Stella Maris
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- Fluid Motion Model
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- Helmsman PH38, 11' Boston Whaler, 9' Boston Whaler
- Vessel Name
- Destiny
It was as if a giant artist had streaked the blue canvas with various shades of orange, yellow’s, pinks, and golds as the sun started it glorious journey across the crisp clear morning sky once again. At the same time, Maureen and I were to set upon our first true journey about Destiny. Our destination would be Cap Sante Marina in Anacortes. We were getting an early start as our destination was 70 miles north and our plan was to cruise at 7 knots. Simple math here tells you this was to be a ten-hour day.
We cast our lines ashore just a few minutes after five and made our way to the lock. Luck would be with us today as just as we rounded the corner, the signal for the lock turned green inviting us in.
The lock through went off without a hitch and we were soon making our way out into Puget Sound. The wind was no more than a light breeze out of the north creating a wind chop of less than a foot. As usual, traffic at this time of day was very light other than the container ship bound for Seattle and a tug with its tow that would shadow us all the way to Anacortes and then onto it final destination of Alaska.
As we made our way north toward Bush Point we spotted a blue R-27 racing across Admiralty Inlet bound for the east side to join the large fleet of fishing vessels. Since Dennis and Darlene live right around the corner from here with there R-27 “Tug of My Heart”, we assumed it to be them. We made a slight detour to check it out and sure enough it was Dennis along with a couple of buddies out doing a little Halibut fishing. We wished them the best of luck, got some nice photos of their boat for their album and continued our trip north.
We were not sure what we would encounter as far as the weather goes upon entering the Straits of Juan de Fuca. While the radio was calling for little or no breeze and no chop, we could not believe it would be so. We were delighted to find it was just as predicted! We have never seen the Straits so calm. They were like a giant mirror!
As we approached Deception Pass from the west, we kept an eye out for the participants of the “Round Whidbey” sailboat race. They were to come through Deception on slack water at 10:00 and it was now 10:30. Sure enough there they were. We had a friend who was participating in the race and had asked that we get some pictures of her sailboat as we passed by. Another little detour, a few more pictures, a friendly wave and toot of the horn and, once again, we were on our way to Anacortes!
Once the weather warmed, we moved from the pilothouse to the fly bridge for the remainder of our journey. Once we made the turn into Guemes Channel we were met with a 2.5 knot ebb current….. We observed that all of the other pleasure boats were running on the north side of the channel so we assumed that there was less of a current there. We moved across and sure enough, we gained a knot of speed.
Our approach and docking went off without a hitch in Cap Sante. Destiny was given a bath while Maureen straightened up inside and then it was up to the fly bridge to watch the sunset over a bottle of wine.
Destiny and I will be in Anacortes through Sunday the 20th. She will be the showboat for Waterline Boats in Trawler Fest. Maureen flies back to Denver this afternoon and then returns on Friday the 18th.
We cast our lines ashore just a few minutes after five and made our way to the lock. Luck would be with us today as just as we rounded the corner, the signal for the lock turned green inviting us in.
The lock through went off without a hitch and we were soon making our way out into Puget Sound. The wind was no more than a light breeze out of the north creating a wind chop of less than a foot. As usual, traffic at this time of day was very light other than the container ship bound for Seattle and a tug with its tow that would shadow us all the way to Anacortes and then onto it final destination of Alaska.
As we made our way north toward Bush Point we spotted a blue R-27 racing across Admiralty Inlet bound for the east side to join the large fleet of fishing vessels. Since Dennis and Darlene live right around the corner from here with there R-27 “Tug of My Heart”, we assumed it to be them. We made a slight detour to check it out and sure enough it was Dennis along with a couple of buddies out doing a little Halibut fishing. We wished them the best of luck, got some nice photos of their boat for their album and continued our trip north.
We were not sure what we would encounter as far as the weather goes upon entering the Straits of Juan de Fuca. While the radio was calling for little or no breeze and no chop, we could not believe it would be so. We were delighted to find it was just as predicted! We have never seen the Straits so calm. They were like a giant mirror!
As we approached Deception Pass from the west, we kept an eye out for the participants of the “Round Whidbey” sailboat race. They were to come through Deception on slack water at 10:00 and it was now 10:30. Sure enough there they were. We had a friend who was participating in the race and had asked that we get some pictures of her sailboat as we passed by. Another little detour, a few more pictures, a friendly wave and toot of the horn and, once again, we were on our way to Anacortes!
Once the weather warmed, we moved from the pilothouse to the fly bridge for the remainder of our journey. Once we made the turn into Guemes Channel we were met with a 2.5 knot ebb current….. We observed that all of the other pleasure boats were running on the north side of the channel so we assumed that there was less of a current there. We moved across and sure enough, we gained a knot of speed.
Our approach and docking went off without a hitch in Cap Sante. Destiny was given a bath while Maureen straightened up inside and then it was up to the fly bridge to watch the sunset over a bottle of wine.
Destiny and I will be in Anacortes through Sunday the 20th. She will be the showboat for Waterline Boats in Trawler Fest. Maureen flies back to Denver this afternoon and then returns on Friday the 18th.