Another great Sunset
Beautiful!
The anchor Mike helped pull up
Dawn in Shearwater
We leave our favorite little fishing hole and head up to Shearwater, enroute, Mike hears a "Pan Pan" on the radio of a boat that we have just passed in a "no name" bay that we have stayed at in the past and we have nick named "Dukies Beach" - this is also the bay where we have had the "Northern Caber Toss" games with friends (Craig and Marion)- Mike turns the boat around and heads back to see if we can assist. The boat "Pacific Song" - 65' long passagemaker has the identical problem we had last year in Roscoe Bay - his Anchor Winch is stripped and his anchor has freewheeled to the bottom of the ocean. Luckily they are only in 45' of water and he only has @70' of chain and the rest is cable. We tie along side of her and between Paul (the Captain) and Mike they manage to use their dinghy winch and are able to pull about 150' of cable and the 70' of chain plus the "300 lb." anchor from the murky depths. After must groaning and straining, the two gentleman have a system in place with the winch and all ended up well. It was only a 2 beer fix! We headed off to Shearwater and after laundry and general clean up, we had a nice pizza dinner in the pub. The facility is full and we have to raft against Raven Spirit. In talking to the dock master (Jeannie) we find out that they have had a banner year with being full all of June and most of July - we quickly make a reservation for our return visit at the end of the month when I am flying home for an overnight trip to Vancouver.
We talked via Radio to Lloyd and Sandy from BYC who are having battery life problems and they will be heading south to Port Hardy to re-battery.
Off to Idle point for a day and night of fishing - Mike heard they are limiting out within hours there! I don't know how much more meat I can take out of the freezer to make room!
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