WE ROSE EARLY FOR OUR BIGGEST CROSSING YET ABOARD HERON: 12 hours and approx 80 miles from the southern tip of Haida Gwaii to Aristazabal Island. Again, after a week of gorgeous weather on Haida Gwaii (especially after the prior week's relentless rain), this was unbelievably lucky.
It was an exhilarating sail with 20-25 knots off the beam and Heron handling exceedingly well surfing a following sea...
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| Close Call! |
BIG Highlight: Jeff was at the helm, autopilot engaged, when this whale suddenly spouted in front of us, crossed directly beneath our bow, from port to starboard, his enormous tail fluke brushing along side of the hull. There was no time to disengage the autopilot and steer away, and thrilled as we were, we were also unnerved to have been nearly hit by the leviathan. (Cool as they are, we don't want to be sunk by one!) A beautiful fellow, he then turned and swam beside us for a while... Wow.
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