Anna Leigh and Daydream to Ketchikan

On Sunday, Captain John Wooldridge, the senior editor with Motorboating and Yachting magazine flew into Ketchikan to join us for a few days of cruising. We had been asked by Jeff Messmer at C-Dory if we would mind having he and a photographer on board. They wanted to do an article about the C-Dory cruise to Ketchikan.

The photographer got side lined on another project and it is planned that he will be contacting us down along Vancouver Island early next week.

John arrived with camera equipment and note pads. We provided him with chart books and cruise books for the areas that we had decided to cruise. The Misty Fjord National Park and with-in that 2.2 million acres, Rudyerd Bay (Punchbowl Cove) and Walker Cove.

John quickly became one of the crew and for the most part no one really knew whether they were being interviewed or not. Every once in a while he would take a few minutes and make some notes.

He got a lot of good footage both from the boats and from my dingy. The weather was just what the area is named for. Did see some sun on the second day.

We delivered him back to Ketchikan on Wednesday and began our return trip home.
 
David,

Thanks for the posts on the trip. Sounds like a great trip. Will have to keep a look out for the M and Y Magazine.
Only one request---- How about the recipe for the Whiskey Crab Soup?

Pat,

Sounds like you guys got your exercise on that hike.

Have fun and keep up the posts.
 
Pat, David and crew,

Thanks for the reports and awesome photos. I especially liked the photo where Daydream and Anna Leigh were rafted together in Walker Cove. Sounds like all the C Brats taking the inside passage are having a great trip. Dee and I are planning 6 weeks taking the inside next summer!

Thanks for sharing your trip with us, :beer

Don
 
OK, Pat's recipe for Whiskey Crab Soup.

Catch some crab. Shell them. Take a sip of the whiskey. Jack Daniels or Evan Williams preferred.

Cut up some onions, melt half a cube of butter in a saucepan, saute the onions. Take another sip of the whiskey.

Add a quart of so of milk to the saucepan, and season to taste with Old Bay seasoning and salt and pepper. Heat to just below boiling. Drink a bit more whiskey.

When it is all nice and hot, throw in the crab meat and cut the heat. Drink some more whiskey, try to save some to add to the soup.

If there is any whiskey left, add it to the soup. Really, half a cup of whiskey is about right, more would not hurt - this is really an impressive flavor combination.

 
It is entirely possible that Capt. Wooldridge passed Patty and me in the K airport, he must have been arriving while we were waiting for our flight out...really sorry to have missed our 15 minutes of fame, the drinks and dinner at Annabelle's, and not to have had the pleasure of meeting him. We have been told that this will be a feature in the January issue of Motorboating. We shall all just have to wait and see I guess.


Anna Leigh":9ts1m0th said:
On Sunday, Captain John Wooldridge, the senior editor with Motorboating and Yachting magazine flew into Ketchikan to join us for a few days of cruising. We had been asked by Jeff Messmer at C-Dory if we would mind having he and a photographer on board. They wanted to do an article about the C-Dory cruise to Ketchikan.
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WOW..... Great stuff guys....and while yall are enjoying your trip up there in Alaska... I "baked" a couple of Alaskans in Bama on Lake Martin. Rick and Donna made it to Alabama from Alaska...stopping along the way to pick up their C-Dory...which will be named Foggy Dew. We had no fog, 97 degrees, no clouds, a pair of "noodles"....of which they propmtly went out and bought a pair of today for their boat.... and we did have a blast. So many ways to enjoy our C-Dory boats....just too many miles between wonderful water holes. I am for sure enjoying all our C-Dory owning friends and their posts. Great stuff....great boats....great folks...

Byrdman in Bama (today)
 
The Wi-Fi was not running when David got back down to Sullivan Bay, he finally found an internet connection in Campbell River, where he is today. Both Daydream and Anna Leigh went through Nakwato Rapids at high slack, and the Motorboating photographer was in a helicopter, communicating by radio. Apparently the photo shoot went well. David said the photographer assured him we would be getting copies of the photos. Should be spectacular. The two boats then parted company, with David heading south at a good clip, and Rolf and Dave on Daydream staying inside to explore some of those 150 miles of previously uncharted waterways (the Canadian Hydrographic Service just recently released charts for this area). I really am not sure when they intend to get back - guess it will be fine as long as they are back in time for us to do the Bellingham CBGT! Here are a couple of pix David just emailed.

Daydream at Prince Ruppert Yacht Club
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Daydream at Ocean Falls
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Pat,
I'm glad the trip is going well for Day Dream and Anna Leigh. Thanks for the reports.
I can't believe the luck they are having with the weather though! The pictures of Prince Rupert and Ocean Falls show beautiful blue skies. Both those place get some of the highest rainfall on the coast. Double that of Seattle or Vancouver. Lucky or what. Hope the wind and waves were as good as the sunshine.
Ron
 
Anna Leigh got home yesterday at noon. Spent a little time today with pics and this diary of the trip. I have added and deleted from day one and done a spell check finally. So here is Day 21-30.
 

