Going around Brooks

Right after I wrote my last blog post and commented about being all alone in Julian Cove 5 sailboats came in and anchored up! FIVE! Two together, then one, then two more together. They all left the next morning though.

We decided to stay another night and take the skiff down and go for a little explore about.

We hadn’t used the skiff since a test drive in Steveston. Jim gave the little prime pump ball a little squeeze before we were going to drop the skiff. And gasoline sprayed everywhere! The primer ball seems to have a bunch of fine cracks. Remember- whack a mole !

So. Fortunately Jim found a new gas line that he had bought with a tank in Sandspit in 2017. It never had the right connection for the outboard engine. But for some reason he kept the line on the boat.

So with much struggle he was able to get the primer ball off the new gas line and put it on the old gas line – which is actually only a year old as it was all replaced last summer. It should not have failed like that.

So a simple skiff ride has become a not so simple skiff ride.

After the second night in Julian Cove we got up at the crack of dawn and pulled the anchor to head to Klaskish Inlet, an anchorage just before the Brooks Peninsula. To set up to go around Brooks.

It was early. The weather and seas were unremarkable so instead we just carried on around Brooks. Lilly was medicated.

Three of the five sailboats that were in Julian Cove were traveling on the same track as us. We were following them for quite some time but we caught up and passed them before getting to the Bunsby’s.

There are a number of anchorages in the small group of islands that make up the Bunsby Islands. Last time we were here we anchored in a spot called Little Hollywood. A bit of a tricky entrance because the rocks on the chart are not in the correct position! All the sailboats when to another anchorage.

We will stay here for a few days. I’ve put out the hummingbird feeder. We saw two hummingbirds yesterday after we set the anchor.