Another very cold (and moderately windy) night, but no complaints. Didn’t drag the rest of the night after resetting. Woke up to some cool evaporation fog (very low to the ground wispy fog) and more ice on deck. Made some coffee, entered some way points, hauled up the anchor (must get windless) and was off, covered in stinky mud, pre-dawn, and headed for Seattle.

Morning in Port Ludlow

Leaving Port Ludlow was a breeze since I hooked up my laptop below decks with my hand held and had real time plotting on the charts… should have done this before.

Laptop setup below decks, held in with a bungee

Colvos Rocks at the entrance to Port Ludlow… icy decks

Very uneventful trip down to Edmonds.

Edmonds Ferry and the ever present glare of sailing south in the winter

After Edmonds I tried cutting in front of a container ship, who, apparently didn’t think I was going to make it and gave me four blasts (collision warning), which had me doing a 180 by the second horn. Ooops…

A few hours later I was coming into Seattle. I was pretty exhausted and really nervous about docking (I’ve always been on moorings, anchors or T-slips [or wasn't the one docking]). I spent some time practicing maneuvers out in the harbor (outside Elliot Bay Marina) but it didn’t help. Even with some help from Elliot Bay docking was an ordeal, not helped by the jack ass motor boaters who were hauling around like this was a mall parking lot.

After 3 days, Seattle comes into view.

I’ve since read about tricks for maneuvering single screw trawlers in tight quarters and will have to practice that next time. Got in around 2, tidied up, caught a cab to King County Airport, drove home, ordered pizza and didn’t get out of bed until 2pm the next day… guess I over did it. But, for a first trip on this boat, it couldn’t have gone better.

36.9 miles in 7:20 for an average speed of 5.0mpg