KB Novice overnight cruise May 13 - 14
to Poulsbo Washington in Liberty Bay

Skippers:

1. Scott Voltz- Rascal
2. Nathalie Viosin - Charlotte
3. Keith Dekker - Platypus
4. Dan Callahan - Frenesi

Frenesi, a Cal 34 will be joining our cruise!

Crew Assignments:

The Plan:

Bring:

• Warm sleeping bag.
• Poly Pro / Fleece / Rain Gear. Wool works well also.
• Flashlight or battery lantern.
• Cell phone, if you have one.
• Charts and other references if you have them.
• Water – at least two liters. Personal beverages at your discretion.
• Two cold lunches and some extra snacks. We will try for dinner out at Poulsbo and breakfast ashore. Everyone is on their own for shore meals. No reservations are made anywhere.
• $ 12 each to cover boat rental and docking fees at Poulsbo.
• Sun screen, a hat, sunglasses.
• Games, music, music player.
  

The Trip:

Meet at the WAC by at least 08:30. If you get there early, go ahead and prep the boats.)
You will have to pay to park.

At the WAC, Alexia completes the checkout form for Rascal and Mike completes the checkout for Charlotte.
Lorraine will start and keep the log for Rascal. Youyi will start and keep the log for Charlotte. Eric will start and keep the log for Frenesi.

Stow your gear ( in a closed bag, please )
Bring a PFD from the sail locker or from home.
Set up Charlotte and Rascal with fuel, battery, sails, and cushions.

Leave WAC by 09:00… This means we will all have to be on time and move fast! Do not be late, you will have 15 people all waiting on you. Use the restroom ashore before we go.

Charlotte, Rascal, and Frensei will leave from theWAC.
Charlotte and Rascal stop for the Fremont Bridge. Frensei is taller and will be stopping for many more bridges.
We will check the tide level to see if we can get under the BNrailroad Bridge without having it raised. 
We monitor VHF Channel 16 and do all our talking on Channel 69.

We head across Puget Sound to Madison Bay where we will meet up with Platypus, then turn west and go through Agate Pass. Agate is a narrow body of water that runs fast when the tide floods or ebbs. We must catch either slack tide or the flood tide or we won't be able to get through. We make our way to Liberty Bay and find space at the dock at the Poulsbo marina. I've got reservations there at E-25, E-27, E29, and E30 on the north side of dock E.

Sunday morning we leave on a falling tide at 10:00 and must get through Agate Pass before noon. Back across Puget Sound to Shilshole, the locks and finally the WAC at sometime around 5:00 PM.

Agate Pass currents
Liberty Bay currents
Liberty Bay tides

Be on time and well prepared.  While sailing try to anticipate what is needed on the boat you are on: Lines, sheets, fenders, boat traffic.

Liberty Bay is a bay of the Kitsap Peninsula. It is an arm of Port Orchard. Poulsbo lies at the north end of the bay.

Its official name is Dogfish Bay, due to a high population of dogfish. According to the Kitsap Peninsula Visitor and Convention Bureau's Web site: "Despite pleas of Poulsbo residents, the Legislature in 1893 and 1899 refused to change the official title of Dogfish Bay to Liberty Bay. The present name was adopted through general usage. The original name was a location tie-in to the bayshore plant Harry Drescott operated in the 1860s. It used dogfish oil to grease the logs that made up lumber camp skid roads."

Weather Report:  +++++ 
SAT AND SUN  N WIND 10 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 1 OR 2 FT. HIGHEST WIND AND WAVES AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.
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Tides at Port Jefferson, Washington 47.7450° N, 122.4767° W

Port Jefferson is no the north side of Madison Bay across the sound from Shilshole.

2006-05-13 4:30 AM PDT 9.88 feet High Tide
2006-05-13 5:34 AM PDT Sunrise
2006-05-13 11:44 AM PDT -1.53 feet Low Tide
2006-05-13 7:10 PM PDT 10.66 feet High Tide
2006-05-13 8:38 PM PDT Sunset

2006-05-14 12:15 AM PDT 6.90 feet Low Tide
2006-05-14 4:57 AM PDT 9.89 feet High Tide
2006-05-14 5:33 AM PDT Sunrise
2006-05-14 12:19 PM PDT -2.04 feet Low Tide
2006-05-14 7:53 PM PDT 10.94 feet High Tide
2006-05-14 8:40 PM PDT Sunset