Day 30: Flotilla to Alaska - Red Bluff Bay to Warm Springs Bay
by Laura Domela and Sam Landsman 6 Jun 2019 20:12 PDT
7 June 2019
Flotilla on the dock at Warm Springs Bay © Laura Domela
Red Bluff Bay to Warm Springs Bay is about 21nm, straight up Chatham Strait. As we mentioned yesterday, Chatham Strait can be challenging, and even 10-15 knots of wind can make for a bumpy ride. But we emerged from Red Bluff Bay to find another calm and glassy day on Chatham.
Safe Harbour and Airship (and Jester, because he's an early bird) headed out just before 7:00 a.m. The dock at Baranof Warm Springs fills quickly, and our hope was to arrive early and work out a plan for getting the other boats tied up. Rafting is common at the dock, so if we could score space, the others could raft to us.
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