tow was Jan Snyder who was a tug boat captain with Foss for years...his good natured comment on the CB was "now I know what it was like to be a barge!"

Thanks to the local knowledge and skill of our fish camp crew (after 13 years of making this trek North and South each year) they had a friendly, sheltered harbor for us to hide away in for the night before we tackled the rest of the "crossing". It was a bit deep (100') for anchoring but it was o sheltered and we were so tired that we just put out our anchor and nearly all the 200' of chain...set the anchor alarm and went to bed...zzzzzzzzzz


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