We left Khutze Inlet into bright hot sunshine again for the long run down to Shearwater. The run was uneventful until we reached the base of Finlayson Channel and moved into Millbank Sound. At that point we encountered pea soup ocean fog and were never so glad for our GPS and radar units. We steered a course around Millbank Sound into Seymour Passage with very little visual contact to let us know we were on the right track. It was a bit disorienting to say the least. All equipment worked well and we finally broke out of the fog about halfway down Seymour Passage to Shearwater.
We landed in Shearwater and Jeanie the dockmaster was good enough to squeeze us in for the night and give us power on the dock. We were happy to be all tied up after our recent anchoring adventures and decided to stay an extra day to get in some R&R. Later in the evening, Wayne and Cathy our friends at BYC arrived aboard Sambuca with the some sad news they had received from the coastguard. Cathy's mom had passed away so they had to grab a flight out the next morning and leave their boat in Jeanie's care at Shearwater. Too bad.
The next day dawned particularly foggy in Shearwater until about 10:00 Am when the hot sun returned and we had a really nice day spending time with some folks we met on the next boat from San Francisco. Later on Bill Wheeler and his wife Eileen from BYC arrived aboard Ceilidh I so we have really seen a number of fellow members in our travels which is really kind on neat.
We are going for dinner tonight on Dave and Betsy's boat, our friends from San Francisco. They have a beautiful 54 foot custom made steel hull pilothouse motoryacht. We had the cook's tour earlier, it is very well designed, particularly the engine room although Nance seemed to prefer other parts more.
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