Sincerely, Denise

KLEWNUGGIT TO PRINCE RUPERT - UPDATED 5/30/25

Friday, May 29^th

We invested in top shelf all inclusive professional mariner medical kit this year which we obtained from Lafferty’s in Ballard. They mostly provide kits to commercial vessels but long-haul recreational boaters benefit from having a comprehensive kit, as we learned a couple years ago when John nearly severed his big toe by a hatch cover malfunction. Anyway, our new kit received its first customer yesterday after I sliced my finger chopping onions last night. You know how the layers of onions can be slippery, well the chef knife (which is a brand new very sharp set) slid right off that onion and onto my middle finger. How apropos. It bled for a long time, but isn’t all that serious, just made a fuss.

Today is exactly two weeks since we left port and we are right on schedule, in fact a day ahead of schedule. This morning we were greeted with blue skies and scattered clouds, but it’s shaping up to be a beautiful day! Heading to Prince Rupert for some light provisioning, fuel, a nice long walk, and dinner out.

Arrived at Prince Rupert around 1:00pm and while UnforgetAbell fueled up, Huntress and Far Niente found their moorings on the end tie at Prince Rupert Rowing and Yacht Club, a reciprocal marina to our MBYC. Kevin is the marina manager and is effusive in his descriptions and a delightful person! Soon UnforgetAbell was also securely at the dock, and we all decided to walk up to the grocery store because tomorrow it is supposed to rain. We made it as far as the head of the dock where the Breakers Pub is located and the vote was to duck in for lunch. By now it was 2PM, and lunch wasn’t served until around 2:30/2:45, so it became our “Linner” (Lunch and Dinner). Afterwards we walked up to Safeway and the Marine store to fetch a few items, and back to the boat around 4:30/5:00. Nap time for me, which ended up being the end of my day, too tired after that to do anything, eventually ending up reading into the night. John rallied Greg and went up to the Breakers for late evening snacks and beers. Our moorage here is exposed to the outside channel, and the local commercial boats don’t care about throwing a wake, so it rocked and rolled a bit throughout the evening. 

A beautiful morning leaving Klewnuggit

The most darling little tug boat towing just a few logs, he hailed us on the radio and asked if we would mind backing off speed when we passed him which of course we obliged. All about respecting other mariners.

Looking back at our flotilla as we exited Grenville Channel

Close Up of the cute tug

As we entered the channel where Prince Rupert is located the Eagles were feeding on something. I tried in vain to get good clear closeups of the Eagles but I suck at picture taking. I have a beautiful camera that I barely know how to operate. Sometimes I just get lucky