Position: 48 degrees, 32 minutes north; 123 degrees, 01 minutes west

Yup, dropped the dock lines and headed to our first stop – Friday Harbor on San Juan island.

At anchor, Friday Harbor

Th trip over here took about 4 hours under power. No wind. But it went pretty much as planned except a three knot ebb current (going with us) got us to the pass at Cattle Point early, so we had a two knot current against us going through.

Got to Frday Harbor right at low tide which meant we could pick a good spot. The bottom comes up really fast, so we set in 30 feet and with 140 feet of chain out stretched back into 13 feet. Since we’re at dead low tide, it won’t get any shallower than that and will in fact go up some 8-10 feet at high tide.

I’m going to have to get used to setting the anchor in the mud they have up here. We’ve been dropping in sand for the last five years which is easy to set, but the mud (I think) is going to take a bit of a different technique. Our CQR anchor dragged a while before digging in. We’ll see – it’s set hard now – may be a challenge to get out!