Gonzaga Bay

Sept. 26th - On: We arrived in San Luis Gonzaga at about 8:30 pm on Wednesday, Sept. 26th, after a 38 hour crossing from San Carlos. At this time of the year you can typically count on a southerly to help you sail north, as we were intending. Well, as Wirewalker luck would have it, the first norther of the season met us on the nose and we had to crawl uphill to Gonzaga. Also being a full moon, the currents in the upper sea played a bit of havoc with our speed; 8 knots on hour, 3 knots another.
It was all good and we made it to Gonzaga about 90 minutes after sunset, to the greetings of about 15 of our friends.

Well, almost made it. As we dropped the anchor in front of Jim and Darda's place, the anchor chose to separate from the chain and we had to scramble. Fortunately, our second anchor was available to hook us and we went ashore. The next day, 6 of us: Jim, Darda, Sandy, Gary, Diane and Bill donned dive tanks and began the search for the anchor. Success! Diane found it fairly quickly, along with the hardware that caused the problem in the first place. By Thursday afternoon, we were hooked up with
our favorite anchor and back to playing with friends.

There's a wireless sat signal ashore so we'll try to send a more formal update from there shortly.