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The Coast Survey's Role in the Hurricane Delta Response

NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey has concluded its hydrographic survey response following Hurricane Delta. At the immediate request of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), NOAA’s navigation response teams (NRTs) and NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson surveyed areas within the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW), Calcasieu Ship Channel, and the entrance to the channel. With lessons learned from the response to Hurricane Laura — the first major hurricane of the 2020 season and the first hurricane response during a pandemic — the teams and Thomas Jefferson successfully collected, processed, and delivered data to the USACE, identifying significant hazards to navigation and helping to ensure the timely reopening of waterways.

Delta made landfall along Louisiana’s coast as a Category 2 storm on Friday, October 9. By the afternoon of October 10, the NRTs were on the water, surveying many of the same areas they surveyed following Hurricane Laura including Devil’s Elbow, GIWW from the West Lock Gate of Calcasieu Lock to the toe of the Devil’ Elbow Reach, GIWW from intersection of Calcasieu River to LA 27 Bridge, and a portion of the Calcasieu River. They even had the opportunity to check in on National Ocean Service assets such as water level stations and tide gages. 

Mission complete with merely 12 hours on the water.  NRT-Stennis and NRT-Fernandina Beach vessels tied up at the Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC) facilities each evening after completing data acquisition (NOAA)

Coast Survey had a different strategy to collect and process data this time around in order to keep safe social distancing from one another and follow protocols with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. Coast Survey established separate data acquisition and processing teams along with a data runner in between. This allowed for a quicker turnaround between data collection and processing to report results to the USACE for reopening the channel.

NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson arrived on the scene after breaking with their Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary survey on the evening of October 11. The ship surveyed the complete Bar Channel from mile 0 to -32.5. Most, if not all Aids to Navigation were off station and the presence of a floating oil rig aground in the channel made the response particularly difficult. Thomas Jefferson found a sunken barge that stood approximately three meters off the seafloor. The least depth above the barge was nine meters in a 12 meter channel. Thomas Jefferson compared data NOAA collected from the Hurricane Laura response and verified that the barge was a new wreck. 

  NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson Launch 2904 surveying the Bar Channel, Calcasieu, Louisiana Approach.

Chartlet identifying the location of the sunken barge delivered to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Not for navigation.

Diverting a large hydrographic vessel from its planned project schedule to emergency work is a heavy logistical lift. Even under the best circumstances, last-minute changes to port call locations and timing affect crew rotation plans, critical food and supply deliveries, and maintenance planning.  However, because of the COVID risk mitigation protocols, including shelter-in-place requirements and COVID testing phases, planning an urgent and safe response to Hurricane Delta was especially challenging and required close coordination among Coast Survey, the ship, Marine Operations Center – Atlantic, and  NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations.

This article appears courtesy of NOAA and may be found in its original form here. 

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Salish Sea Pilot rebuilds and redesigns for 2018

Our favorite cruising guides for the Pacific Northwest just got a makeover. Check out what’s new with the Salish Sea Pilot…

Reworking our Salish Sea Pilot guides has been a delightful obsession since the summer.

Overhauling our Salish Sea Pilot cruising guides in time for the boat show season has been a wild ride. We have worked some crazy long hours, not only making the usual updates to marina and anchorage coverage, but also redesigning and rewiring the five editions.

Everything has taken a backseat to this. Our blogging fell off a cliff. Cruising suffered. In-laws ate alone.

Why the change? Cruisers who use our guides have been very kind with us, and helpful in the extreme, but every once in a while someone will note that perhaps the pages didn’t fit their laptop the same way they fit their tablet or phone. Or they sometimes got confused or had difficulty moving around when using a page that had two, sometimes three, anchorages.

Chartlet from Salish Sea Pilot’s Cruising Guide to the Gulf Islands. Not to be used for navigation.

So we shifted the orientation of our pages to landscape, so not only would they better present on tablets and big-screen phones, they would also better fit laptop screens which so many cruisers use for navigation.

Read the full post of Salish Sea Pilot.

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Destinations: Eastsound feels bigger than it is

Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com…

Framed by Indian Island on the right and the county dock on the left, a trimaran has a view south down Orcas Island’s East Sound. (Photo by CAD Graphics Inc.)

