The Further Adventures of Wild Blue

Lost Petrel

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Lost Petrel · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 5:35 pm Post subject: Last PNW cruise update for awhile

In Refuge Cove heading out into WiFi free zones Wink

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Lost Petrel · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 6:07 pm Post subject: Posting from Homfray Channel

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Lost Petrel · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 9:36 pm Post subject: Orcas

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Lost Petrel · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 12:26 pm Post subject:

Back in soggy Anacortes

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Lost Petrel · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:38 am Post subject:

At home now after an uneventful drive back to California.

Doing routine maintenance, trying out "303 Fabric Guard" on the Camperback.

Sunbeam · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:05 pm Post subject:

Glad you got home uneventfully after your first cruise. That's a great idea for how to set up the camperback to treat it without having to worry about overspray onto boat, etc. Thumbs Up

Lost Petrel · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:28 pm Post subject:

Yes, the bimini was the easy part, the side panels were done flat down with vinyl masked. Their water repelancy is not quite as critical, so they did not get the soaking the top did.

Lost Petrel · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 11:43 am Post subject: Lake Powell 2015

Our drive down to Lake Powell was pleasantly uneventful. I guess I had allowed three days travel but did it in two, arriving a day before my reservation. That turned out to be no problem we still managed to get the coveted “C1” RV site at Wahweap.

Temps were in the 90’s and we ended up spending three days prepping the boat and seeing if any other C-Brats showed. Finally Sunday the 13th we could stand it no longer and launched in the morning. This was my first ramp launch with the C-Dory, and it was relatively pain free. We knew we had a few days of possible Storms ahead of us so we wanted to find a good safe anchorage which we did in Gunsight Bay.

We had our three point anchoring which kept us secure but nervous during the gusts that came from all directions. For the first day most of the cells passed to our south, but the second night culminated in an extraordinary hour long 360* light show in the middle of the night.

When it looked like things were settling down the next day we moved on up lake to Labyrinth and Face canyon, finally finding a wonderful “niche” anchorage in Face which turned out to be our favorite site of the trip. We paddled our kayak up to the end of the slot canyon only to be waked, or I should say “washing machined” by jet skis in a narrow part of the canyon on the way out. (no photos too busy hanging on).

After two days at Face we headed up river into the Rock Creek drainage, there were three arms to it and after checking them all out we settled on an anchorage that had great views but but somewhat exposed to boat traffic going by.

The next day from Rock Creek we headed up river to Little Oak Canyon to meet up for the C-Brats get together. The lower lake level made it a little difficult to actually find the spot but we did. The C-Brats are a great bunch and we immediately felt welcomed.

Little oak Canyon provided not only a great beach for the group, but good hiking further up the canyon.

After a great couple of pot lucks we took off again on our own to check out the Escalante River. On the way up the Escalante we went into the “Cathedral in the Desert” arm and as we were coming out we ran into Jay and Jody and we fell in right behind them towards the end of the Escalante.

Though the water was shallow and muddy, the island provided a great beach to camp on.

We stayed two nights, first night sharing it with Jay on Hunky dory, and Jody on Voyager.

We took the kayak down to explore into Explorer Canyon.

The next day they went on up lake, but Steve and Diana on Constant Craving and Brent and Dixie on Discovery rolled in to share the spot the next night.
From there went up to Iceberg Canyon with expectation to go to Halls for water and ice the next day, but we ended up liking the spot so much we stayed for a couple of nights.

From that point we decided to just go back by Dangling Rope for supplies and find another anchorage down river. That isn’t always so easy to do because the lake is so packed with houseboats towing multiple ski boats, jests etc. And just to make it more interesting one of them decided to abandon a ski rope in the middle of the channel which on leaving early we narrowly missed turning off the engine just before it wrapped on the prop. We ended up in Dungeon Canyon with an adequate but shallow beach anchorage.

I had been noticing a decrease in the cooling system indicator stream since the Escalante and when we left Dungeon, it was almost non-existent. We had been planning to stay on the lake through the weekend to avoid the crowds at the ramp, but decided to head on towards the Wahweap and pull out. As it turned out later the decrease was just because of a plugged stream indicator, but the retrieval at the ramp which I had been dreading having never done it before went surprisingly well. Unfortunately having not expected to take out therefore not making a reservation for Friday the campground was full so it was earlier enough we just packed things away while in the parking lot and hit the road making it to Barstow the first night and home the second.

hardee · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 12:39 pm Post subject:

What a spectacular write up.... Thanks so much. Really making me want to plan this one for next year again.

Harvey
SleepyC Moon

Hunkydory · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 5:21 pm Post subject:

Tim & Mary, Excellent write up & photos. It sure was fun sharing time with you two, talking boating ect. & reminiscing & being brought up to date on Potter Valley, especially where you live over the hill. We checked out the blog photos of your house before & after. The setting was already there, but absolutely amazing is the house transformation.

Hope to see you there, back at Powell or up in the PNW in the future.

The Wild Blue couldn't have found a better couple to keep the story ongoing.

Jay

jkidd · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:43 pm Post subject:

Great pictures and write up. Thanks for the great time and look forward to boating with you in the future.

thataway · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:48 pm Post subject:

Wonderful photos, and adventure log. Good to meet you both--fit right in with us Brats! Wild Blue (err…Lost Petrol is in great hands to continue the tradition! Jim wrote us when he had sold the boat that we were going to like you guys! Absolutely! Great addition to the family!

Larry Patrick · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:54 pm Post subject:

Tim and Mary Congratulations on nice boat, Jim and Joan hope you are still going to be boating? Just read this thread and was surprised,thanks for all the write ups along your travels.

Lost Petrel · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 2:13 pm Post subject: Broughtons or Bust

So we are off on our cruise north. With an uneventful launch at Anacortes

We then made a quick trip over to Friday harbor to see Jim and Joan.
(Jim will have to supply proof as i did not take a picture of us)

We then crossed over and made way up through the Gulf Islands to Nanaimo.

Where we wait now for a calm day to transit the Strait.