Thursday May 31 2018
Trip Distance 104 nm
NOAA Marine Forecast
Today NW wind 5 to 15 kt. Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 4 ft at 9 seconds. A slight chance of showers in the afternoon.
Got out of Newport Marina by 05:30 for an early start on our longest leg for a day trip, we did the longest 160 nm leg over night to Crescent City. We arrived at Neah Bay Makah Marina at 19:00.
Had a pretty rough ride for the exit out the harbor since we had the ebb tide going out. Don’t ever underestimate what can happen on these bars when you cross even on a nice day like we had where the combo of 2’ wind waves with 4’ swell really rocked and rolled us even on a 58’ well found boat.
The rest of the ride was fairly smooth with just some small somewhat rough patches.
Sun came out by 0900 and we had some nice views of the Washington coast on the way up.
Around 13:50 Patty spotted 7-8 whale spouts off the port side so we got a few decent views of whales but they stayed pretty far off.
Arrived at Cape Flattery around 17:00 and got some good views of the Light House and rocks on our way by.
The next day we took a short walk around the Makah Mari and played a little chuck it with the dog’s before we left for John Wayne Marina for our next stop.
