Thursday, June 22nd Time: 1200 local (1900 UTC)
Position: 52’45 N 145’35 W
485 Miles South East of Homer Alaska Days run: 282 miles (noon – noon)
Boat speed: 12 kts Course 329T
Weather: Overcast Wind: 12-15 kts out of 200’T
News:
All kinds of action on watch during the last 24 hours as we saw our first
ship in five days yesterday afternoon on its way to Portland, Oregon.
Currently the 40m fishing boat “Leslie Lee” is 18 miles off our port side,
thanks AIS system. This morning we had two Dall Porpoises swim along side
the boat for a good 20 minutes. They have a stocky stark black body with
a white region on the belly and white triangle on the dorsal fin. These
porpoises definitely display the features that set them apart from dolphins
in that they have a chubbier shape, smaller size and blunt, rather than beak
like, snout. Interestingly the Dall’s don’t do much aerial work but
rather just break the surface at high speed sending a “rooster tail” of
spray aloft. Timoneer has 418 miles to go to reach the Stevenson entrance
and then another 65 miles NNE up Cook Inlet before we arrive in Homer.
John