Approaching the stillness of Fishing Bay and the cover of Madrona Point at the northern end of East Sound, a quiet tumble of stately homes along the shore suggests idyllic serenity. Surely there is nothing so vulgar as commerce in the nearby village of Eastsound.

The little community is one of the few surprises that awaits summertime visitors.

Boaters can anchor south of the inner bay, off Indian Island and outside an area marked by a sign on the shore where dropping an anchor is prohibited to protect threatened eel grass. A few private mooring buoys inside the zone are excepted. It is okay to tie up at the county dock inside the protected zone, but overnighting here is not allowed.

Aerial view north over the village of Eastsound and north from Orcas Island to Sucia Island and other Boundary Islands near the Canadian border. (Photo by C. Duenas)

Indian Island, a little over an acre in size, was once named Jap Island. That was its official name, earned because a Japanese man lived alone there in a small cabin. Times changed, and the island was named for a different race.

Today, Indian Island is a marine health observatory under the auspices of the Center for Historical Ecology of the Salish Sea (Kwiáht), a non-profit which works with locals to protect the marine environment.

Chartlet from Salish Sea Pilot’s Cruising Guide to the San Juan Islands. Not to be used for navigation.

The island and the bay crawls and swims with all manner of strange critters, from grunt sculpins to decorator crabs. At low low tide, a sand tombolo connects the island to a small public park ashore.

The float at the county dock on Madrona Point typically has lots of room for dinghies to tie up. The float is removed in the off-season, so dinghies must go ashore on the beach just north of the county dock or up the park beach north of Indian Island.

Ashore, south from the pier, was an ancient burial site of the Lummi Tribe, and public access to the point has been blocked in a dispute about camping and partying on the sacred land.

The tombolo that reaches ashore from Indian Island begins to form as the tide falls in Fishing Bay. (Photo by Matt Marshall)

Turn north to take the road into town, where on a warm summer day a metropolis awaits. Eastsound feels big, the sidewalks and shops teeming with tourists and locals, happy faces and children struggling with ice cream cones. Provisioning is good, with a supermarket, pharmacy and hardware store. There are restaurants, galleries, a museum, even a Saturday farmers’ market. It is easy to spend the better part of a day here.

Fishing Bay offers no protection from the south. In unsettled conditions, the best shelter is found less than a mile to the southwest in Judd Bay, where there is dinghy access ashore from where it is a walkable distance to town.

The marvelous hiking opportunities within Moran State Park are best accessed from Cascade Bay, three nautical miles south.

(Eastsound is covered in Salish Sea Pilot’s Cruising Guide to the San Juan Islands.)

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Destinations: Eastsound feels bigger than it is

Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com…

Framed by Indian Island on the right and the county dock on the left, a trimaran has a view south down Orcas Island’s East Sound. (Photo by CAD Graphics Inc.)

Approaching the stillness of Fishing Bay and the cover of Madrona Point at the northern end of East Sound, a quiet tumble of stately homes along the shore suggests idyllic serenity. Surely there is nothing so vulgar as commerce in the nearby village of Eastsound.

The little community is one of the few surprises that awaits summertime visitors.

Boaters can anchor south of the inner bay, off Indian Island and outside an area marked by a sign on the shore where dropping an anchor is prohibited to protect threatened eel grass. A few private mooring buoys inside the zone are excepted. It is okay to tie up at the county dock inside the protected zone, but overnighting here is not allowed.

Aerial view north over the village of Eastsound and north from Orcas Island to Sucia Island and other Boundary Islands near the Canadian border. (Photo by C. Duenas)

Indian Island, a little over an acre in size, was once named Jap Island. That was its official name, earned because a Japanese man lived alone there in a small cabin. Times changed, and the island was named for a different race.

Today, Indian Island is a marine health observatory under the auspices of the Center for Historical Ecology of the Salish Sea (Kwiáht), a non-profit which works with locals to protect the marine environment.

Chartlet from Salish Sea Pilot’s Cruising Guide to the San Juan Islands. Not to be used for navigation.

The island and the bay crawls and swims with all manner of strange critters, from grunt sculpins to decorator crabs. At low low tide, a sand tombolo connects the island to a small public park ashore.

The float at the county dock on Madrona Point typically has lots of room for dinghies to tie up. The float is removed in the off-season, so dinghies must go ashore on the beach just north of the county dock or up the park beach north of Indian Island.

