We went for a latte and then departed Petersburg. Petersburg is in the northern end of Wrangell Narrows. We caught the tide right for the first half of our trip in the Narrows. We were riding the flood with a 3 kt push. We went as fast as 13.6 kts. It took us 2 hours to pass through the Narrows. We never saw a large vessel in there, fortunately. We usually would stop in Wrangell but the weather is so good we pass it up and head on. Fred ran the engines up to wide open throttle (WOT) in Sumner Straight. We reached 2750 RPM and 18.7 speed over ground (SOG). Zimovia Straight continued to be flat-calm. We were going to stop in Frosty Bay but since the cruising was so easy we continued to Santa Anna Inlet. We have never been here before. The inlet does not offer much protection from westerly winds but we tucked into the head of the inlet and were quite comfortable. Douglass (cruising manual) says that crabbing is good here so we put the dinghy down and placed the crab pots. We are near a waterfall but we can’t see it. We took the dinghy near shore and could see the waterfall hidden in a wooded area. It is such a nice sound.
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