2024 Flotilla to Alaska Day 7 - Blunden Harbour to Allison Harbour
by Laura Domela 18 May 16:13 PDT
2024 Flotilla to Alaska Day 7 © Laura Domela
We left Blunden Harbour this morning around 7:30am after deciding that conditions looked good enough to scoot up to Allison Harbour, 18nm further toward Cape Caution. The forecast for Cape Caution on Saturday is still looking good, so getting two hours or so closer today will help us out tomorrow!
Conditions as we left Blunden Harbour were very nice...calm on Queen Charlotte Strait with a little bit of swell under our hulls...an occasional otter bobbing along as we passed. However, as often happens, the further northwest we went, the larger and steeper and closer together the swells became.
By the time we were set to turn in toward Allison Harbour we probably had steep six foot swells spaced about 4-6 seconds apart...so we extended our path (sailboaters call this "tacking") until we were fairly certain a 90 degree turn would put most of the drama on the stern, which it did, and then we watched the chart carefully as we made our way through all the rocks and small islets and into Allison Bay. We all anchored at the head of the bay with one other boat, and then went out for some dinghy exploring.
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