Ashore, south from the pier, was an ancient burial site of the Lummi Tribe, and public access to the point has been blocked in a dispute about camping and partying on the sacred land.

The tombolo that reaches ashore from Indian Island begins to form as the tide falls in Fishing Bay. (Photo by Matt Marshall)

Turn north to take the road into town, where on a warm summer day a metropolis awaits. Eastsound feels big, the sidewalks and shops teeming with tourists and locals, happy faces and children struggling with ice cream cones. Provisioning is good, with a supermarket, pharmacy and hardware store. There are restaurants, galleries, a museum, even a Saturday farmers’ market. It is easy to spend the better part of a day here.

Fishing Bay offers no protection from the south. In unsettled conditions, the best shelter is found less than a mile to the southwest in Judd Bay, where there is dinghy access ashore from where it is a walkable distance to town.

The marvelous hiking opportunities within Moran State Park are best accessed from Cascade Bay, three nautical miles south.

(Eastsound is covered in Salish Sea Pilot’s Cruising Guide to the San Juan Islands.)

Read More Here ….

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Raritan Marine Sanitation Device Specialists Discuss Amazing Tips While Traveling to Havana

Your Marine Sanitation Device Suppliers at Raritan Talk About the Excitement of Sailing to Cuba

Raritan Engineeringyour marine sanitation device manufacturers would like to share with you this week information regarding amazing tips while traveling to Havana.

Now that U.S. sailors can so easily can go to Cuba, the question remains should they go? I think most cruisers would not want to miss the chance. To explore the reefs of the fabled Jardnes de la Reina, to reach close along the green mountains between Punta Maisi and Boracoa, to wander the streets of La Habana- what more could the cruising life offer than to explore far (and not so far) corners of the world under sail?

If navigation worries are what's holding you back, you need not be overly concerned. One of the unexpected benefits of Cuba's Soviet experience is the GPS-accurate surveys of the island. This does not mean that you can steer blindly through passes by watching your chartplotter cursor, but it does mean that there are surprisingly accurate charts and guides to the area, in many cases more accurate than our own.

Your Marine Sanitation Device Experts Continue Discussion on Great Sailing Tips You Might Need While Sailing to Cuba

Your marine sanitation deviceprofessionals talk about how it is from the publishers of the Waterway Guide, which was highly rated in our most recentcomparison of guides to the Intracoastal Waterway.The Waterway Guide has a relatively strong online component with an active community of contributors, so even if you don't buy the guide, you can use their w ebsite for updates on marinas and other relevant information.Wally Moran, a regular contributor to the Waterway Guide with multiple trips to Cuba under his belt (he is a Canadian citizen), contributed much of the information to the guide.

It covers the north and south coasts of western Cuba, describing the counterclockwise route around the western tip, Cabo San Antonio. The book is 224 pages long and filled with dozens of detailed chartlets and specific navigation instruction. Offering tips on everything from where to buy fresh-baked bread, to making windward progress along the coast, it is about as good a combination of navigation/travel guide as you'll find for cruising.

Cuba: A Cruising Guideby Nigel Calder ($57) is the oldest book in our library. Published in 1999 by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson, the same publisher of Don Street's familiar guides to the Caribbean, this is the thickest guide to the area, with detailed descriptions of anchorages, even ones that the othe r guides miss. It is, as far as I know, the only English-language cruising guide that covers the entire island.

Buying all three books costs close to $150. If I were to skip one to save money, it would be the Waterway Guide, although it covers east coast entry points that Barr's book omits, so if you are coming down the waterway and through the Bahamas, it is worthwhile. Certainly, you could get by with Calder's book alone, but Barr's updates come in handy and her chartlets are well rendered.

If you want to dip your toe into the Cuba cruising without spending a dime, there is also a free guidebook online.

Finally, for word-of-mouth updates for cruisers who have been there, theSeven Seas Cruising Associationis a great resource. The organization held a gam late last year on cruising Cuba and offers a wealth of information for sailors.

Click herefor more information regarding marine sanitation devices and how to take care of all your marine sanitation supply needs by going to Raritan Engineering.

