Wednesday afternoon, when I stepped inside from picking currants, I found a message on my phone. My brother Dave and his wife, Anke, had called to say they had just passed the Chilkat Islands, and were headed our way!
They have been sailing north from Juneau over the past week at a leisurely pace, lingering at favorite anchorages along the Chilkat Range. They planned to arrive here sometime before Sunday, when we all have a date to help set up the Southeast Alaska State Fair. I had assumed that they would come in on Thursday’s predicted 25 knot southerlies, but they arrived sooner.
S/V Slacktide clears the “homestead’s” southern point (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