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David & Pat,
This looked like a great adventure. I've been interested in the Belize, Seymour area for some time. Glad that you put your nose in there David. How long did it take to run back to Sullivan Bay area from there? Pat, I'd like to hear about the area from the guys that took Daydream into it.
Lyle
 
David,

Great info on your trip mileages and gas used, thanks. It appears you're doing somewhat better than my twin Yami's! And I would think your boat was somewhat fully loaded and then some for such a trip to boot. Any idea what your most economical cruising speed was? I think mine is about 16-18 nmph, but don't have a flo-scan to know for sure.
 
Lyle, We left Allison Harbor, just 10 minutes from the entrance to Nakwakto Rapids, at 0500. Arrived at Sullivan Bay at 0715. Needless to say we made good time as the waters were quite calm. Probably averaged 20 MPH.

Dora Jean,

I had been set on MPH the whole trip. My best two ranges seemed to be about 4200 RPMs and Navman would show about 3.2-3.4. Also at 5200 I got about the same.
 
There is a discrepancy between what the Navman shows as instantaneous mileage and true mileage (actual miles per gallon, divide total miles traveled by total gallons used). If you look at David's log for the trip up, he used something like 369 gallons for 905 miles - that computes to 2.45 mpg, regardless of what the Navman shows for instantaneous mileage. His log shows gallons used and engine hours but not miles traveled after that, but I will wager he was in that 2.4 mpg range overall. I do not have my fuel log with me, it is on board the boat at C-Dory at the moment, but I computed fuel economy for each fill, and mine was around 2.2 mpg, although I too had Navman instantaneous readings over 3 (although not as high as David's). I was heavier (3 people and their gear instead of 2), and David was possibly better propped, although my ProPulse is MILES ahead of the factory supplied prop.

Anna Leigh":3gpu52hv said:
Dora Jean,

I had been set on MPH the whole trip. My best two ranges seemed to be about 4200 RPMs and Navman would show about 3.2-3.4. Also at 5200 I got about the same.
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Patty towed Daydream into C-Dory Monday for the "200" hour service (I think we are at about 320 actual hours, hour meter shows 370 from the time I left the ignition key on for a couple of days in the driveway!) and some gelcoat repairs. Assessing the condition after the trip, NO "garden" on the bottom of the boat, although it had been in the water for a month and a day by the time we hauled her out at Blaine last Thursday, 7-13-06, just lots of growth on the trim tabs which was easy to clean off. We had two gelcoat "owwies" - a little one from David's anchor when his engine quit while he was approaching to raft and a BIG one on the bottom of the hull when Rolf ran her up on a rock at Smuggler Cove - he actually had to jump in the water to get her off the rock apparently. Dave and Rolf also somehow lost the mushroom cap for the Nicro vent that we have on the Airhead, and I am pretty sure that a bit of water got down the vent and into the solids tank, accounting (sorry guys) for the odors noticed on the dock at Bellingham - the Airhead needs only a slightly moist condition in the solids tank to compost properly and stops functioning if there is too much liquid. Maybe this is TMI (!) but when properly functioning, the Airhead IS basically odor-free.
 
Guys this is great stuff.... and no Pat...that is not TMI... those are real life usage issues/happenings. This is what makes our site REAL... you do not see these topics in the shinny slicks and brochures at the boat shows.

Oh...Pat... we know you were/are heavier than David... :mrgreen:

I sure wish I could have made this trip. I have printed out all the Alaska C-Dory stuff the whole gang of you are posting and sending me via email. This is going to take me to the NW again some day on another boat for sure.

All thow the monies spent on fuel is up there.... these were AWESOME trips....on your own boats...and still about 1/2 the price of a one week with 2,000 other folks on board trip...and their schedule instead of your own. :thup :smiled :D

Great job gang....and just what are/when the articles we should be looking for to be published.... If they are west coast pubs...then I am gonna need some help gettng one down here for sure.

Byrdman...preping to head to Canada for a week...without my boat. :sad
 
Byrdman":1nwzofe9 said:
still about 1/2 the price of a one week with 2,000 other folks on board trip...and their schedule instead of your own. :thup :smiled :D
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Indeed. Good to put it in perspective, Pat. Plus ya didn't have to dress up to have dinner with the Captain and ya didn't have to diet to lose the 20 lbs gained on one of those cruises.

Don
 
Here are the actual numbers. Pat is correct on the trip up at 905 miles and 369 gal. = 2.45 MPG

The trip around Revillegigedo Is. used 90 gallons at 285 miles for 3.1.

The overall figure for the whole trip was 2234 miles and 807 gallons for an overall MPG of 2.77.
 
Those are some sweet numbers David particuarly for a "loaded for travel" vessel. Bet there aint no Sea Rays in the 25-26 range with those kinda numbers.

Sending you an email with requested info from our phone call the otherday.

Byrdman
 
I doubt that Dave and Rolf continued to log miles and gallons but based on when I left on June 25th, we were no doubt in the overall 2.2 - 2.3 mpg range...it is possible (likely?) their preference for 7 knot cruising increased that a bit on the way home!

Anna Leigh":a9et4sil said:
The overall figure for the whole trip was 2234 miles and 807 gallons for an overall MPG of 2.77.
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