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Raritan Marine Sanitation Device Specialists Discuss Amazing Tips While Traveling to Havana

Your Marine Sanitation Device Suppliers at Raritan Talk About the Excitement of Sailing to Cuba

Raritan Engineeringyour marine sanitation device manufacturers would like to share with you this week information regarding amazing tips while traveling to Havana.

Now that U.S. sailors can so easily can go to Cuba, the question remains should they go? I think most cruisers would not want to miss the chance. To explore the reefs of the fabled Jardnes de la Reina, to reach close along the green mountains between Punta Maisi and Boracoa, to wander the streets of La Habana- what more could the cruising life offer than to explore far (and not so far) corners of the world under sail?

If navigation worries are what's holding you back, you need not be overly concerned. One of the unexpected benefits of Cuba's Soviet experience is the GPS-accurate surveys of the island. This does not mean that you can steer blindly through passes by watching your chartplotter cursor, but it does mean that there are surprisingly accurate charts and guides to the area, in many cases more accurate than our own.

Your Marine Sanitation Device Experts Continue Discussion on Great Sailing Tips You Might Need While Sailing to Cuba

Your marine sanitation deviceprofessionals talk about how it is from the publishers of the Waterway Guide, which was highly rated in our most recentcomparison of guides to the Intracoastal Waterway.The Waterway Guide has a relatively strong online component with an active community of contributors, so even if you don't buy the guide, you can use their w ebsite for updates on marinas and other relevant information.Wally Moran, a regular contributor to the Waterway Guide with multiple trips to Cuba under his belt (he is a Canadian citizen), contributed much of the information to the guide.

It covers the north and south coasts of western Cuba, describing the counterclockwise route around the western tip, Cabo San Antonio. The book is 224 pages long and filled with dozens of detailed chartlets and specific navigation instruction. Offering tips on everything from where to buy fresh-baked bread, to making windward progress along the coast, it is about as good a combination of navigation/travel guide as you'll find for cruising.

Cuba: A Cruising Guideby Nigel Calder ($57) is the oldest book in our library. Published in 1999 by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson, the same publisher of Don Street's familiar guides to the Caribbean, this is the thickest guide to the area, with detailed descriptions of anchorages, even ones that the othe r guides miss. It is, as far as I know, the only English-language cruising guide that covers the entire island.

Buying all three books costs close to $150. If I were to skip one to save money, it would be the Waterway Guide, although it covers east coast entry points that Barr's book omits, so if you are coming down the waterway and through the Bahamas, it is worthwhile. Certainly, you could get by with Calder's book alone, but Barr's updates come in handy and her chartlets are well rendered.

If you want to dip your toe into the Cuba cruising without spending a dime, there is also a free guidebook online.

Finally, for word-of-mouth updates for cruisers who have been there, theSeven Seas Cruising Associationis a great resource. The organization held a gam late last year on cruising Cuba and offers a wealth of information for sailors.

Click herefor more information regarding marine sanitation devices and how to take care of all your marine sanitation supply needs by going to Raritan Engineering.

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Raritan Marine Sanitation Device Specialists Discuss Amazing Tips While Traveling to Havana

Your Marine Sanitation Device Suppliers at Raritan Talk About the Excitement of Sailing to Cuba

Raritan Engineeringyour marine sanitation device manufacturers would like to share with you this week information regarding amazing tips while traveling to Havana.

Now that U.S. sailors can so easily can go to Cuba, the question remains should they go? I think most cruisers would not want to miss the chance. To explore the reefs of the fabled Jardnes de la Reina, to reach close along the green mountains between Punta Maisi and Boracoa, to wander the streets of La Habana- what more could the cruising life offer than to explore far (and not so far) corners of the world under sail?

If navigation worries are what's holding you back, you need not be overly concerned. One of the unexpected benefits of Cuba's Soviet experience is the GPS-accurate surveys of the island. This does not mean that you can steer blindly through passes by watching your chartplotter cursor, but it does mean that there are surprisingly accurate charts and guides to the area, in many cases more accurate than our own.

Your Marine Sanitation Device Experts Continue Discussion on Great Sailing Tips You Might Need While Sailing to Cuba

Your marine sanitation deviceprofessionals talk about how it is from the publishers of the Waterway Guide, which was highly rated in our most recentcomparison of guides to the Intracoastal Waterway.The Waterway Guide has a relatively strong online component with an active community of contributors, so even if you don't buy the guide, you can use their w ebsite for updates on marinas and other relevant information.Wally Moran, a regular contributor to the Waterway Guide with multiple trips to Cuba under his belt (he is a Canadian citizen), contributed much of the information to the guide.

