Matthew Rejoins Fleetwing

Ahoy mates its me Matt. Today I have set off on my journey. It was wakeup, change and up on deck and Grandpa gave me an honorary FLEETWING jacket (like on Deadlist Catch). We were traveling for 5 or so hours. I was reading for most of the time. When we arrived there were some thunder storms strong enough that we went below. Then we had dinner Nana and I washed the dishes and on to writing this. More tomorrow.

As you can see, Matthew earned his crew jacket today. After an exasperating afternoon yesterday of trying to get the A/C to work, I found it was clogged with vines and eventually I found that by putting a hose on the inlet and letting blast, it cleared the blockage. This morning we got off around 9:00 and motored south to the Hook Mt anchorage. Click on Fleetwing Location at left to see where that's at. It's well protected from a northwest wind which is predicted for tonight although it's quite calm at present. There were thunderstorms all around us but none hit us. The river traffic was quite sparse compared to past years. Perhaps the cost of fuel is having an effect. Tomorrow it's off to Hell Gate and points beyond!