May 30th Klemtu (Patty Reporting)
Left Shearwater maybe 9am… likely 9:30. Had a nice cruised. Weather was so good we decided to take outside route which saves 12 miles (over an hour for us dogs). It was a great wonderful day. We saw all things from a distance; whales, dal porpoises, otters, eagles etc….Arrived and anchored. Anchoring became stressful today. We moved 3 times but got “held” aka good holding on third attempt. It just seemed to finally “catch” (See tomorrow AM log jam). Walked around the bay and back. Baraka Bashad’s peops Rita and Vaughn came over for communal dinner… a feast it was: good food and good new friends. I do like the people and we will reach out again.
Klemtu Long House 
Water Dog at Klemtu
So I need to do better about anchoring notes. Klemtu. SMALL! Cannot do proper scope ratio thing as 62 feet deep but only 200 feet wide. Not much wind or current so we were not worried enough to put on anchor watch. We were not assertive enough to get tour of the long house in Klemtu. All I had to do was try the vhf radio channel but it was after 4pm when we got there so I hesitated and did not do.
On bringing up the anchor ended up with a large log on it so had to throw a line around one end of log, drop anchor down again from under neath and drop log off. In general if you can get the object up that is stuck on your anchor you can throw a line around it and drop your anchor to unfoul it. Was impressed our windlass brought the log up no problem.
May 31st Butedale
Arrive earliish as we left 7:45 AM. We had a log “jam” or delay due to hoisting a 10 foot long 2 foot diameter branching tree when anchor reached surface. Thought, executed plan and resolved (using anchor bridle)…but likely added 15 minutes to the day. Saw some nice waterfalls on the way to Butedale.
Anyhow I’d say we got here around 1pm at the latest. Docking was ok as usual. Wind, current boats to hit some fun! Had to do port tie. Alex did amazing per usual. All good. Other boat friends ran aground wedging boat between two rocks. We thought this boat had a keel but twas very small keel so Alex and Christof (the wharfinger) pulled them off with caretakers dingy. FYI Christof’s wife is Cameo, dog Shibu inu didn’t remember name. Butedale has put in a new dock and ramp so a good place to dock up for a day or two.
Beautiful waterfall next to dock but not visible while on dock. Walked the long abandoned cannery grounds. The place is a work in progress and Christof is working hard with his large back hoe and dozer to clean up the place. All has been torn down except one large (impressive) building and two small cabins. They are “renovating” property and it has been bulldozed to burry debris. Lots of seeps that look like they have oil or gas contamination. Lots of metal out of ground.
ButeDale View Up Dock 
Butedale Cannery Building 
Butedale Old Picture-1 
Butedale Old Picture-2
The wood beams used in the cannery are pretty amazing huge 50′ long monsters!
Took a walk down and around cannery then up back to old water driven generator plant but cannot walk to see waterfall but can go to the old mill house. As Kathy Smith had mentioned as soon as get away from the dock swarmed by flies and mosquitoes.
As we walked through all the old equipment was thinking it would be nice to know what all the some what strange looking pieces where used for, was hard to tell.
Shed Outside Cannery 
Old Cannery Equipment 
Cannery Storage Bins? 
Two Cabins Top Of Hill 
Old Water Driven Generation Plant
Also rained afternoon and evening. Rita and Vaughn had us over for dinner (turkey burgers) and we chatted a bit. Then they came over for a bit to look at weather Alex can down load to see what day may be good for their Haida Gwaii crossing. Looks like Tuesday will be best day for us and them to do our respective crossings (us to Ketchikan or Foggy bay and them to Haida Gwaii).