It covers the north and south coasts of western Cuba, describing the counterclockwise route around the western tip, Cabo San Antonio. The book is 224 pages long and filled with dozens of detailed chartlets and specific navigation instruction. Offering tips on everything from where to buy fresh-baked bread, to making windward progress along the coast, it is about as good a combination of navigation/travel guide as you'll find for cruising.

Cuba: A Cruising Guideby Nigel Calder ($57) is the oldest book in our library. Published in 1999 by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson, the same publisher of Don Street's familiar guides to the Caribbean, this is the thickest guide to the area, with detailed descriptions of anchorages, even ones that the othe r guides miss. It is, as far as I know, the only English-language cruising guide that covers the entire island.

Buying all three books costs close to $150. If I were to skip one to save money, it would be the Waterway Guide, although it covers east coast entry points that Barr's book omits, so if you are coming down the waterway and through the Bahamas, it is worthwhile. Certainly, you could get by with Calder's book alone, but Barr's updates come in handy and her chartlets are well rendered.

If you want to dip your toe into the Cuba cruising without spending a dime, there is also a free guidebook online.

Finally, for word-of-mouth updates for cruisers who have been there, theSeven Seas Cruising Associationis a great resource. The organization held a gam late last year on cruising Cuba and offers a wealth of information for sailors.

Click herefor more information regarding marine sanitation devices and how to take care of all your marine sanitation supply needs by going to Raritan Engineering.

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Raritan Marine Sanitation Device Specialists Discuss Amazing Tips While Traveling to Havana

Your Marine Sanitation Device Suppliers at Raritan Talk About the Excitement of Sailing to Cuba

Raritan Engineeringyour marine sanitation device manufacturers would like to share with you this week information regarding amazing tips while traveling to Havana.

Now that U.S. sailors can so easily can go to Cuba, the question remains should they go? I think most cruisers would not want to miss the chance. To explore the reefs of the fabled Jardnes de la Reina, to reach close along the green mountains between Punta Maisi and Boracoa, to wander the streets of La Habana- what more could the cruising life offer than to explore far (and not so far) corners of the world under sail?

If navigation worries are what's holding you back, you need not be overly concerned. One of the unexpected benefits of Cuba's Soviet experience is the GPS-accurate surveys of the island. This does not mean that you can steer blindly through passes by watching your chartplotter cursor, but it does mean that there are surprisingly accurate charts and guides to the area, in many cases more accurate than our own.

Your Marine Sanitation Device Experts Continue Discussion on Great Sailing Tips You Might Need While Sailing to Cuba

Your marine sanitation deviceprofessionals talk about how it is from the publishers of the Waterway Guide, which was highly rated in our most recentcomparison of guides to the Intracoastal Waterway.The Waterway Guide has a relatively strong online component with an active community of contributors, so even if you don't buy the guide, you can use their w ebsite for updates on marinas and other relevant information.Wally Moran, a regular contributor to the Waterway Guide with multiple trips to Cuba under his belt (he is a Canadian citizen), contributed much of the information to the guide.

It covers the north and south coasts of western Cuba, describing the counterclockwise route around the western tip, Cabo San Antonio. The book is 224 pages long and filled with dozens of detailed chartlets and specific navigation instruction. Offering tips on everything from where to buy fresh-baked bread, to making windward progress along the coast, it is about as good a combination of navigation/travel guide as you'll find for cruising.

Cuba: A Cruising Guideby Nigel Calder ($57) is the oldest book in our library. Published in 1999 by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson, the same publisher of Don Street's familiar guides to the Caribbean, this is the thickest guide to the area, with detailed descriptions of anchorages, even ones that the othe r guides miss. It is, as far as I know, the only English-language cruising guide that covers the entire island.

Buying all three books costs close to $150. If I were to skip one to save money, it would be the Waterway Guide, although it covers east coast entry points that Barr's book omits, so if you are coming down the waterway and through the Bahamas, it is worthwhile. Certainly, you could get by with Calder's book alone, but Barr's updates come in handy and her chartlets are well rendered.

