Trip Notes: The cruise went well for the four class members who attended. Quick start off the docks. Pretty windy, even in the locks where we rafted to larger boats in the large, north side lock. Once on the sound, the wind was pretty brisk. Charlotte double reefed the main and had the storm jib up front. Platypus double reefed the main and stayed with the lapper and was somewhat over powered on the crossing to Madison Bay. Winds measured at 23 knots.
Both boats tacked up Agate Pass with difficulty. Then we reached across Port Orchard and into Liberty Bay to the marina. All crew were pretty worn out from the rough crossing. Dinner ashore, etc.. then up early for breakfast and left the dock at about 10:00. With small craft warnings and high winds predicted, we saved time by motoring out of Liberty Bay then up sails for the run down Agate Pass with a 4 knot current and a 15 knot tail wind.
Once out on the sound, we had expected 25 knot winds but found them more like 15. Crossed to Shilshole, Charlotte pumped out and re-fueled. Locks were not a problem but it started raining pretty good as we motored back to the WAC.
Thanks to Nathalie, Karem, Larry, Darren, and Andy for doing all the hard work on this trip.
Crew Assignments:
| Name | Boat Out | Sleep | Bunk | Boat Back |
| Andy Meade |
Charlotte |
Charlotte | Starboard | Platypus |
| Kerem Karadayi |
Charlotte | Platypus |
Starboard | Platypus |
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| Larry Barroll |
Charlotte | Platypus | Vee | Platypus |
| Darren Reed |
Platypus | Charlotte | Q-berth | Charlotte |
| Scott Voltz |
Platypus | Platypus | Port | Platypus |
| Nathalie Voisin |
Charlotte | Charlotte | Port | Charlotte |
Bring:
The Trip:
Meet at the WAC by at least 09:00. If you get there early, go ahead and prep the boats.)
You will have to pay to park.
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 10:00…Use the restroom ashore before we go. We will proceed under the various bridges, stopping for the Fremont bridge, then on to the locks.
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, 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. Slack is at 13:00 then builds to a six knot flood at 16:50. We make our way to Liberty Bay and find space at the dock at the Poulsbo marina.We'll probably dock on the north side of dock E.
If the weather and wind are good and our timing is favorable, we can decide to go the long way. That's around the south end of Bainbridge Island through Rich Pass then up the Port Orchard channel. We can decide at Shilshole. If so, we'd be sailing along with many of the affilate boats as they make their way to Blake Island for the weekend.
Sunday morning we leave on a falling tide at 10:00 and must get through Agate Pass before 14:00. Back across Puget Sound to Shilshole, the locks and finally the WAC at sometime around 5:00 PM.
Saturday 13:32 Low -3.3
Saturday 21:13 High 12.6
Sunday 07:06 High 10.4
Sunday 14:21 Low -2.5
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."