We spent the week doing a Bremerton to Hood Canal and back trip. Moored at Kingston, Pleasant Harbor, and then one too many nights at Port Ludlow, due to weather. Day 3 at Ludlow, NOAA is calling for SCA but the wind hasn't picked up yet and we decide to make a run to Foulweather Bluff, then south to Brownsville. While crossing the mouth of Hood Canal, fighting seas to our beam, we hear the CG patrol ship address a pleasure boater, ordering him to widen his southbound course. The CG ship explains they are escorting a "naval unit." That means sub!!
Sure enough, we look south through the binocs and see two white superstructures and in between, the black mast of a boomer. And they are coming fast....20 knots at least.
We can do no better than eight knots due to the 44 horseys in my 27' Devlin. And....we're right in their path. To my surprise, they didn't radio me. That must have figured that my speed and course would take me out of their way, just in time....and it did. When they passed, we were very close to them and got some great camera shots. Definitely was the highlight of the trip!!!
Had we not been laid up at Ludlow, we'd missed the show. Now if only we can see a Carrier come or go... My life at sea would be complete. :>
-Greg
Sure enough, we look south through the binocs and see two white superstructures and in between, the black mast of a boomer. And they are coming fast....20 knots at least.
We can do no better than eight knots due to the 44 horseys in my 27' Devlin. And....we're right in their path. To my surprise, they didn't radio me. That must have figured that my speed and course would take me out of their way, just in time....and it did. When they passed, we were very close to them and got some great camera shots. Definitely was the highlight of the trip!!!
Had we not been laid up at Ludlow, we'd missed the show. Now if only we can see a Carrier come or go... My life at sea would be complete. :>
-Greg