If you want to dip your toe into the Cuba cruising without spending a dime, there is also a free guidebook online.

Finally, for word-of-mouth updates for cruisers who have been there, theSeven Seas Cruising Associationis a great resource. The organization held a gam late last year on cruising Cuba and offers a wealth of information for sailors.

Click herefor more information regarding marine sanitation devices and how to take care of all your marine sanitation supply needs by going to Raritan Engineering.

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Raritan Marine Sanitation Device Specialists Discuss Amazing Tips While Traveling to Havana

Your Marine Sanitation Device Suppliers at Raritan Talk About the Excitement of Sailing to Cuba

Raritan Engineeringyour marine sanitation device manufacturers would like to share with you this week information regarding amazing tips while traveling to Havana.

Now that U.S. sailors can so easily can go to Cuba, the question remains should they go? I think most cruisers would not want to miss the chance. To explore the reefs of the fabled Jardnes de la Reina, to reach close along the green mountains between Punta Maisi and Boracoa, to wander the streets of La Habana- what more could the cruising life offer than to explore far (and not so far) corners of the world under sail?

If navigation worries are what's holding you back, you need not be overly concerned. One of the unexpected benefits of Cuba's Soviet experience is the GPS-accurate surveys of the island. This does not mean that you can steer blindly through passes by watching your chartplotter cursor, but it does mean that there are surprisingly accurate charts and guides to the area, in many cases more accurate than our own.

Your Marine Sanitation Device Experts Continue Discussion on Great Sailing Tips You Might Need While Sailing to Cuba

Your marine sanitation deviceprofessionals talk about how it is from the publishers of the Waterway Guide, which was highly rated in our most recentcomparison of guides to the Intracoastal Waterway.The Waterway Guide has a relatively strong online component with an active community of contributors, so even if you don't buy the guide, you can use their w ebsite for updates on marinas and other relevant information.Wally Moran, a regular contributor to the Waterway Guide with multiple trips to Cuba under his belt (he is a Canadian citizen), contributed much of the information to the guide.

It covers the north and south coasts of western Cuba, describing the counterclockwise route around the western tip, Cabo San Antonio. The book is 224 pages long and filled with dozens of detailed chartlets and specific navigation instruction. Offering tips on everything from where to buy fresh-baked bread, to making windward progress along the coast, it is about as good a combination of navigation/travel guide as you'll find for cruising.

Cuba: A Cruising Guideby Nigel Calder ($57) is the oldest book in our library. Published in 1999 by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson, the same publisher of Don Street's familiar guides to the Caribbean, this is the thickest guide to the area, with detailed descriptions of anchorages, even ones that the othe r guides miss. It is, as far as I know, the only English-language cruising guide that covers the entire island.

Buying all three books costs close to $150. If I were to skip one to save money, it would be the Waterway Guide, although it covers east coast entry points that Barr's book omits, so if you are coming down the waterway and through the Bahamas, it is worthwhile. Certainly, you could get by with Calder's book alone, but Barr's updates come in handy and her chartlets are well rendered.

If you want to dip your toe into the Cuba cruising without spending a dime, there is also a free guidebook online.

Finally, for word-of-mouth updates for cruisers who have been there, theSeven Seas Cruising Associationis a great resource. The organization held a gam late last year on cruising Cuba and offers a wealth of information for sailors.

Click herefor more information regarding marine sanitation devices and how to take care of all your marine sanitation supply needs by going to Raritan Engineering.

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Destinations: Eastsound feels bigger than it is

Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com…

Framed by Indian Island on the right and the county dock on the left, a trimaran has a view south down Orcas Island’s East Sound. (Photo by CAD Graphics Inc.)

Approaching the stillness of Fishing Bay and the cover of Madrona Point at the northern end of East Sound, a quiet tumble of stately homes along the shore suggests idyllic serenity. Surely there is nothing so vulgar as commerce in the nearby village of Eastsound.

The little community is one of the few surprises that awaits summertime visitors.

Boaters can anchor south of the inner bay, off Indian Island and outside an area marked by a sign on the shore where dropping an anchor is prohibited to protect threatened eel grass. A few private mooring buoys inside the zone are excepted. It is okay to tie up at the county dock inside the protected zone, but overnighting here is not allowed.

