S/V Acacia

Arrival at Elliot Bay Marina in Seattle.  Photos by Sharon Brunzel.

More pictures coming soon.

Getting close!

Bob

We arrived in Port Townsed around 9:30pm last night. It was a very long day. We got up at 5am and left Neah Bay. Little wind, we motored all the way. The weather was clear, we could see Mt. Baker and a little of Mt. Ranier. The clear weather should continue today.

We are leaving for Seattle shortly. Hope to arrive late afternoon

We have how gone 3003 miles.

Current position is:

48 06.4 N
122 46.4 W

Bob

Acacia arrived last night in Port Townsend. They plan to leave early this morning to sail to Seattle, where they will dock at the elliott bay marina.

We docked at Neah Bay marina at 4pm. Now off to hot showers and a nice dinner.

My cell phone (AT&T) doesn’t work here, but they have wireless Internet.

Bob

This may be our last night on the Pacific Ocean. If we can maintain our current speed and course, we should reach the strait of Juan de Fuca in the late morning. Our current plan is to not stop at Neah Bay and continue down the strait to Port Angeles. This should allow us to reach Seattle the following evening.

This is, of course, very dependent on our arrival time into the strait to make the flood current. If we get there too late, we will stop in Neah Bay. Wish us all good wind in the right direction!

We are starting to see some signs of land, pieces of kelp floating in the water, a fishing boat, and different kinds of birds (Tern’s I think). Other than that we live in a small grey world. It’s been complete cloud cover for the past few days, with occasional light showers. More rain is likely tonight.

Our current position is

Lat: 47 19.0 N
Lon: 126 48.6

We are all very excited about reaching landfall.

Bob

We are making good progress. The wind came up yesterday evening and has been good since. We even had to reduce sail somewhat. We are currently headed toward Juan de Fuca at about 6.5 knots.

Our current position is:

LATITUDE: 45-41.95N
LONGITUDE: 129-48.19W

We have about 260 miles to go. If this continues we think we should make landfall on Saturday. Still somewhat variable given the weather.

Today we had grey skies and light rain most of the morning and early afternoon. I had rain on my watch in the morning and now that Steve is one watch it stopped raining and it looks like the sun is trying to come out. The irony, is that Steve likes the rain and I don’t….

We are all looking forward to making landfall and seeing everyone. We realized yesterday that the three of us, Steve, Chris, and myself, have been living on the boat for about a month, given the time we spent in Hawaii getting ready.

Bob