Sometimes the Moon just lines up for you.

Moon set over the Olympic mountains on our way out the Puget Sound

We left Edmonds early Tuesday morning and covered did the 100 miles to Neah Bay in record time, about 15 hours.  We got about 3 hours of SE winds in the central straits that gave us some slow sailing but mostly motored. Because of the full moon and a lot of luck, we had the currents with us for nearly the whole day. Something almost impossible to plan. In a slow going sailboat, a couple of knots of current pushing makes lot of difference.  

Mount Rainier a 1/2 hour after we left Edmonds

This is the log that our friends Steve, Maria and Owen on Saben ran into off of Port Angeles the day before. They will be traveling down the coast with us to San Fran. It was nice to show up in Neah Bay at night and have some friendly hands to grab the dock lines.

The incoming freighters and container ships traveling in the Straits of Juan de Fuca are really impressive - both their size and their speed. You see them coming from way off and stand way clear.

Late arrival at Neah Bay

We'll leave Neah Bay today. Tentative plan is to sail for a couple of days, probbly to Newport, OR. Then wait out some expected winds before heading south again San Fran is about 650-700 miles from where we are now.
Fair winds-
Chris & Paul

Paul