Aerial view north over the village of Eastsound and north from Orcas Island to Sucia Island and other Boundary Islands near the Canadian border. (Photo by C. Duenas)

Indian Island, a little over an acre in size, was once named Jap Island. That was its official name, earned because a Japanese man lived alone there in a small cabin. Times changed, and the island was named for a different race.

Today, Indian Island is a marine health observatory under the auspices of the Center for Historical Ecology of the Salish Sea (Kwiáht), a non-profit which works with locals to protect the marine environment.

Chartlet from Salish Sea Pilot’s Cruising Guide to the San Juan Islands. Not to be used for navigation.

The island and the bay crawls and swims with all manner of strange critters, from grunt sculpins to decorator crabs. At low low tide, a sand tombolo connects the island to a small public park ashore.

The float at the county dock on Madrona Point typically has lots of room for dinghies to tie up. The float is removed in the off-season, so dinghies must go ashore on the beach just north of the county dock or up the park beach north of Indian Island.

Ashore, south from the pier, was an ancient burial site of the Lummi Tribe, and public access to the point has been blocked in a dispute about camping and partying on the sacred land.

The tombolo that reaches ashore from Indian Island begins to form as the tide falls in Fishing Bay. (Photo by Matt Marshall)

Turn north to take the road into town, where on a warm summer day a metropolis awaits. Eastsound feels big, the sidewalks and shops teeming with tourists and locals, happy faces and children struggling with ice cream cones. Provisioning is good, with a supermarket, pharmacy and hardware store. There are restaurants, galleries, a museum, even a Saturday farmers’ market. It is easy to spend the better part of a day here.

Fishing Bay offers no protection from the south. In unsettled conditions, the best shelter is found less than a mile to the southwest in Judd Bay, where there is dinghy access ashore from where it is a walkable distance to town.

The marvelous hiking opportunities within Moran State Park are best accessed from Cascade Bay, three nautical miles south.

(Eastsound is covered in Salish Sea Pilot’s Cruising Guide to the San Juan Islands.)

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Destinations: All’s quiet in Filucy Bay

Here’s our latest installment from Three Sheets Northwest guest columnist Jim Burgoyne of SalishSeaPilot.com…

Vessels on anchor sit in stillness as evening falls on Filucy Bay. (Photo by cvj)

Our conversation falls away, running low on gas, the old fellow sighs, the dock cleat at his feet getting a little kick as we think of something more to say. I’m a lousy conversationalist at the best of times, even now when its my cruising adventures in Puget Sound that we are talking about.

But the old guy, white whiskers springing from everywhere, turns slowly, brow arched for the kill.

“Been to Filucy Bay yet?” he says.

Chartlet from Salish Sea Pilot’s Cruising Guide to Puget Sound. Not to be used for navigation.

And there it was. The question. Seems every time we fall into conversation with a mariner in the southern reaches of Puget Sound, and they discover you are from other parts, that question eventually pops up.

Somewhere between the first time it was posed and the twentieth, we sailed into lovely Filucy Bay at the southern end of Key Peninsula and then could answer, happily, that yes, of course we have been there.

Though once you have answered the question with the affirmative, and agreed how beautiful it is, and it is, the conversation falls away again. There’s not much more to say because, really, there’s not that much to do here, other than enjoy the dazzling view of Mount Rainier and be at peace.

There is sheltered anchorage throughout the bay, with convenient depths and good holding in firm mud. Excellent protection can be found from any direction the wind might blow. Generally there is lots of room to deploy generous scope, even at the north end of the bay which tends to be the most popular with its sedate surroundings.

Looking out over the Longbranch Improvement Club’s marina toward Mount Rainier. (Photo by Ronald Riggs)

As well, at the little village of Longbranch along the western shore is a pleasant marina operated by the Longbranch Improvement Club. It welcomes transient boaters, with power, water and engaging smiles.

The marina is really the only spot where boaters can go ashore. The country roads nearby offer a good opportunity to stretch your legs, but there is not much of particular interest to mariners within walking distance.

Filucy Bay is a good place to spend time alone, maybe work on that boat project that needs to be done, taking a break now and then to just breathe your surroundings in.

(Filucy Bay is covered in Salish Sea Pilot’s Cruising Guide to Puget Sound.)

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